A Lot of Our Closest People Have Turned Cyborg

How technologies of fake intimacy kill real friendships

Sarah Pessin
OneZero
Published in
4 min readNov 10, 2021

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I join John DeVore, Stephen Moore, and Matthew McFarlane in bemoaning the onset of Meta. The last thing we need is another ill-conceived way to leave reality behind. But to be honest, some of my friends have already left the building.

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Sarah Pessin
OneZero

@sarahpessin | sarahpessin.com | professor of philosophy | interfaith chair | University of Denver | Instagram civics_salamander & sarahpessin2020