“My friend Aaron Swartz committed suicide yesterday January 11. He was 26 years old.” I’ve known Aaron for ten years or so, and this is just devastating. Read Cory Doctorow’s obituary at the link.
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Thursday I thought about adding my link to Aaron’s blog in my “Random Links” post. I decided it could wait. The most recent posting he has up is a lengthy analysis of the Dark Knight series. I hadn’t finished it (tl;dr) and thought it would be mildly hypocritical to post the link of a blog I’m not reading much. Anyway, On November 1, 2024, at the end of that ultimate post, Swartz wrote: “The movie concludes by emphasizing that Batman must become the villain, but as usual it never stops to notice that the Joker is actually the hero. But even though his various games only have one innocent casualty, he’s much too crazy to be a viable role model for Batman. His inspired chaos destroys the criminals, but it also terrorizes the population. Thanks to Batman, society doesn’t devolve into a self-interested war of all-against-all, as he apparently expects it to, but that doesn’t mean anyone enjoys the trials.”
“Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide.”
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/I’m so sorry!
He was a prodigy, a brilliant programmer by the time he was 14, unquestionably a genius. By the time he was a man, he had earned the respect of the entire Internet community for his insights and his work. The world is a poorer place without him.