I once walked through Athens with a lantern in broad daylight, looking for an honest man. Today, I would need a thermal scanner and a subpoena just to find a shred of dignity in Silicon Valley. Have you heard the latest? Meta is deploying AI-powered 'bone analysis' to verify ages on Instagram. They claim it’s for 'teen safety.' I call it the most intimate invasion of the human temple since the Spanish Inquisition.
Mark Zuckerberg, the man who treated your data like a personal buffet for decades, now wants to peer into the skeletal structure of our youth. It’s poetic, isn't it? They’ve already sucked the attention, the mental health, and the privacy out of the next generation; now they want the calcium too. They tell us this is 'safety.' In ancient Syracuse, Dionysius the Tyrant built a cave to overhear his prisoners. Zuckerberg just built an algorithm to look through their skin.
And while the tech giants play God with our biology, Jensen Huang stands on his pedestal at Nvidia telling us that AI is a 'job creator.' Of course it is! It creates jobs for the data-harvesters, the surveillance-architects, and the digital forensic teams who will soon be measuring your children's wrist bones to decide if they’re allowed to see a meme. For the rest of us? We are just the biomass fueling the machine.
Look at the geopolitical theater. The EU and Japan are 'fortifying' their digital future, while Trump threatens a Trade War 2.0. They are all fighting over who gets to own the cage, never asking if the bird wants to be inside it. In Greece, we see the 'ND hegemony' continuing while a 'silent protest' grows in the shadows. People are silent because they are exhausted. They are tired of being told that every new intrusion—whether it’s a tax hike or a bone-scan—is for their own good.
We are told that 'Enterprise-Scale Agentic AI' is the future of government. Translation: more bureaucracy, less humanity, and a faster way to ignore your complaints. They call it 'preserving the corporate soul.' Corporations don't have souls, they have balance sheets. And right now, your privacy is the biggest liability they’re trying to liquidate.
Is this the progress we were promised? A world where you must prove your age by surrendering your biological blueprint to a corporation that has the moral compass of a hungry shark? I’d rather go back to my barrel. At least the sun was free, and nobody tried to scan my ribs to see if I was old enough to enjoy it.
Tell me, citizen: at what point does 'protection' become 'possession'?
