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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (lemmy.world)
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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 52 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Wait a second, Alan Turing was a queer icon?

Yeah. He's a queer icon, and a god among humans to computer science fans.

It breaks my heart that he didn't get to see the current era of queer federated computing. If there's any kind of after-life, Alan has got to be rooting for the Fediverse.