My trip to Europe's craziest border (Odds and Ends #106)

Plus my brief take on Jason Arday, a cool London travel time map, and why I've moved a notch closer to AI-doomer.

This border was pretty ambiguous until 1995, so clarifying it was a big plus.

POD! On YIMBY Pod this week, Martin and I dig into Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda, talking about integrated transport ticketing, making the lines on the map more consistent, and much more. Then we speak to Jamie Airnes from Cornish Lithium about his attempt to turn Cornwall into a lithium superpower. Listen here, or wherever you get your pods!

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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 week, you’ll have to indulge me as I’m going to tell you about an interesting place I visited recently – though I think you’ll find it interesting. Then we’ve got some fun and scary links on what’s going on in AI – and whether you like it or not, I’m going to tell you what I think of the Jason Arday controversy.

Now let’s get started!

My trip to Europe’s craziest border

Every so often someone will confuse me and Jonn Elledge. I can sort-of see why¹ – we both write nerdy Substacks that often touch upon similar topics, especially as Jonn is one of the people who radicalised me on housing back when he was the editor of CityMetric.