The end of screening shoes at airports was long overdue, Ian Bogost writes, but it also reads as populism theater—an act that gives citizens what they want without really democratizing the system.
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I will still be barefoot! They'll have to pry my shoes from my cold, dead hands... because they will NOT be on my feet!!!
jul 11, 2025, 3:17 am • 0 0 • view
I've been thinking a lot lately about what I want my inevitable death of despair to look like (definitely opioids smuggled in with some Temu), but it's fun to think that improvised footwear explosive device at 40k feet could also be on the table.
jul 11, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
How it started: Security theatre. How it ended ended: Populism theatre.
jul 10, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view