The Fuzzy-Headed Genius, Alan Turing

  

Alan Turing (1912-1954)

The prime "father" of the modern computer was a gay, British man who met a lot of problems in his life, but who succeeded in solving problems others had had to give up on. His work on what turned into the modern computer started with his wish to take on the Entscheidungsproblem that gave fellow scientists a headache. In 1936 he came into goal by inventing The "Universal Turing Machine" that had instructions in symbols that could manipulate other symbols. 

In WWII he made a valuable contribution as one of the codebreakers for the UK government, who worked at the special codebreaker center, Bletchley Park. It has been said that without him the war would have lasted several years longer. What he - and his colleagues, like his short timed fiancée, Joan Clarke - did was to work on decoding the German Enigma cipher machine so that the Brits could intercept Nazi-messages and decode them. Something which, of course, was of great value to them in the war. After the war he went on developing his computer ideas, which, however, led to something else: His studies in artificial intelligence. This part of his ongoing studies were made famous in a paper, he published in 1950 on a subject that must have been seen as rather far-fetched at that time: "Can machines think"? His so-called "Turing test" was part of these studies as it was set to determine whether a machine could imitate human conversations.

Alan Turing has been estimated to have an IQ of ca. 185, putting him in the top 0.1% of the British population. Always thinking and studying, he came up with many new ideas and inventions all through his life, but in some respect he proved to be the "fuzzy professor" of many hilarious cartoons: Fearing a Nazi invasion he bought silver bars for what may have been most of his money. The reason for this was, that he wanted to shield them from the Nazis by burying them somewhere only he knew. However, he sort of forgot where that safe place was, and he seems to have had problems with decoding the code for it, so the silver may still be hidden somewhere in the underground of England.

Anyway, in 1950 he was accused of what was considered a criminal offense at that time: A sexual relationship with a man. He was given the choice of undergoing a hormonal treatment to reduce his "sinful libido" or go to jail. He chose the medical treatment, and I suppose it may have had a negative effect on him, maybe even leading to his death by what is considered to be a suicide in 1954. It took many years for the State to pardon him for his "gross offense", as it didn't happen until 2013 after a campaign to recognize him as a national hero. Four years later the same kind of pardon was given to all gay men/people who had been convicted for homosexuality.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29840653

 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing 

 

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The Fraudulent Schemes of Violet Charlesworth

 

A beautiful woman, but I think that's a small ironic smile. Maybe my knowledge of whom - and what - she was makes me see something that's not there, but no matter what, this photo of Violet Charlesworth (1884-some time after 1912) strikes me as a nominator of smartness, irony and the special pride known as arrogance. However, other people would most likely have felt a certain shame at being and doing what she was and did, but that I see nothing of in her portrait: She loved to fake whatever she set her mind to fake, including her own biography, her character - and her non-existing wealth.

She was an Englishwoman with a proclaimed love for Scotland, (which may have been a pretence!). For several years she defrauded people to believe that she was a very wealthy heiress who would soon inherit a substantial fortune. That was absolutely not true, but people believed her and her fabricated identity as a woman of a good, rich family. Why? Well, she was pretty and charming. Also, she appeared to be of a certain social standing. The reason for this pretence was to obtain loans and favors from those who were what she claimed to be, namely rich.

Many people must have been shocked when it was reputed that she had died in a freak car accident, when she and her car fell off a cliff and were swept away by the sea. However, some didn't believe in this quite convenient accident that sort of blotted her and her loans out - or so she thought. As her body was nowhere to be found, and there were no trustworthy witnesses, an investigation was started, and soon she was found for real, alive and probably thriving, in Scotland. In 1910 both she and her mother were charged with obtaining money under false pretences, and they were sentenced to five years of prison, but strangely enough after some time the sentence was reduced to three years. When she was released in 1912 she went back to Scotland, but from then on all traces of her and her life have been missing. Weird? Yeah, but also very interesting because it can't have been all that easy to make herself "invisible" as her trial had made her quite famous, both within and outside of Britain.

