aesthetic & thoughts

i respect john green a hell of a lot because he is using his fame to do something positive for the world more effectively than basically any other celebrity i know of. he didn't get famous for advocating for better healthcare for the poorest people in the world, he got famous for making youtube videos and writing novels, yet he has raised significant money and public awareness (which results in more funding too) to fight tuberculosis and maternal mortality where that is most needed.

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

protip for everyone, but mostly boys in this case:

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.