Clockwork ☃️✒️

Fisico teorico fallito che prova a scrivere e insegnare. Sinistroverso, controverso e... mi sono perso. Chimerista perverso.

⚗️ PhD in fermionic superfluidity
☃️ Italian in Finland
🤹 Manic Juggler

Mi piacciono: 🦴 Neolitico, 📖 Libri, 🌱Permacultura, 🗺 Cosmopoiesi

Non mi piacciono: 💰 Capitalismo, 💳 Criptovalute, ⛽️ Crisi climatica, 🤖 AI

"It's not over as long as there's someone telling another story."

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🍝 Italiano
💾 English
🕯 Suomeksi

Pronouns: He/him
🍝💾 My books & Stories: https://clockwooork.github.io/index.html
🍝💾 Monthly Updates: https://t.me/aotnewsletter/
🍝 Collettivo Editoriale: http://edizioninovilunio.it/

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2026-04-06 14:48:27 UTC

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I've heard from a biologist friend who read the book that much of the hard science is handwaved. Haven't read myself (nor do I have microbiology knowledge in the slightest), but there's that

2026-03-22 12:27:29 UTC

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Hey there! Would I be able to request for ARC even if the review is not in English? Our collective writes review in Italian mostly

2026-03-22 08:19:45 UTC

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💾 After a couple months of "forced break", I can finally start editing #Kanteletar's Section B!
Some betareaders pointed out there were too many characters and the political conflict was sometimes unclear. Painting a community that navigates complex scenarios with multiple competing factions is quite hard to do on the page, but I'll do my best 😅
#Scifi #Solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday

2026-03-22 08:17:32 UTC

🍝 Dopo un paio di mesi di "pausa forzata", finalmente posso mettermi a editare la Sezione B di #Kanteletar!
Alcuni betalettori hanno segnalato troppi personaggi e un conflitto politico non sempre chiaro; dare l'idea di una comunità che naviga scenari complessi con molte fazioni è difficile da rendere su pagina, ma ci si prova 😅
#Fantascienza #Solarpunk #SolarpunkItalia

2026-02-26 05:06:09 UTC

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As someone who's learning how to teach science, the hardest part is to make kids understand I'm not telling things that are *true* but that we *think that work, most of the times*. It's a huge conceptual leap! 🥵

2026-02-12 15:58:09 UTC

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Sometimes I too worry (on the verge of 32) about "being late" or "acting like I'm still at uni" while all my friends marry or have kids and tell me how old they feel.
But big respect for you, using zoomer lingo like it's water! It might not feel like much, but that inspires me! Age is just a number, we don't need to act old if we're not.

2025-12-21 17:31:46 UTC

💾 Just in time to take part in #SolarpunkSunday: the page for my #wip, Kanteletar, is live!
https://clockwooork.github.io/kanteletar.html
Follow the story of a library across five centuries of future history, from the depths of the #ClimateCrisis in 22nd Century to Atlas' technoligarchy of the 24th Century; the neverending struggle of humanity in pursuit of cultural independence.
Currently one of five sections is complete; the second is underway!
PDF —> https://basket.the-wetlands.org/s/xdZCoA7Azg5nj98
EPUB —> https://basket.the-wetlands.org/s/YAWprSW69d87YiH

2025-11-29 10:25:01 UTC

🍝 Un amico sta facendo una ricerca universitaria sulla percezione della presenza di cittadini #stranieri sul contesto socio-culturale italiano, e ha bisogno di più risposte possibile!
Riusciamo a farlo girare il più possibile?
#Fedichiedi #Mastoaiuto #Fediverso
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcRHhk88v5L7uOXGVaceiOXNjLYVjmtTb4P5fKFKksXZoZWA/viewform

2025-10-17 12:22:27 UTC

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Oh you're from Tampere! Hopefully I'll do a good job painting your city's evolution 😁
Don't be afraid to point out if I get something wrong!

2025-10-17 11:30:37 UTC

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Thank you! 🤩
It's the story of a library that goes through five centuries (with one "section" each) that goes through the societal/political/technological upheavals of Finland and Europe as a whole.
The first Section A (set in 2067) is already available (although I have to fix a couple details), you can check it out here:
https://clockwooork.github.io/kanteletar.html

2025-10-17 11:21:33 UTC

💾 Had to tweak a little bit the structure for #Kanteletar's Section B, in order to feature the conflict between welware and authware more prominently.
Hopefully I'll be able to write it down through November. Can't wait to show you what I'm on.
🍝 Ho aggiustato la struttura della Sezione B della Kanteletar, per mettere al centro il conflitto tra authware e welware.
Spero di riuscire a scriverla a Novembre, non vedo l'ora di farvi vedere cosa sto preparando!
#Solarpunk #Writing #Fantascienza

2025-09-03 06:42:32 UTC

💾 I've been reading news of "massive #solar progress" in #India and #China and wherever, and I can't help but think that it could've very well happened 20 if not even 30 years ago. We had the technology and the materials.
It's happening now only because China almost singlehandedly started mass-producing panels, with govt funding that the #OilLobbies can't stop like they have in #USA or #Europe.
This energy transition is, in essence, a political move for hegemony.

