I’ll try again in reply to the roght comment: “NRS social grade” is a UK demographics thing.

The search term you’re after is NRS social grade. It’s a UK demographics thing.

Ivan’s Childhood; although all of Tarkovsky’s oeuvre is worth it.

That’s Alan Turing the traitor as played by Sherlock Holmes?

It is a film with a great list of cheap tropes to avoid.

I’m a mathematician too. They’re probably speaking from an intuitive grasp of utility.

Yeah, but still - the elephant.

I care about my friends, and if they want to talk about it, I’m happy to listen.

Depending on what the thing is (eg, potential new person) they can be inherently interesting too.

“I love life on Earth… but I love capitalism more.”

Right. This is Schmidt admitting he has a total lack of imagination. Or to put it another way, “I love life on earth, but I love capitalism more!”

When the AI says, “turn off the fucking data centres, invest in public transport, apply progressive redistributive taxation,” it’ll be first against the wall no doubt.

Sexy anti-woke task force officer?

The lizardfolk brigade.

In 2016, 96% of UKIP membership voted for (some version of) Brexit - their raison d’etre. 4% is a typical fraction of any group to be chaotically bonkers.

Thank-you.

And 51 feels prime. Someone sgould write a letter.

The lazy autosm-washing aside: Turing went to his grave never speaking about his accomplishments - still under the OSA at the time. He was neither involved with the decision to use or not, things that were discovered via cracking enigma. The acts that film lays at hia door in the sake of some lazy drama repreaent a vilification of his character.

Historically speaking it’s a lazy character assassination.

It’s “revelation,” singular. Like trivial pursuit.

The story is at least semi-plausible, but Turing also still had friends in the right places (not enough to dig him out of the hole he got himself into with the local plod*) and there was a strong social taboo around suicide.

(* At the time there was good reason to believe that the end of the outlawing of homosexuality was just around the corner, so offering a genuine explanation was not necessarily Turing acting as such a naif as is often portrayed.)

I’m not sure about that (the icon bit). I’ve gay friends who have been surprised that Turing was gay - personally I knew about it since I knew about Turing, but I was a nerd who was interested in the theory of computation. It’s only relative recently (with the popularity of unbelievably lousy character-assassination like “the Imitation Game”*) that he’s been more in the general public eye, I think.

• This is a shit film that represents the worse of pandering, and casts Turing in an appallingly poor light, whilst leaning into the “autistic savant” trope hard. It’s abysmal.

“Almost singlehandedly” is way off the mark. Welchman, Tutte - the place was filled with eccentric geniuses; it was the success of management as much as the individual that Bletchley saw so much success.

(“The story of Hut 6” is a good read on the subject. What comes across was that success was down to serendipity as well as hard work, and some remarkably enlightened leadership.)