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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed 
powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- ICE rapidly re-arresting immigrants released after winning court petitions 🔥🔥🔥Many are challenging their detention using habeas corpus filings only to be arrested again, in violation of court orders ...
- Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Request to Intervene in California Ballot Case (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥The court’s ruling came just hours after administration lawyers asked the justices to immediately order California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
- Exclusive | U.S. Strikes Iran’s Qeshm Island as Trump Talks Down War Risks 🔥🔥The assault follows comments by President Trump playing down the possibility of a return to war with Iran after Tuesday’s midterm elections.
- Trump Searches for a Fall Guy to Blame for Iran 🔥🔥The president might resume strikes, but he is also questioning allies about the performances of Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine.
- Poundland staff could be out of work for years if retailer collapses, founder says 🔥🔥Steve Smith calls on owners to accept proposed buyout as 12,000 staff face uncertain future in run-up to Christmas ...
- Judge Throws Out Charges Against Former F.B.I. Officials (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The magistrate judge, Zia M. Faruqui, said the case was a rushed, political prosecution ordered by the White House intended to affect the midterm elections.
- Ex-FBI chief in Chicago sues DoJ, claiming he was pressured to investigate Trump’s foes 🔥🔥Douglas DePodesta says he was made ‘scapegoat’ after collapse of case against Broadview Six anti-ICE protesters ...
- Judge Throws Out Charges Against Former F.B.I. Officials 🔥The magistrate judge, Zia M. Faruqui, said the case was a rushed, political prosecution ordered by the White House intended to affect the midterm elections.
- Identity Politics Have Entered a New Phase (Gift Article) 🔥Since Trump’s return, discussions of diversity have gone quiet. This year’s midterms have shown that Americans could be ready for something new.
- Goldman Restricts Traders and Bankers From Using Some AI Tools 🔥Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has irked some of its staff after it banned most of them from using advanced artificial intelligence tools designed for coding after reviewing productivity and risk concerns.
- Elon Musk Spends $474 Million on the 2026 Midterm Elections (Gift Article) 🔥Never before has a single ultrawealthy person who was not running for office spent this much during a single election cycle.
- Mamdani Threatens Trump Administration with Legal Action Over ICE Parking Lot Use in NYC (Gift Article) 🔥Earlier this year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani had issued an order barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using city property as staging areas.
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- In shocking admission, DOJ lawyer tells judge it’s “fair” to say its “likely noncitizen“ list has a high error rate 🔥🔥🔥The assistant U.S. attorney’s statement could blow up several DOJ cases involving their voting allegations. Update: SCOTUS quickly rejected DOJ’s request in the California case.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 494. 11/2/26 🔥… On the eve of the midterms before any results are in, Republicans are already grumbling to reporters that Trump screwed them in this election.
- SCOTUS Tells Trump No 🔥Just a short one tonight, to close the loop on the California ballot case before we head into Election Day.
- NEWS: “WTF” — Republicans Left Confused as Trump Closes the Midterms at His Algae Pool, GOP Insiders Blame Trump for Coming Losses Good evening.
- November 2, 2026 Tomorrow is Election Day.
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Mamdani Proposal Targets AI Customer Service ‘Doom Loops’ (1)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥New York City wants to force companies to tell consumers when they’re interacting with artificial intelligence and other computerized systems, part of a proposal to cut down on customer service “doom ...
- #139 in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. X.AI Corp. (N.D. Miss., 3:26-cv-00074) – CourtListener.com† 🔥🔥🔥OPINION AND ORDER denying 54 Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim. Signed by District Judge Debra M. Brown on 10/30/2026. (lld)
- Elon Musk's AI company is reportedly targeting 418 homes near its Mississippi data center, with buyout offers tied to waiving noise-lawsuit claims; county records show five purchases since October 9 homeowners must agree not to join a lawsuit against the company over noise from its nearby power plant. According to a report by The Guardian, real estate agents have been visiting residents in…
- The Wikimedia Foundation files to protect open knowledge in New York Times v OpenAI case – Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the OpenAI copyright case, urging the court to protect Wikipedia and the open knowledge ecosystem.
- Annie Altman v Sam Altman: how OpenAI’s boss gave evidence under oath over his sister's allegation that he sexually abused her In recent weeks, the AI billionaire and his youngest sibling gave pre-trial depositions in a case brought by Annie claiming repeated abuse when she was a child. With her lawsuit in jeopardy, the Nerve...
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- State Prosecutions of Speech in the People's Republic of China: Cases Illustrating the Application of National Security and Public Order Laws to Political and Religious Expression† 🔥This volume contains unofficial translations of over 100 documents produced by agencies of the government of the People's Republic of China between 1998 and 202 ...
- The Weakening of Fiduciary Law† In the 1970s and 80s, as major financial institutions grew and diversified their operations, courts and scholars recognized that fiduciary law posed profound ch ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
- Bouba Beats Kiki, and Other Regularities in the Subjective Preferences of LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Bouba Beats Kiki, and Other Regularities in the Subjective Preferences of LLMs ...
- Fundamental Impossibility Results in AI Safety: Trading Off between Desiderata† 🔥🔥🔥Is there a fundamental tradeoff between desiderata for safe AI systems, such as harmlessness and helpfulness? We answer by formalizing the interaction between AI systems and users as a game with three...
- Echoes as Anchors: Probabilistic Costs and Attention Refocusing in LLM Reasoning† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Echoes as Anchors: Probabilistic Costs and Attention Refocusing in LLM Reasoning ...
- Training Foundation Models with a Single Algorithm† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Training Foundation Models with a Single Algorithm ...
- Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs 🔥Whether models trained on different modalities converge to the same representation of the world is central to AI. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) conjectures that they do as they scale, b...
- Predicting Personality Traits from Short Unstructured Conversations with AI 🔥Given the complexity of personality, we might assume that significant behaviour is required to express our traits. Here we use large language models (LLMs) to test the extent to which personality is v...
- Incentives Shape How Humans Co-Create with Generative AI† 🔥ArXiv link for Incentives Shape How Humans Co-Create with Generative AI ...
- TreasuryQA Bench: Can AI Agents Work an Archive of Scanned Financial Records?† 🔥Organisations keep decades of financial records as scanned PDFs on shared drives, and AI agents can now reach those drives through Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Existing benchmarks do not mirror this production setting because they simplify the task. In some, the relevant documents are hand…
- Letting AI Formulate the Research Question: Autonomous Research Agents† 🔥Systems such as The AI Scientist have shown that AI agents can carry out and write up research, but in those demonstrations humans chose the research area and selected the outputs to show. We study letting the AI formulate the research question itself, and we report every run. Our system gives an o…
- ChatGPT as a Surveillance Assistant? An Exploratory Case Study of AI-Assisted Surveillance Risks 🔥Large language models (LLMs) can generate detailed guidance, functional code, and persuasive text at scale. As one of the most widely used consumer language model products as of 2026, ChatGPT gives broad public access to these capabilities, motivating concerns about its potential use in surveillanc…
- Human--AI Interactions as First-Class Data: A Formal Interaction Model and Runtime for Explainable AI Collaboration† 🔥AI assistants are increasingly embedded in computational notebooks, scientific workflows, software engineering tools, and learning systems, yet human-AI interactions are often treated as transient prompt-response exchanges rather than durable data products, hindering reproducibility, explainability…
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Free Law Project ⚖ (@free.law) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marc Veldhoen (@marcveld.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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