2025-08-19 14:12:21 UTC

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I remember we used to have a Canadian in our online group whose nickname was Caramel, and she was awake at impossible hours considering the side of Canada she lived in.
So we started calling this "The Caramel Timezone", when you live as if your GMT was on the other side of the world 😂

2025-08-18 07:22:43 UTC

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Concerning class actions against enshittifying companies, I've recently watched this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UF_4gZclI
TLDW: Swedish gamer sues Mojang because they quote made-up ToS on in-game gun prohibition (but allow gambling and lootboxes), and because they threatened to delete users' accounts if they refused to migrate to Microsoft.

2025-07-18 17:21:10 UTC

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You know Slack? Same structure, but for gamers & zoomers

2025-07-18 17:03:33 UTC

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I must admit I get my fix of that thing from Discord, although it's mostly among writers rather than far right trolls 😅

2025-06-08 17:59:26 UTC

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Never create martyrs

2025-04-02 09:18:31 UTC

💾 Oh hey, I forgot to post it here but last week I wrote this:
What if reading #scifi made us immune against #SiliconValley propaganda?
https://noblogo.org/clockwork/science-fiction-as-societal-antibodies

2025-03-22 06:21:37 UTC

💾 People often think of #Solarpunk in terms of nature and degrowth (which isn't bad!), but data scientists rebuilding a public tool that was dismantled by the authorities? Punk af.
But the inevitable question arises: why is it harder to tell a story about this?
(I'll try to give my answer in the comment so I can let you think about it)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91294411/trump-removed-an-online-tool-that-predicts-your-climate-risk-rogue-data-scientists-rebuilt-it

2025-02-13 11:16:36 UTC

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Vediamo chi è la classe parassita al prossimo sciopero generale

2024-12-21 10:06:13 UTC

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With our collective, we were thinking of an article featuring book reviews (both positive and negative) made by humans and by GPT, to show that not only they are indistinguishable (and thus sites like Goodreads have become garbage dumps), but also that human-made reviews don’t actually say much most of the time.
Would that be a bad article, in your opinion?

2024-12-07 06:35:58 UTC

💾 I'm not one to brag, but a reader said this about the recent #Arcane #Solarpunk #Fanfiction I've been writing and I wanted to share it because it really warmed my heart 🥰
You can read it at this link [6 out of 8 chapters completed]:
https://basket.the-wetlands.org/s/cpWa8GXJdzg8qrX
https://cdn.sociale.network/media_attachments/files/113/610/139/572/406/495/original/7bdb7966545e1819.png

2024-11-22 12:46:47 UTC

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Il mio scetticismo deriva sempre dal fatto che queste ingiunzioni comunque non sono mai applicate, e se lo sono sono sempre vent'anni troppo tardi.
Per esempio, se Israele compie un genocidio l'UN non ha nessun mezzo per costringerlo a smettere; figuriamoci se ha mezzi per costringere uno stato ad arrestare un criminale di guerra.
È tutto un "fai questo, altrimenti..." ma non c'è un altrimenti, non c'è nessuna ripercussione dall'ignorare questi ordini.

2024-11-19 15:39:50 UTC

🍝 Passando a cose migliori: ho da poco finito "Lungo la Corrente" di Lorenzo Colantoni.
Un #documentario misto a #DiarioDiViaggio dalle Azzorre alle Svalbard, lungo il percorso europeo della Corrente del Golfo, che ne documenta gli impatti ambientali e sociali.
Estremamente reale, potente e soprattutto #solarpunk: mostra esempi di collaborazione, adattamento e commistioni tra ricerca scientifica e tradizione da ogni paese che visita. Grandissima fonte di ispirazione!
#Libri #Recensioni
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2024-11-15 07:41:27 UTC

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Sono assolutamente d'accordo con il ridimensionare le aspettative che si sono generate nei confronti della fusione, ma dovremmo continuare a finanziare e sperimentare l'uso di questo tipo di energia. "No Nuke" non si applica bene ai discorsi sulla fusione, secondo me

2024-10-26 05:49:52 UTC

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Minusta tuo on huono tutkimus; kysymys on epämääräistä ja vain pahentaa polarisaatiota. Tosi amerikkalaisittain.
Mutta ehkä voisi olla huono artikkeli hesarilta 😂

2024-10-25 16:16:39 UTC

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Sarà fantastico suggerire al governo di destra di costruire una rete energetica estremamente centralizzata, nulla potrà andare storto!

2024-10-20 17:29:58 UTC

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As a Finnish learner (I am struggling) I found that I rely a lot on a method called "logical analysis" that we learned in elementary school to understand Italian grammar. This is making it a lot easier to learn Finnish, since most Finnish cases translate 1:1 to Italian "complements" studied with logical analysis!

2024-10-10 16:34:40 UTC

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He's engaging in ragebaiting - if you don’t want people to be mislead, why would you start with "we all deserve death"?

2024-10-10 13:54:22 UTC

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I'm not reading all this, but would you really, seriously take global extinction before considering eliminating wealth accumulation? Unbelievable.

2024-09-04 07:55:29 UTC

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Tra questo e la percepità immunnità internazionale di Israele/Netanyahu, temo che i prossimi decenni saranno un fiorire di rogue states. Il rispetto delle leggi internazionali è caduto in basso, e ripristinare la fiducia nel funzionamento di queste istituzioni è difficile (se non impossibile).

2024-08-24 16:42:51 UTC

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La #10 non è vera anche per l'Ucraina?

2024-08-13 08:28:47 UTC

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I will read the article soon, but from experience I can tell you it's not heat on its own (we've had hot summers before) but its effects are magnified by the fact that our cities are barely livable spaces. Just slabs of concrete with no tree or shade or underpasses