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Moreover, Congress’s discretionary authority meant that until territories became states, the federal government held absolute power over them. Initially, territories were to be ruled by an appointed governor and three judges. Even after they gained legislatures, the governor retained the power to veto bills and dissolve the legislature. “In effect,” wrote James Monroe, who drafted the ordinance, it was “a colonial government similar to that which prevail’d in these States previous to the revolution.” Jefferson conceded that the first stage resembled a “despotic oligarchy.”
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
Large corporate landlords like real estate investment trusts (REITs) benefit enormously from the shortage of housing — and they know it.
To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Have to Increase the Housing Supply
jacobin.com
Even if no skills or capacities separate humans from artificial intelligence, there is still a reason and a means to fight the assessment that machines are people. If you attribute the same moral weight to something that can be trivially and easily digitally replicated as you do to an ape that takes decades to grow, you break everything—society, all ethics, all our values.
One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?
wired.com
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