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   Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿 (woodbark@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2026 23:15:21 JST Walkaway Friendly Localist 🌿

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   @adamgreenfield any thoughts about the upcoming Neuromancer series?

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2026 23:15:23 JST Adam Greenfield

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     What (and maybe all) I appreciate about “Foundation” in the end is a quality that emerges from Asimov’s original scenario: not “longtermism” as that commitment has come to be understood, but a care for spinal *continuity* under significant pressure.

     Too many of the things we invest our care in are built to flourish only for a brief moment in fashion, during a particular season of life, or in the happenstance constellation of a particular group of friends, lovers, comrades and interlocutors; our very politics commend to us the contingent and the projectual. It’s time to consider the design of lightweight armatures that can endure under pressure – structures and systems and practices that convey *just enough*, and can be sustained indefinitely.

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2026 23:15:24 JST Adam Greenfield

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     Compelling, adult SF on the small screen is, I’m fully aware, not an easy thing to pull off. But “Foundation” ain’t it.

     I miss “Westworld.” : . (

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 24-Aug-2026 23:15:25 JST Adam Greenfield

     Giving up on “Foundation” three episodes in. Each of these episodes has asked me to care about a completely different set of characters, none of whom is particularly interesting; the writing and acting are not great; and the production design, costumes and environments are consistently unappealing. Even the typography is bunk. It feels like there’s a certain amount of money on the screen, but to little effect.

     Having once written a short story featuring the collapse of a sabotaged space elevator, I thought this one was effectively presented and handled. But otherwise: a pronounced meh.