By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026(And this requires those skilled practitioners to avoid the "automation blindness" that afflicts people who are asked to remain vigilant for things that seldom occur.) 5/ 1401
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026(This is the phenomenon that has turned every TSA agent into the water-bottle-detectingest motherfucker the human race has ever produced, who still misses 95% of the guns that red teams bring through the checkpoint): www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 6/nbcnews.comTSA Chief Out After Agents Fail 95 Percent of Airport Breach TestsA DHS investigation found security breaches that allowed undercover investigators to smuggle weapons through checkpoints at dozens of U.S. airports. 29412
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026More notable than the *Economist*'s faith-based predictions about the impending army of hyper-competent robo-lawyers is the magazine's proposed solution to this looming crisis: "stop creating entitlements that are ripe for AI-fuelled claims…prune the mass of procedural rights." 7/ 4411
Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026(A TSA agent in the US, who borrowed a match from me later outside the terminal, told me their job was not to catch people/things but to make people believe someone was trying to catch people/things) 3482
