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writer, teacher | new book The Right to Oblivion https://bit.ly/3W5dv5p | rep @FischbachCre8

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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

07.12.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 303    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7

Congratulations! Excited to read it

18.11.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How’s the novel? I’m interested but haven’t yet been able to get my hands on a copy

17.10.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fleece vests, tactical vests, weighted vests. What is going on?

09.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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...

30.09.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2251    πŸ” 1439    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 168

weeeyyyyyyy

22.09.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AGAINST AI

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

15.08.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 739    πŸ” 422    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 57
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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousandsβ€” major embarrassment to Orban

28.06.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 38592    πŸ” 8084    πŸ’¬ 503    πŸ“Œ 798
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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

26.06.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a blast talking with Josh and Ray yesterday. Tune in to check it out!

30.05.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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excited for this one

14.05.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!!

13.05.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Laura Loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Laura Loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

08.05.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2860    πŸ” 599    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 33

Love this one

17.04.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Right to Privacy: Lowry Pressly in Conversation with Alexander Nemerov

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...

01.04.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And tomorrow afternoon I’ll be giving the Odyssey Lecture at Brown ppe.brown.edu/events/odyssey
Come say hello!

18.03.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pvd friends, I’ll be at Riffraff tonight to read and talk with the great Francesca Mariβ€”come through!

18.03.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner MΓΌller To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. That’s not necessarily true

"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:

18.03.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Omg

26.02.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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...

24.02.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

DC area friends and enemies: I'll be in town, talking with AntΓ³n Barba-Kay, on Feb 20. Come say hello. Also check out AntΓ³n's terrific book, if you haven't already

27.01.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Peter!

15.01.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

14.01.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 4

…have you heard about this, drywall? nobody ever used that word before, and now the walls are wettt, can you believe it, wetttt wallllssssss, but we’re gonna get em dry again, drier than they’ve ever been…

04.01.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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insanely pleasing to have my book appear in this murderer’s row of a year in reading

27.12.2024 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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)

15.12.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 383    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8

Very interesting. Thanks for reading!

14.12.2024 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Peter! I’m very pleasured to hear that you’re enjoying the book. I’d be happy to talk to you!

14.12.2024 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for reading!

14.12.2024 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‰πŸΎπŸŽŠ

04.12.2024 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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