Crisis averted! Production on the remaining episodes of Season 3 of Apple TV's "Foundation" will resume March 6 after a production shutdown due to budget and other issues. A casualty of the cuts is David S. Goyer, who will complete his writing services and remain as exec producer, but will not direct any further episodes of Season 3. #Foundation#AppleTV#SciFi#Entertainment#Television#TV#Streaming
In addition to my love of things #stochastic, I'm also deeply fascinated with #permanence, especially in the form of #writing. When I was young I was always imagining the kind of person who magically figured out that you could make black marks on stone, or cuts in wood, or whatever you liked translate to words. What a genius she must have been! (Yes, in my imagination it was always a woman.) People often claim that agriculture was the #foundation of #civilization. I disagree. It was permanence and precision in #communication that is the foundation of civilization. Writing, in short.
This is why I collect interesting forms of writing (like the bamboo slips I've shared in the past) as well as interesting or beautiful tools of writing. Today's little photo-essay is about the latter.
This is a so-called "eternal pencil". I have several of them, but this one I got because it's just so beautiful as well as practical. Details in the alt text as usual.
(Mastodon users will have to click through to see all the photos.)
I have to watch some of their other shows but either way just #foundation and #ForAllMankind are enough to justify a semi regular Apple TV+ subscription as a sci fi fan.
If another one or two hook my I bet I’ll be keeping it for more than a month or two at a time
❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
@josh As a kid I read the Foundation trilogy in the 70's, and I'm so happy that the TV series is going in different directions. The overall arc is following the books, but many of the details are different and I love it! One of my must-see programs (along with Rick and Morty, of course!).
Tempo czytania książek od końca ciepłej pogody spadło do zera prawie. Mimo to znalazłem chwilkę na dokończenie "Fundacji" Isaaca Asimova ! Cieszę się ,że ta klasyka trafiła w moje ręcę. Odczuwam tu troszkę vibe jak przy Diunie ale oczywiście to totalnie inne dzieła. Z podobnych motywów autor zwraca tu uwagę na taki "bigger picture" ewolucji świata, społeczności, zależności pomiędzy wydarzeniami, nieuchronności upadku imperiów. No i oczywiście odpowiednik przewidywania przyszłości w postaci nauki psychohistorii. Takie sci-fi wydaje się być najprzyjemniej strawne dla logiki bo stanowi alegorie wydarzeń na świecie. Bardzo przyjemnie się to czyta . Zasłużenie uważa się go za jednego z mistrzów.
"I was a shitty student of the church. I remember this homily, a parable. About how life is like collecting jewels in a bag, and in the end you don't want the bag to be full. You want it to be empty, because you've given them all away."
Hober Mallow, #Foundation, s02e08, The Last Empress
Looking to start new series for the coming year (second poll). Can you help me out #Bookstodon? Because you can only have for poll topics on Mastodon, this is the second poll asking for recommendations. I'll take the top two from both polls and do a final four poll. Go to the comments for a link to the first poll.
⭐️ Battle Star Galactica
⭐️ The Expanse
⭐️ Star Trek: The Next Generation
⭐️ Raised by Wolves
⭐️ Foundation
⭐️ Star Wars: The Mandalorian
⭐️ Star Wars: Andor
⭐️ Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi
⭐️ Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
Now onboard:
⭐️ Star Trek: Deep Space 9
⭐️ For all Mankind
The universe of Foundation is set to expand. Apple announced that the sci-fi streaming series, based on the classic stories by Isaac Asimov, will be coming back for a third season. There aren’t many details yet on what to expect — or when to expect it — but in a statement, showrunner David S. Goyer had this to say:...
Alexander Siddig Joins Apple’s ‘Foundation’ As New Series Regular In Season 3 (deadline.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’s Foundation is expanding its Season 3 cast with Alexander Siddig (Shantaram) joining the epic saga as a new series regular.
Apple’s sci-fi epic Foundation is coming back for season 3 (www.msn.com)
The universe of Foundation is set to expand. Apple announced that the sci-fi streaming series, based on the classic stories by Isaac Asimov, will be coming back for a third season. There aren’t many details yet on what to expect — or when to expect it — but in a statement, showrunner David S. Goyer had this to say:...