Sheril KirshenbaumDec 28, 2022

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science #HistoryRemix

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@Sheril
To me, the queen pardoning Alan Turing has always felt like adding cruelty to injustice. Aww, look how kind and forgiving the queen is!!!

Shouldn't she have been made to repent and ask forgiveness for the crime committed by her regime? Shouldn't her successor now be made to do that?

Dec 28, 2022 at 11:14pmWeb
Show threadlord pthenq1Dec 29, 2022

@feralthoughts @Sheril

Indeed. She should apologized to him.