Unregulated companies rate prospective tenants as good or bad using questionable machine-learning algorithms and big data. They don't give reasons for blacklisting a specific tenant. Perhaps their method gives them no way to do that.

The lack of clarity about the reasons for blacklisting would-be renters adds gratuitous frustration, but the basic problem is that rents are so high that workers struggle to afford them, so many tenants don't succeed in paying rent.

To make the algorithms more transparent would change who gets to rent an apartment and who does not, but would not prevent that the shortage. The only way to do that is to make a lot more housing.

The best way to make a lot more housing is to eliminate the zoning laws that prohibit dense housing.

As long as that does not happen, landlords will see that scarcity enables them to raise rents to levels that make struggle to afford the rent, which means that some will be unfortunate and get evicted, which means that landlords will seek ways not to rent to anyone who might have get into that situation.

*Analysis of the images [from Bucha] date massacre to before Russian forces evacuated the Ukrainian city.*

The president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for "blasphemy".

He had been told that his relatives would be threatened unless he pleaded guilty, and that he'd get a short sentence if he did so.

Amazon has a special cr…app for discussions among staff. The company plans to censor the words "union", "fire", "slave labor", "diversity" and "injustice."

That will be done using an "auto bad word monitor" which will recognize "inappropriate" messages.

This reminds us that "inappropriate" states a subjective judgment and nothing more, so we should be suspicious whenever anyone is accused of acting or speaking "inappropriately" without some explanation of why we should consider it wrong.

A Ukrainian civilian reports on three nights of torture by Russian captors, along with other civilian prisoners.