Official Statement from the Family and Partner of Aaron Swartz:
Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing.
Aaron’s insatiable curiosity, creativity, and brilliance; his reflexive empathy and capacity for selfless, boundless love; his refusal to accept injustice as inevitable—these gifts made the world, and our lives, far brighter. We’re grateful for our time with him, to those who loved him and stood with him, and to all of those who continue his work for a better world.
Aaron’s commitment to social justice was profound, and defined his life. He was instrumental to the defeat of an Internet censorship bill; he fought for a more democratic, open, and accountable political system; and he helped to create, build, and preserve a dizzying range of scholarly projects that extended the scope and accessibility of human knowledge. He used his prodigious skills as a programmer and technologist not to enrich himself but to make the Internet and the world a fairer, better place. His deeply humane writing touched minds and hearts across generations and continents. He earned the friendship of thousands and the respect and support of millions more.
Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.
Today, we grieve for the extraordinary and irreplaceable man that we have lost.
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Aaron’s funeral will be held on Tuesday, January 15 at Central Avenue Synagogue, 874 Central Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois 60035. Further details, including the specific time, will be posted at http://rememberaaronsw.com, along with announcements about memorial services to be held in other cities in coming weeks.
Remembrances of Aaron, as well as donations in his memory, can be submitted at http://rememberaaronsw.com
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“Technology has democratized carnage…When that Constitution was written, people had muskets.” - Jon Stewart
Stefon’s guide to New York (larger version here)
This is the first time in the history of the world where the map maker is worth more than the territory that it’s mapping.
Jeff Bezos on Google, as recalled by a former Amazon executive to Reuters. (via parislemon)
Great quote.
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We made goat cheese stuffed chicken with prosciutto and sage leaves
4 thin cut chicken breasts, boneless, skinless
Cup of flour
Cup of breadcrumbs
2 eggs
4 tbsp vegetable oil
4 tablespoons of goat cheese
4 fresh sage leaves
4 thin slices of prosciutto
Rub oil on chicken, dredge in flour, pat off excess flour. Scramble the eggs, dip chicken in eggs, drip off excess and then dredge in breadcrumbs. Spread goat cheese on prosciutto slices and place sage leaf on prosciutto. Place prosciutto on one chicken breast and place another breast on top like a sandwich. Place 2 tbsp oil in pan, heat at high flame to warm oil but not to smoke. Oil is ready when a drop of water sizzles on pan. Place chicken in pan, heat on each side for 1 minute and then cover pan for 3 minutes to cook chicken evenly. Serve.
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Talking cool new technology we might see at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show with Sam Biddle of Gizmodo on All Access with Katie Linendoll on Spike TV
The big unanswered question about Sullivan’s business model is how the economics are going to play out. He seems to have brought in about $100,000 today, from loyal readers — that’s about 4,000 subscribers off the bat. But that $100,000 is going to go fast. Sullivan is coming off a fat contract at NewsBeast, signed when Tina Brown was flush with lots of Barry Diller cash. He almost certainly couldn’t get her to agree to replicate that contract when it came up for renewal, so it’s hard to know how much money he’d receive if he stayed at the Beast. But my guess is that Sullivan wants the staff of seven, including two paid interns, to earn somewhere in the neighborhood of $750,000 a year between them, plus benefits. Add in what Sullivan lumps under “legal, technological and accounting expenses”, and you’re well into seven digits. So while today’s haul is impressive, Sullivan is going to have to keep those subscription revenues coming on a pretty steady basis, and he’s surely targeting a paying subscriber base of at least 50,000 — about 5% of what he calls his “unofficial staff of around a million unpaid obsessives”.
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