Lowry Pressly
@lowrypressly.bsky.social
writer, teacher | new book The Right to Oblivion https://bit.ly/3W5dv5p | rep
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a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Being unable to tolerate frustration + chasing social media clout gotta be a big reason why ppl jumped on the gen ai machine to churn out slop
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks
Fleece vests, tactical vests, weighted vests. What is going on?
October 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Fleece vests, tactical vests, weighted vests. What is going on?
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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...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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.
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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...
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
weeeyyyyyyy
September 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
weeeyyyyyyy
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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
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
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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
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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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
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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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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....
#PhilSky #philosophy
#PhilSky #philosophy
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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....
#PhilSky #philosophy
#PhilSky #philosophy
I had a blast talking with Josh and Ray yesterday. Tune in to check it out!
This week we'll be recording an episode about "Private Lives" with Stanford political scientist @lowrypressly.bsky.social, author of "The Right to Oblivion."
Got questions about privacy and secrecy? Let us know, and we may ask your question on the show!
More at philosophytalk.org/shows/privat....
Got questions about privacy and secrecy? Let us know, and we may ask your question on the show!
More at philosophytalk.org/shows/privat....
May 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I had a blast talking with Josh and Ray yesterday. Tune in to check it out!
excited for this one
May 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
excited for this one
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I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE
May 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE
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...
events.stanford.edu/event/the-ri...
The Right to Privacy: Lowry Pressly in Conversation with Alexander Nemerov
events.stanford.edu
April 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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...
events.stanford.edu/event/the-ri...
Pvd friends, I’ll be at Riffraff tonight to read and talk with the great Francesca Mari—come through!
March 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Pvd friends, I’ll be at Riffraff tonight to read and talk with the great Francesca Mari—come through!
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"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:
Column in The Guardian:
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
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"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:
Column in The Guardian:
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...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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.
www.thenation.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
DC area friends and enemies: I'll be in town, talking with Antón Barba-Kay, on Feb 20. Come say hello. Also check out Antón's terrific book, if you haven't already
On February 20, please join The Privacy Center and the Department of Philosophy for a conversation with Antón Barba-Kay and Lowry Pressly (@lowrypressly.bsky.social), the authors of two provocative new books about the nature of digital technology.
January 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
DC area friends and enemies: I'll be in town, talking with Antón Barba-Kay, on Feb 20. Come say hello. Also check out Antón's terrific book, if you haven't already
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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.
January 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
insanely pleasing to have my book appear in this murderer’s row of a year in reading
December 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
insanely pleasing to have my book appear in this murderer’s row of a year in reading
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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)
(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)
December 15, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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)
(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)
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Wow, The Nonconformists was shortlisted for the AATSEEL prize for Best Book in Cultural Studies! (Cc: @harvardpress.bsky.social)
www.aatseel.org/about/prizes...
www.aatseel.org/about/prizes...
Prizes
The AATSEEL Publications Committee is responsible for overseeing the appointment of editors for the AATSEEL Newsletter and Slavic and East European Journal , and also for the award of prizes for publi...
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December 4, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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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
The Right to Oblivion one of The New Yorker's best books of 2024
Congratulations to @lowrypressly.bsky.social, author of The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life, for making The New Yorker's "Best Books We've Read in 2024" list!
Read more: tinyurl.com/y4deb9na
About the book: tinyurl.com/2z4sx8tk
Read more: tinyurl.com/y4deb9na
About the book: tinyurl.com/2z4sx8tk
The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
www.newyorker.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
woohoo! Finally someone other than my mom says it
The Right to Oblivion one of The New Yorker's best books of 2024
The Right to Oblivion one of The New Yorker's best books of 2024
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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...). #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil
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...
doi.org
December 3, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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...). #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil
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!)
Join our PEA Soup Blog discussion of @lowrypressly.bsky.social's excellent new article in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social, "The Right to Be Forgotten and the Value of an Open Future": peasoupblog.com/2024/12/the-...
December 4, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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!)
great piece on the coming abandonment of our parents (and ourselves) in the @bostonreview.bsky.social
"Introducing technology into my father’s care had a double effect:it alienated him from himself and from his family. It made all of us less human because [we] dealt with him in a less human way. He became an experiment.(...)My father doesn’t need me to count his steps. He needs me to walk with him."
"I brought technology into my father’s life to improve his health, but it soon became a lever of control." Omer Rosen on the seductions of medical surveillance:
November 25, 2024 at 7:40 PM
great piece on the coming abandonment of our parents (and ourselves) in the @bostonreview.bsky.social
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-...
www.harvard.com/event/lowry-...
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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-...
www.harvard.com/event/lowry-...