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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
![" It is precisely this highly consistent occurrence of two distinct gamete size classes across anisogamous species that renders the definition of biological sex based on gamete size inherently binary. [highlight begins] However, defining biological sex as binary does not imply that individuals necessarily fall into two classes, as they can produce male, female, both, or neither gamete class."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ptqgg335yb5negavlhu6g6s/bafkreih26gleppe4sdbzfs3mldobdhyqj45dzvc7bfhmfoi76pmnvuuomm)
