A few choice words for SNL (Odds and Ends #89)
Plus Manchester reader meet-up TOMORROW!
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POD! On YIMBY Pod this week, we have some good news… and some bad. Cornwall is set to become a lithium superpower (good!), Oxford Street is getting pedestrianised (also good!), but then special guest Chris Lintott tells us why funding for astronomy and curiosity-driven research is under threat (very bad!). Listen here, or wherever you get your pods.
Hello! It’s time for Odds and Ends, your semi-regular round up of the most interesting links I’ve seen this week, plus some shorter takes.
This time I’m featuring…
Comedy & culture: the second-worst SNL sketch of all time; and a surprisingly charming (and violent) short AI film.
Energy & prices: what might happen to gas prices given… well, everything.
AI & the backlash: why the “AI backlash” is mostly fake — and what that says about the wider mood.
Streets & disruption: how to make roadworks less maddening; unexpectedly good news for Oxford Street; and an extremely wholesome crowdsourcing project.
Surveillance & data: how the government is “spying” using mobile data.
WAR! The best website for Monitoring the Situation.
Now let’s get started!
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