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grj1gpe2ro 

 

https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=site-of-violet-s-leap-penmaenbach 

 

https://geoffbrookes.co.uk/violet-charlesworth/ 

 

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"The Innocent One": Short story by Else Cederborg

 

AI-picture by Else Cederborg

 

The Innocent One

The pressure on her arm was surprisingly tight. Then there were the fierce wrigglings and kicks. All that, including the screaming and the mouth like an "O" with rage and disgust in that small, perfectly shaped, but by now reddish face, was evidence that this very, very young lady had what was needed and that she would never become like her mother even before she got sick.

Doreen-Marie was the child's name, but in looks and in actions she was more like the brave and headstrong heroines of the past, even relentless like a born Amazon warrior-queen.

Being her great-aunt was more and more becoming a pleasure, and the adoption a dream that came true. This was even better than giving birth herself, the new mother of the child thought. The only tag was the father of the baby because unknown DNA is like a hidden and disguised bomb, waiting to explode. Who knows what's in a string of inherited character traits when the owner of it is unknown?

Yes, this pretty, wild and wonderful firecracker might easily have ended up as a blood clot in a pan. No wrigglings, no kicks or fierce stare at the one who attempted to hold her as she, who was actually much too young to as much as walk, wanted to run and have fun on her own.

When her unwanted presence was detected by the doctors of her very young mother, it had been too late to turn what was now a living child into a shady memory of abuse and mystery. The child, this innocent troublemaker, had grown to become a demanding wonder, always hungry, always on the alert to obtain what she needed to grow even more. And who gave it to her? At first the personnel at the orphanage, those who had wanted to give her away to the first, the best individual who wanted her.

One of those who really did want to give her a home was the woman who now was holding her so lovingly, actually her great aunt, and she won this small treasure, but then didn't her wealthy and well-connected family always win? No, when the girl who was to give birth to this child was hit by a run-away car and lost her identity in a severe brain-damage they didn't win anything except a very young woman suddenly turned into a 5 year old girl. The driver was never found, never prosecuted or sentenced and nobody knew who he was.

Neither did anyone know, or even guess, the name of the unknown man who was responsible for the birth of this small, wild, and beautiful addition to an old family. Who had abused, seduced or lured her young mother into sexual acts that had lead to this unexpected birth? Who had DARED to approach the brain-damaged daughter of the rich, old family? Nobody knew, but they guessed at some pedlar, or perhaps a servant. Seeing her perfectly shaped baby face didn't lead to any clues, but it did give rise to new questions: Who was she, this fairy, this small angel from nowhere? And, what was even more important, did it really matter when the child was as healthy and beautiful as this baby?

Her adoptive mother sat down and watched her given daughter closely, quite amazed at the love she felt for what she saw, each and one unknown feature, mixed with her own strong family traits. The child looked back at her, cocking her head a little as if she herself was deliberating something important and was browsed her features to find an answer to a delicate question, most likely something like e.g. this one: "Who is this old woman? Should I accept such a strange looking one as my mother?"

Her puckered brow made her look so funny, like a very old, wise school-marm, that her adoptive mother couldn't help laughing out loud. The child caught on to this rippling sound and started to laugh herself. Mother and daughter looked at each other, eye to eye, laughter to laughter, and their inner beings interlocked like two hands meeting in a handshake.

"Oh yes," the mother thought, "no matter who you are, you're a gem, no doubt about it, and we are a team against all the world, should they be prejudiced against us."

As to the child, then her beautiful, blue eyes grew even bigger with delight, and now she contemplated her new mother, with pleasure, yeah even with happiness. No more kicks, no more screams, at least for the time being, only pleasure and contentment at sitting on the friendly lap of this woman. 

 

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And, by the way, I'm, still for Roe, and a woman's free will to choose. However, even so, I'm not blind to the fact, that a choice isn't something lightweight, but that's the case in most choices. What may be best for the one, may be a great loss in someone else ....

