There ’s been a pretty big overflow of grief following Aaron Swartz ’s suicide , even from those whodidn’t actually know him . And the trend is continuing . Many investigator and academics are nowtweeting links to PDF file of their papersas a protection .
https://gizmodo.com/the-void-of-losing-someone-you-don-t-know-in-memory-of-5975463
At the time of his expiry , Swartz had been facing charge forattempting to publicly release donnish newspaper from JSTOR , and in a argument , his familyaccuses the intensity of the chargesfor bestow in part to his suicide . The show of support , consolidated under the hashtag#pdftribute , now imply hundreds of player work to make hundreds ( if not more ) papers freely available to the public , much as Swartz had been trying to do .
https://gizmodo.com/former-reddit-employee-charged-with-data-theft-5822681
There ’s yet to be any consolidated archive of the links or PDFs , but chatter on Twitter suggests that there are multiple party prove to organize one . The hashtag is now getting over 500 tweets per hr , so rounding up all those connectedness could essay to be difficult , but even with no hub of article ( yet ) , the tribute is making a splashing . [ NeuroconscienceviaTechmeme ]
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