Jon Stewart is bad again (Odds and Ends #86)

Plus zombie stats about driverless cars, and how Andy Burnham is stealing my ideas

POD! On YIMBY Pod this week: Does AI make you stupid? Is the Treasury fixing the curse of ‘Treasurybrain’? And we speak to Alexander Iosad and Eleni Arzoglou from the Tony Blair Institute about how they think we need to radically re-think how government works in the age of AI. Listen here – or wherever you get your pods.

---

CATCH UP: Can Reform ever be YIMBY? Why I’m, er, doubtful that Reform can fix the housing crisis.

---

Hello! It’s time for Odds and Ends, your semi-regular round-up of the most interesting links I’ve seen this week.

This time I’m featuring:

• Why Jon Stewart has done something bad again

• My podcast co-host being infuriatingly talented

• Why we might be underestimating the impact of driverless cars

• Why AI is going to eat the world

• How the Minnesota anti-ICE activists are doing it right

• One of my non-postcode-related ideas might actually happen!

• A YouTube video that makes me feel about a million years old

• And why Parliament’s cursed renovation project has gone the way of HS2

Now let’s get started!