Odds and Ends #55: The left needs to learn to love AI

Plus Waymo's masterplan, life on a container ship, and the one guy responsible for slowing down road building

Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash

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

In this edition, I feature:

• Why lefties seem more sceptical of AI than righties

• The critical logistics infrastructure we don’t really think about

• How the business model for Google’s autonomous vehicles is becoming clearer

• How just one bloke is responsible for ruining everything, infrastructure-wise

• And a delightful ska cover of a classic song (but don’t let that put you off).

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