 

Battling The Penis

 

In the early 1900s, women were expected to be obedient, loyal and self-sacrificing wives to their husbands, and to their fathers or brothers before marriage. Most of them complied, probably even finding some kind of relief in taking on traditional female roles. However, some rebelled against societal norms, demanding respect from the men in their lives - or maybe even freedom from what can only be labelled as male suppression. As it is, the main symbol of male power in a Patriarchy is the male member: The penis, which in a weird-looking, but not quite illogical manner, may even attain the status of a "rival" = "He loves his penis more than he loves me" or "he uses it as a weapon against me". That's why the penis has been targeted by women out for revenge, like in the 1990s when Lorena Bobbitt made headlines by severing her sleeping husband's penis with a kitchen knife. Luckily for John Bobbitt his penis was saved by surgery, and to prove that he "still was a true man" with a functional penis, he appeared in two pornographic films. 

Now, WHY would Lorena do something like that to her sleeping husband? Well, she alleged that he had raped and abused her i so many ways for years, and that now she had had enough. After being aquitted by "reason of insanity" Lorena started a foundation for domestic abuse victims and their children. In 1995 she divorced John - or he divorced her, I'm not sure of which, but divorced they were ....

 

However, long before Lorena Bobbitt made headlines another woman, Bertha Boronda, sliced off her husband's penis, and this time there was no saving it by surgery. It was lost once and for all, and she served five years in jail because she was fed up by having to put up with her husband's infidelity, lies, etc.. It seems that he spent time in a nearby brothel, which she didn't accept. That's why she attacked his member with a razor, which made him wake up and escape his infuriated wife. I take for granted that that was the end of the marriage ....

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/arts/television/lorena-bobbitt-documentary-jordan-peele.html 

 

https://www.jpost.com/science/article-873680 

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Was Queen Elizabeth I A MAN????????

 

Elizabeth I (1533–1603) in all her feminine finery

Well, her father, King Henry VIII, turned into a human OGRE - at least in my opinion - and her mother, Anne Boleyn, is reputed to have become a well-traveled ghost after being beheaded by her husband, who was desperate to have a son that might save his Tudor-dynasty. I agree that such a heritage might lead up to something very weird in anyone, man or woman, but first and foremost in those who don't like the strength and capacity in a female ruler like this particular English queen. 

The portraits of Elizabeth I doesn't suggest anything masculine in her looks, although she did "rule like a man". Nevertheless, the so-called "Bisley Boy"-legend gained interest, but not in her lifetime. No, it took several hundred years for this idea of an intricate conspiracy to dawn upon the misogynistic population, and the one who really set it going was the author who created "Dracula", Bram Stoker. He claimed that the real princess Elizabeth died at an early age, and that she was replaced by a boy at Bisley because the nanny of the young princess feared the wrath of the king when he found out. According to Stoker, that was the reason why Elizabeth I never married, as the intimacy of a marriage would have revealed her true gender.

However, during her lifetime, she was examined by several doctors, and none of them spoke of something "masculine" in her biology. Also, one of her suitors, The Duke of Anjou or King Philip II of Spain, bribed her laundress to let him know whether she menstruated or not. The laundress reported that she did, thus confirming her female biology. That may be a great disappointment to some misogynistic people of 2025, but that's something they will have to get over.

 

https://justhistoryposts.com/2022/11/28/a-brief-moment-of-history-was-queen-elizabeth-i-secretly-a-man/ 

 

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Ivana And Her Mysterious Death

 

Ivana and Donald Trump

Presumably the playboy-businessman, Donald J. Trump, was infatuated with the young Czech, Ivana Marie Zelnickova (1949-2022), who became his first wife in 1977 and the mother of his three eldest children, Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric. She had succeeded in leaving Czechoslovakia by marrying her platonic friend, the Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr in 1971, and moving to Canada she became a model as well as a ski instructor. In 1972 she attended Charles University in Prague and earned a master's degree in physical education. Actually, it seems that she was a dedicated career woman. She was always busy with her many projects which was one of the claims of Donald Trump in the interview with Martha Stewart when he was set to leave her for Marla Maples: She came out a genuine career woman, and apparently, he didn't like being married to someone like that. 

However, after marrying Donald Trump Ivana had become so much more than a model and a ski instructor: A businesswoman, the author of several books, including her autobiography, "Raising Trump", and she came to hold important key positions in the Trump Organization, becoming CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and manager of the Plaza Hotel. All of which she seems to have been good at, most likely even better than her husband.

