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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (media.piefed.social)
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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

He was using a series of chemicals, including cyanide to make electronics with deposited gold. He was not proficient at it and colleagues noted he was experimenting and he frequently made mistakes.