2026-09-08

The QR code you’re not allowed to scan.

US immigration.

There’s a large sign advertising an app that supposedly makes getting through customs easier.

The sign contains a QR code.

Alongside it are warnings that photography isn’t allowed.

A QR code.

In a place where you’re told not to use your camera.

I couldn’t even take a photograph of the absurdity because, well, photography isn’t allowed.

This might be my favourite example yet for the Common Sense Police.

Technology doesn’t improve a process simply because you’ve added technology to it.

At some point, somebody still has to ask:

Can a human actually do what we’re telling them to do?