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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 Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
- USPS Is Building a Mail-In Ballot Screening System Despite Legal Battles Over Trump Order 🔥🔥🔥🔥Election officials warn that the creation of a new online portal for states to upload voter information is already fueling confusion and could ultimately disenfranchise voters.
- Burnham blames Brexit and Thatcher for ‘wrong turns’ in first Commons speech as PM 🔥🔥The prime minister said Britain needed to be brutally honest about the mistakes of the last 40 years of UK politics ...
- Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds 🔥🔥Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector ...
- US judge blocks Trump's newest order limiting birthright citizenship 🔥A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting the number of people eligible for birthright citizenship that President Donald Trump issued ...
- Kennedy Center removing landmark ‘Blue’ sculpture from campus 🔥Work began Wednesday morning to remove Joel Shapiro's towering stick-figure-like sculpture, which was installed in 2019.
- Deadly Flash Floods in Nepal Most Likely Caused by Weakened Bedrock 🔥As the planet warms, glacier meltwater and a thawing permafrost could have contributed to destabilizing the rock.
- Video: U.S. Strike Kills Several at a Wedding, Iran Says 🔥A U.S. strike hit a wedding in southern Iran, videos verified by The New York Times show. The U.S. military said it had not targeted civilians in its wave of attacks, and Iran said it had retaliated w...
- Opinion | The cronies in Caracas win over Washington 🔥Trump’s oil deal risks selling out Venezuela’s natural resources and its people’s right to self-government.
- Poll shows nearly 90% of Americans believe government corruption is widespread 🔥Americans have the highest level of distrust in their government in two decades, voicing bipartisan frustration with the country's institutions and the people who run them.
- U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Docks in Thailand, Giving Weary Crew a Break 🔥Thousands of sailors and Marines serve on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which came into the spotlight because of a tough deployment in the war in Iran.
- DNB: Netherlands bank moves billions in gold to London in 'crisis preparedness' move 🔥The Dutch central bank removes some of its gold reserves from the US and Canada, saying it is because of "increasing geopolitical unrest".
- College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status 🔥Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life on a busy highway after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle mo...
- Democrats Have a Plan to Force Trump’s Associates to Cooperate With Investigations 🔥Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.
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.
- About Liam Ramos 🔥🔥🔥🔥Everyone remembers Liam Ramos.
- Seth Moulton lost. Good. Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate.
- NEWS: Pentagon in ‘Shambles’ as Hegseth Faces Removal Calls Amid Readiness Issues, Weak Job Growth, Iran Alleges New War Crimes, and More Good morning.
- Important Update: UN Admits Defeat on Climate Change and Warns of Catastrophe, Trump Family Races to Hire Lawyers, and Much More Good evening.
- September 2, 2026 A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.
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.
- Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion 🔥🔥🔥The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.
- Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit 🔥🔥The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
- Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.
- Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic† 🔥🔥A federal judge has sided with Anthropic on its claims that the Department of Defense illegally retaliated against Anthropic’s protected speech by labeling the AI company a “supply chain risk.”
- Remark – #687 in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., 4:24-cv-05417) – CourtListener.com† 🔥Remark ...
- Tumbler Ridge mass shooting victims file 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI 🔥The company says it prioritizes safety, but suits allege its ChatGPT bot induced shooter to carry out attack in Canada ...
- Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images 🔥Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’ A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her. “Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California. Continue reading...
- US government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case 🔥The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with the New York Times and several other newspapers over the company's use of their work to train the large language models behind ChatGPT, saying AI training generally makes fair use of copyrighted material.
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.
- 'The Stepford Justices': The Need for Experiential Diversity on the Roberts Court 🔥🔥For the first time in history every Supreme Court justice has come directly from the same job: judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. For the first time in history ...
- 9/11 and the Law of Domestic Military Deployments† 🔥The legal architecture of the Defense Department’s domestic operations significantly changed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. This was perhaps most ...
- AI-Powered Lawyering: AI Reasoning Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and the Future of Legal Practice† Generative AI is set to transform the legal profession, though its most promising uses and ultimate effects are still unclear. While AI models like GPT-4 improv ...
- Elections Aren't Failing, Democracy Is† American democracy is in trouble, but not because of how our elections are conducted. To the contrary, election administration is one of the strongest links ...
- Global Online Piracy Study This report deals with the acquisition and consumption of music, films, series, books and games through the various legal and illegal channels that exist nowada ...
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.
- Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We study a novel language model architecture that is capable of scaling test-time computation by implicitly reasoning in latent space. Our model works by iterating a recurrent block, thereby unrolling...
- KEEPING AI IN ITS ZONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥With zoning-reform fever sweeping local governments, state legislatures, and even Congress, there is an urgent push to understand exactly how zoning works. Unfo ...
- Predicting Multilingual Classification and Translation Performance of LLMs with Cross-Lingual Alignment -- Is English Enough? 🔥Multilingual large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform better on non-English classification tasks when the representations of the given language are more aligned to English within the mo...
- Doc-REFRAG: Rethinking Multimodal Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation Real-world knowledge resides in multimodal documents, necessitating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for accurate question answering. However, existing multimodal RAG models are primarily designed...
- Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini in the Real-World We present an extension and comprehensive real-world validation of Co-Scientist, a Gemini-based multi-agent system designed to accelerate end-to-end scientific research across hypothesis generation, e...
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)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (relegated)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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