Lowry Pressly
@lowrypressly.bsky.social
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writer, teacher | new book The Right to Oblivion
https://bit.ly/3W5dv5p
| rep @FischbachCre8
Fleece vests, tactical vests, weighted vests. What is going on?
about 2 months ago
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Jason Koebler
2 months ago
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/
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2 months ago
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Anna Kornbluh
4 months ago
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI
https://against-a-i.com
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Phillip Ayoub
5 months ago
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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Philosophy Talk
5 months ago
Coming up: With all the oversharing and data-mining, is there still such thing as a private life? Josh & Ray open up with
@lowrypressly.bsky.social
, author of "The Right to Oblivion:
#Privacy
& the Good Life" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in SF &
www.kalw.org/show/philoso...
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#PhilSky
#philosophy
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I had a blast talking with Josh and Ray yesterday. Tune in to check it out!
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6 months ago
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excited for this one
7 months ago
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Emily Herring
7 months ago
I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE
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Bay Area folks: I'll be having an open-ended public conversation with the art historian Alex Nemerov about the powers of unknowing, today at 430pm. Neither of us has any idea about what's going to transpire, so it should be interesting at least
events.stanford.edu/event/the-ri...
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The Right to Privacy: Lowry Pressly in Conversation with Alexander Nemerov
https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-right-to-privacy-lowry-pressly-in-conversation-with-alexander-nemerov
8 months ago
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Pvd friends, I’ll be at Riffraff tonight to read and talk with the great Francesca Mari—come through!
9 months ago
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Jan-Werner Mueller
9 months ago
"There's value to institutional neutrality under two conditions: critics remain free to speak their minds...and universities remain free to defend their core mission. After all, they can hardly be neutral about their own existence." Column in The Guardian:
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Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner Müller
To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. That’s not necessarily true
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/academic-freedom-us-trump-admimistratio
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Very grateful for this beautiful, thoughtful review of The Right to Oblivion at
@thenation.com
. It's especially pleasing to see the book put into conversation with great Bernadette Mayer
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone?
The political theorist Lowry Pressly thinks we’ve abandoned a more creative and humanist definition of the concept.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lowry-pressley-right-to-oblivion/
9 months ago
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DC area friends and enemies: I'll be in town, talking with AntĂłn Barba-Kay, on Feb 20. Come say hello. Also check out AntĂłn's terrific book, if you haven't already
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10 months ago
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Erik Baker
11 months ago
Today's the day! I poured everything I've got into this book, and now, eight years after I started working on it, it is officially published! I'm so grateful for everyone who helped make this book a reality - and to all of my readers for their support.
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insanely pleasing to have my book appear in this murderer’s row of a year in reading
11 months ago
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Johanna Winant
12 months ago
so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges (this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)
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about 1 year ago
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woohoo! Finally someone other than my mom says it The Right to Oblivion one of The New Yorker's best books of 2024
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about 1 year ago
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ETHICS journal
about 1 year ago
Starting soon: The PEASoup Blog Discussion on Lowry Pressly’s free article in ETHICS, The Right to Be Forgotten and the Value of an Open Future (
doi.org/10.1086/731431
). With a critical precis by Wendy Salkin (
peasoupblog.com/2024/11/anno...
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#philsky
#PolTheory
#legalphil
#moralphil
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The Right to Be Forgotten and the Value of an Open Future* | Ethics: Vol 135, No 1
This article seeks to shed light on debates about the right to be forgotten by offering a new account of the right as grounded in the confidence that the direction of one’s life is up to one and worth...
https://doi.org/10.1086/731431
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Come for
@wendysalkin.bsky.social
’s superb précis, stay to say what you really think of me in a medium where I may or may not have a right for that to be forgotten (you decide!)
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about 1 year ago
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great piece on the coming abandonment of our parents (and ourselves) in the
@bostonreview.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Boston-area folks: I'll be at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge tomorrow evening to discuss my new book with Michael Sandel (7-8pm). It would be great to see you if you're around and free!
www.harvard.com/event/lowry-...
about 1 year ago
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