Better than doing this is to email the author and ask for a copy. It's their work, and they usually (maybe always?) have no financial stake in the gated access which dominates academic publishing. I've had success using this method to read papers to which I did not have access through a paid service.

I think it's an affectation more than anything else. For an educated person typing on devices with, at a minimum, autocorrect for capitalization, I think it has to be a conscious choice. The worst part of me says it is ego/arrogance played off as a casualness or being beyond triviality.

> typing on devices with, at a minimum, autocorrect for capitalization,

posting from a windows laptop and Firefox, i get no autocorrect for grammar like capitalization. only firefox was detected as a work that needed to be capitalized.

Agreed.

"Look, world, I care so little about being dumped, I don't even need to make an effort. Plus, I've got brains and more money than I can count."

Next level: Bond villain.

Maybe if all his posts before today weren't all lowercase.

That makes it even worse. So well-known and so much responsibility, yet so little care. If he can't even be professional when tweeting, why should we trust him with more? Probably good he's gone.

or maybe they know that using capital letters and such is just a convention that doesnt hinder understanding of text.

if you could read my comment then i've proven my point.

> Experiences like that, seeing human lives wasting on the pavement daily, might seem extreme and definitely foreign to people from, say, San Francisco. Still, if you know about human tragedy directly, you prefer to live somewhere that addresses that.

Not to detract from your other points, with which I agree, but do you mean 'might seem familiar to people from, say, San Francisco'?