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4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16
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/your-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/
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/
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/
@energisch_@troet.cafe @the_wub@mastodon.social yes, i''m with you in really not knowing how that would work and what lengths signal would have to go to, if any, to avoid having eu users. and which measures we could have taken to go on using it.
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/
RE: @mariafarrell@mastodon.social
Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry.
"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."
THANK YOU. Without Germany's support, Chat Control is dead in Council. For now at least.
Some serious introspection now needed by DG HOME for its antidemocratic draft law and illegal lobbying.
www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2025/1008_Chatkontrolle.html
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/
RE: @mariafarrell@mastodon.social
I'm told by @Privacymatters@mastodon.social that Germany has stayed strong and blocked the Council majority, so chat control is dead (for now)!
Thank you, everyone who's worked like a dog to stop this nonsense. Again...
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/
Gods I'm too fucking old and tired to rehearse the 'don't break E2E encryption' debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is 'client side scanning' of every European's device for CSAM, just in case.
I no longer make many arguments on principle. This open letter to the Irish minister who supports pre-emptive surveillance for everyone merely asks him to imagine how he'll feel when, inevitably, the powers are used against him: