Context: During WW2 Alan Turing was essential to the efforts to break the Nazi Enigma code. In 1952 the British government chemically castrated him for being gay, in 1954 he took his life.
Isn't the "took his life" thing disputed?
I heard there's some evidence that the cyanide was part of a natural process that he couldn't have known about and several of his close friends don't think it was suicide.
Turing didnt code anything until 1954 when he wrote a program so buggy someone else had to entirely re-write it. He didn’t write anither program. His work focused on theoretical computing.
The UK government forced the widely regarded father of theoretical computer science to take estrogen
stoneobelisk showing they are an ally, by not using the appropriate historical slur they used to sentence Alan😭 with.
britain for no good reason: lethally forcefems their lead computer scientist
I don't know if Veritasium is a reliable source, but the recent video on Alan Turing made it seem like Alan had a good job and happy life for several years after WW2. Not defending that the UK government were pieces of shit, but I don't think it's accurate to say they turned on him "the second WW2 was over".
Edit: I checked another source. It was early 1952 that he was caught by the police in a homosexual relationship. So I guess he had around 6 happy years after the war.
That title chefs kiss
my first idea for a username was QueerQuinn, so reading QueerCoded is kinda weird to me lol
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