Medicare Advantage insurance companies are using secret algorithms to choose a time to refuse to keep paying for a treatment. Patients and their lawyers are not given the supposed reasons for the decision so they have no easy way to challenge it.

The article calls these algorithms "AI". What that means is not clear — I expect it is mere machine learning, but it might perhaps be a system that draws confusions for reasons. Either way, the details of how the algorithm operates are not important. The crucial point is that they are secret.

Some countries have considered laws to forbid the use of secret algorithms to make decisions about how a person will be treated — and not only in medicine. I think the US should adopt such a law.

It is misguided to rush to relabel art from the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union as "Ukrainian".

Given the information in the article, it would be more accurate to describe that Degas painting as showing a dancer in Ukrainian dress; but if Degas gave it a title, or (as it seems) said somewhere what he thought he had depicted, we should respect that. Being French, he may not have been aware of the difference, and it is anachronistic to make it seem that he did.

*How Big Oil money influences US universities.*

Universities even sometimes let Big Oil employees teach the university's classes.

An Australian who worked for the tax authority informed the public about how that agency was using harsh measures to collect unpaid taxes. Now he faces trial for this, despite Australia's law meant to protect whistleblowers.

*Twitter Widens Its Censorship of Modi's Critics.*