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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.
- Keir Starmer’s director of communications Tim Allan steps down 🔥🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: Decision follows departure of chief of staff Morgan McSweeney over Peter Mandelson scandal ...
- Mandelson revelations show need for tougher UK constraints to resist rule of the rich | Heather Stewart† 🔥🔥🔥Labour must protect democracy and learn lessons from Jeffrey Epstein’s efforts to influence government policy ...
- The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center 🔥🔥🔥ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
- U.K.’s Starmer Is in Danger of Becoming First Leader to Fall in Epstein Scandal 🔥🔥Keir Starmer, who gained office in a landslide election just 19 months ago, was already deeply unpopular.
- Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation 🔥🔥
- Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows 🔥🔥
- UK expands Hong Kong visa scheme in wake of Jimmy Lai’s prison sentence 🔥Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five years ...
- Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home 🔥
- Immigration courts fast-track hearings for Somali asylum claims 🔥Their lawyers fear the notices are merely the first step toward the removal without due process of Somali asylum applicants in the country.
- ‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company 🔥$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
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.
- Major Update: Congress Reviews Unredacted Epstein Files and Confirms Trump Lied and DOJ Redacted Names of Several Co-Conspirators 🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Stop the SAVE Act 🔥🔥Trump Has Pushed for a Vote in the House This Week On A Bill That May Disenfranchise Tens of Millions of Eligible Voters ...
- Hate thy Neighbor as Thyself 🔥The Gospel of JD ...
- February 9, 2026 Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have st...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 304. 2/9/26 … Republicans continue to melt down over the Super Bowl halftime show by Bad Bunny as they rolled out MAGA alternative Kid Rock. Their principle objections to the show were: 1. Bunny sang in Spanish; ...
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.
- Victims urge tougher action on deepfake abuse as new law comes into force† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough ...
- Generative justice: AI courtroom content could change how Americans think about the law 🔥🔥AI is being used to create fake scenes from courthouses. What does that mean for public trust in institutions?
- Whoops: ‘AI’ Toy Company Leaks Chat Logs, Personal Data Of 50,000 Toddlers 🔥🔥My biggest complaints with AI tend to be with the human beings who are rushing language learning models into mass adoption without doing their basic due diligence. Like AI toy maker Bondu, the crea…
- Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case 🔥🔥Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.
- The Right To Lie With AI? First Amendment Challenges For State Efforts To Curb False Political Speech Using Deepfakes And Synthetic Media – Colorado Technology Law Journal 🔥
- Grok, Deepfakes, and the Collapse of the Content/Capability Distinction 🔥The Grok case suggests that effective AI regulation may come not from comprehensive AI-specific frameworks, but from applying existing harm-based laws to new capabilities.
- Trump wants AI everywhere in government. See the 1,300 new ways it’s being used. 🔥The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.
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.
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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.
- Do Models Hear Like Us? Probing the Representational Alignment of Audio LLMs and Naturalistic EEG† 🔥🔥Audio Large Language Models (Audio LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in integrating speech perception with language understanding. However, whether their internal representations align with ...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task 🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability 🔥ArXiv link for Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability ...
- BIRD: Behavior Induction via Representation-structure Distillation† Human-aligned deep learning models exhibit behaviors consistent with human values, such as robustness, fairness, and honesty. Transferring these behavioral properties to models trained on different ta...
- How AI Impacts Skill Formation† AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Meat And Ferments Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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