Irish speaker/writer; tech, politics + the future. Hope's not a 'nice to have'. It's our moral duty. she/her http:// mariafarrell.com "We need to rewild the internet": https://www. noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild -the-internet/ "Your platform is not an ecosystem", https:// crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/y our-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/ Fiction: "Burning Men" https:// westerlymag.com.au/burning-men -by-maria-farrell/
Irish speaker/writer; tech, politics + the future. Hope's not a 'nice to have'. It's our moral duty. she/her http:// mariafarrell.com "We need to rewild the internet": https://www. noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild -the-internet/ "Your platform is not an ecosystem", https:// crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/y our-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/ Fiction: "Burning Men" https:// westerlymag.com.au/burning-men -by-maria-farrell/
On the vanquishing, for now, of chat control:
"if we didn’t have to expend most our energies saying ‘No’ to this stupid, ghastly shit, and saying ‘No’ to the stupid, ghastly shit of the tech oligarchs, what might we have built instead? How productively and joyfully could we be spending our lives?
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/09/delighted-to-be-proved-wrong/