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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.
- Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters ...
- Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage 🔥🔥🔥Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.
- Pentagon removes senior official from Joint Staff post, sources say 🔥🔥🔥U.S. Vice Admiral Fred Kacher only took the post in December.
- Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Epstein Files and Our Broken Public Trust 🔥🔥
- Trump administration cannot 'terrorize' Minnesota's refugees with arrests, US judge rules 🔥🔥A federal judge on Friday said he would not allow President Donald Trump's administration to "terrorize" Minnesota's 5,600 refugees by arresting and detaining them under a new policy that "turns the r...
- US urges its citizens to leave Israel immediately amid strike threat to Iran 🔥Department of State authorises non-essential officials to leave, with embassy staff told to book flights to anywhere ...
- Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election, pushing Labour into third place 🔥Labour, which took the seat with more than 50% of the vote in 2024, came behind Reform UK.
- Can State Law Remedy Constitutional Violations by Federal Officers? 🔥So-called converse 1983 statutes are percolating in statehouses across the country and could fill a critical constitutional gap.
- Student Remains in Honduras After ICE Vows to Deport Her Again 🔥
- Transgender Kansans Sue After Driver’s Licenses Are Abruptly Canceled 🔥
- EU regulator backs approval for Moderna's combined COVID, flu shot 🔥Europe's medicines regulator on Friday recommended approval for Moderna's mCombriax, paving the way for it to become the first combined shot for protecting people aged 50 and older against COVID and s...
- Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform 🔥Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors ...
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.
- Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees 🔥🔥🔥"The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote.
- February 26, 2026† 🔥It appears the State of the Union was the marker for the White House to launch directly into campaign mode.
- Paramount + WBD may not be the slam dunk you think it is. 🔥It's a great bet that this is not on most people's radars in Hollywood. But they might want to pay attention.
- Major Update: Republican Senators Break and Demand Release of Accusations Against Trump as Anthropic Rejects Pentagon's Demands over Mass Surveillance Good morning everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 317. 2/27/26 … James Comer lied about the deposition of Bill Clinton to the media regarding what the former president said about Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein: “President Clinton went on to say that Pr...
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.
- Actually, the left is winning the AI debate† 🔥🔥🔥But it does need to get organized.
- Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments 🔥🔥The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...
- Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk' 🔥Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
- Anthropic Takes a Stand 🔥The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon’s demands.
- Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers ...
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.
- CHI’26 Preprint Collection 🔥🔥🔥Looking for current research on HCI + AI? Here’s a list.
- Probing the Geometry of Diffusion Models with the String Method 🔥Understanding the geometry of learned distributions is fundamental to improving and interpreting diffusion models, yet systematic tools for exploring their landscape remain limited. Standard latent-sp...
- A Comparison and Evaluation of Fine-tuned Convolutional Neural Networks to Large Language Models for Image Classification and Segmentation of Brain Tumors on MRI 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in text-based healthcare tasks. However, their utility in image-based applications remains unexplored. We investigate the effectiveness of LL...
- Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work 🔥
- EgoPlan-Bench2: A Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Model Planning in Real-World Scenarios 🔥The advent of Multimodal Large Language Models, leveraging the power of Large Language Models, has recently demonstrated superior multimodal understanding and reasoning abilities, heralding a new era ...
- Obscure but Effective: Classical Chinese Jailbreak Prompt Optimization via Bio-Inspired Search 🔥ArXiv link for Obscure but Effective: Classical Chinese Jailbreak Prompt Optimization via Bio-Inspired Search ...
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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (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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