The Trump-couple was very prominent in New York in the 1980s, but they were divorced in 1990, and he married his mistress, Marla Maples, who was the mother of his daughter, Tiffany. As to Ivana, then she too married again, namely four times in all: 1) Alfred Winkelmayr, 2) Donald Trump, 3) The Italian businessman, Riccardo Mazzucchelli, and 4) Rossano Rubicondi

Ivana and Rossano Rubicondi

She doesn't appear to me to lead a tragic or frustrated life as she did what she may have liked the most: Sprouting ideas for new enterprises, like e.g. developing her own lines of clothing, fashion jewelry, and beauty products as well as publishing several books. Also, she wrote an advice column for Globe called "Ask Ivana" from 1995 through 2010. Several rumors about her alleged close friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell have suggested that she took part in certain Epstein-activities, but how are we to know that they are 100% true? We don't ....

If Maria Farmer was witnessing something like that, it indicates much more sinister pastimes than having fun as a socialite and a successful businesswoman. Should it not be true, then it's slander.

Something else that may be slander is the allegations by Michael Wolff that Trump asked his good friend Epstein for advice on how to get rid of Ivana, especially about "pushing her down the stairs". As she eventually (allegedly) died from a fall on her stairs it's difficult not to take such an allegation into account, but only up to a point: The timeline doesn't fit the birth of Tiffany Trump on October 13, 1993, which was the presumed reason why Trump wanted to get rid of her so that he might marry Marla Maples. However, when Ivana died from her fatal - and freaky - accident on her stairs it happened a few days before she was to testify in one of the many major investigations against the Trump business, something which led to many suspicions, even today. On July 14, 2022, Ivana died at age 73 of blunt impact injuries to the torso after falling down steep spiraling stairs at her home. Was she pushed or did she stumble? That's up to all kinds of guesses, as there wasn't any thorough investigation. Something else that gives rise to suspicions of all kinds is the fact that she ended up in a deplorable grave on the golf course of her former husband, Donald Trump, "it shielded his beloved golf course from taxes, by virtue of it being a cemetery".

To me, this looks like some kind of revenge. Could it be because she told about his raping and mistreating her? Well, that's anybody's guess .... 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/deposition-trump-2-children-delayed-134548855.html 

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ive-seen-epsteins-photos-of-trump-with-topless-girls-author/ 

 

https://www.brainyquote.com/lists/authors/top-10-ivana-trump-quotes 

 

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/15/ivana-trump-donald-trump-wife-death-cause 

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/NJyjYWPo4QI?si=hm3zdDpUTzhieqeM 

 

https://www.reddit.com/user/SiteTall/comments/1nv5yra/michael_wolff_says_trump_talked_to_epstein_about/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button 

 

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The Gendered BUTT-Game

 

Looking at a picture of an elderly woman staring at a handsome and scantily dressed young man, many would ask: WHAT IS SHE DOING THERE????? Well, that’s a really silly question because to me that's obvious: She is admirering a well-formed male butt, maybe even dreaming of undressing it - and why not? If I was asked that question I would say, because it breaks up the gender-game of "each to his/her role", and she, being an elderly woman, is still not supposed to feel that way. However, surprise, surprise, women have sexual drives too, which also goes for this woman even though she may be too elderly to be considered "beautiful" by men.

In a Patriarchal society something like this will be seen as "natural", and if such a situation raises some eyebrows that will be all. Most will see it as some kind of funny "joke" on the "Men will be men"-theme. Age does slow down certain abilities in the male sex, whereas it often will work the opposite way with women. Being of an age when women were raised to believe that their status was built on male notions of their beauty and biological usefulness, one may argue that this not-so-young woman actually (re-)gains her individual personality through her desire. 

One more surprise: Women may use false eyelashes, get surgical alterations of feminine parts of their body, and, to their surprise and disappointment, men don't fall for any of it. But lo and behold, neither do many/most women go for fake muscle-push-up-Tarzans who are so deep into e.g. body building that they in reality are not able to fall in love with anyone but themselves. Who would most often win the seduction-game, Einstein or Tarzan? Well, not so pretty Albert did prove that women fell for him: