Tag: Alan Turing
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Alan Turing pardoned
(Decoding Alan Turing by tsevis, Creative Commons) We’ve long campaigned for the pardoning of Alan Turing on this blog, so glad to hear that as of today he is pardoned. 61 years too late, and why did it take so long? At least now the record is expunged, and that along with the freeing of…
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The new Turing?
Have to say Jack Andraka is such an inspiration – I’d heard that he’d invented a test for cancer at age 15, but didn’t know he was out and gay and is a fan of Turing. And now is targeting the eJournals and academic institutions to improve or provide open access…I hope he suceeds where…
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So maybe hip hop doesn’t hate me (or the rest of the LGBTQ)
I hadn’t heard of this or the sad case of Ce Ce Mcdonald but both are worthy…I know B Dolan via Sage’s Strange Famous, and I pretty much guess he knows about bears cos they did a Tour skit video in bed together 😉 but he’s straight, so always great to have the support. (via…
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Never forget
Just going down memory lane partly because me and Kirk were chatting about the mid 90’s gay scene with a bloke down the pub last week. It turns out the first gay club I went into is now a hipster ‘rock and roll pool hall‘. Hmm, like Coleherne toilets now being the gastropub kitchen, it’s…
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Happy Birthday Turing
(Alan Turing by Q{kb]j) Well accurately it was yesterday in the UK – but I accidentally celebrated it by meeting fellow podcasters at Podcrawl – meeting strangers who I otherwise would know by electronic means, who work in an electronic medium. In Soho! I think Mr Turing would be proud. I couldn’t go without saying…