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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.
- World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say ...
- Trump steps up attacks on California's election system 🔥🔥U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday repeated claims that California's elections are rigged, disputing without evidence voter tallies showing the Republican candidate he endorsed in the Los Angeles m...
- Indictment dismissed against LGBTQ rights attorney related to 'judge shopping' inquiry 🔥A federal indictment has been dismissed that charged an LGBTQ rights attorney with lying during an inquiry into whether he and others engaged in "judge shopping" to challenge Alabama's ban on gender-a...
- Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame 🔥A decision made 70 years ago to reforest vast swathes of Japan with just two kinds of tree has come back to haunt the country.
- Nigel Farage to headline Liz Truss’s UK CPAC event after apparent snub Reform had previously suggested Farage would be ‘steering clear’ of event, modelled on US conservative gathering ...
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.
- June 9, 2026 🔥🔥Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.
- Major Update: GOP Plans to Cut Medicare and Social Security, Trump Approvals in 'Free Fall,' Major Epstein Testimony, Massive Iran Strikes 🔥🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- Our Constitution Is Not Colorblind 🔥It may be that the most consequential sentence of the Supreme Court’s latest decision in Allen v.
- Federal court rules Alabama's nitrogen gas execution protocol unconstitutional 🔥Judge Emily Marks on Tuesday barred Alabama from using nitrogen gas to suffocate Jeffery Lee to death Thursday.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 397. 6/9/26 🔥…Trump killed the vibe of the NY Knicks last night, as they came into Game 3 of the NBA Finals riding high with a 13-game winning streak only to see it come crashing down when the Orange Menace invade...
- Election Day in Maine 🔥Tuesday was primary day in Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Maine.
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.
- Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
- Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers' New York has implemented a law requiring advertisements featuring AI-generated people to clearly label them as “synthetic performers.”
- Nvidia AI Bubble Cooked by 2027, AMD Morale Leak, RDNA 5 Comeback | Ed Zitron | Broken Silicon 365 YouTube video by Moore's Law Is Dead ...
- AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft set aside their rivalry to warn Congress AI is making it too easy to design and create bioweapons | Fortune The signatories want Congress to mandate screening for synthetic DNA sales as AI makes creating a bioweapon easier.
- Microsoft AI chief walks back comments about AI taking over white-collar work Suleyman argues there’s a “very important distinction” between tasks and jobs.
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 New Law of Viewpoint Discrimination 🔥🔥The prohibition against viewpoint discrimination is one of the oldest and most important principles of First Amendment law. But what it means to viewpo ...
- Can Federal Courts Strike Down Regulations That Turned Expired Patents into Permanent Monopolies?† Post-1970 federal regulations make it illegal to manufacture vehicles or machinery based on expired patents, effectively nullifying the Patent Clause's "li ...
- The American Legal System Indicted: The Troubling Story of the FTX Bankruptcy and Prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried† History will not be kind to the prosecutors, bankruptcy administrators, and federal judge who turned what might have been a routine corporate restructuring into ...
- Lobbying and the Petition Clause Contrary to popular opinion, the Supreme Court has not yet resolved whether lobbying is constitutionally protected. Belying this fact, courts, Congress, and sch ...
- Intelligent Design & Egyptian Goddess In Intelligent Design, Christopher Buccafusco, Mark A. Lemley, and Jonathan S. Masur make a compelling case against the United States’ current full-cumulation a ...
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.
- Can LLMs Introspect? A Reality Check† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence: A Delphi...† 🔥🔥🔥Artificial intelligence poses many risks, ranging from familiar present-day harms to unprecedented and potentially catastrophic ones. Effective risk management requires prioritization: we must...
- PR-CAD: Progressive Refinement for Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with Large Language Models 🔥The construction of CAD models has traditionally relied on labor-intensive manual operations and specialized expertise. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have inspired research into text-to-CAD generation. However, existing approaches typically treat generation and editing as disjoint tasks, limiting their practicality. We propose PR-CAD, a progressive refinement framework that unifies generation and editing for controllable and faithful text-to-CAD modeling. To support this, we curate a high-fidelity interaction dataset spanning the full CAD lifecycle, encompassing multiple CAD representations as well as both qualitative and quantitative descriptions. The dataset systematically defines the types of edit operations and generates highly human-like interaction data. Building on a CAD representation tailored for LLMs, we propose a reinforcement learning-enhanced reasoning framework that integrates intent understanding, parameter estimation, and precise edit localization into a single agent. This enables an "all-in-one" solution for both design creation and refinement. Extensive experiments demonstrate strong mutual reinforcement between generation and editing tasks, and across qualitative and quantitative modalities. On public benchmarks, PR-CAD achieves state-of-the-art controllability and faithfulness in both generation and refinement scenarios, while also proving user-friendly and significantly improving CAD modeling efficiency.
- Decision-Aware Memory Cards: Counterfactual-Inspired Context Selection and Compression for Tool-Using LLM Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for Decision-Aware Memory Cards: Counterfactual-Inspired Context Selection and Compression for Tool-Using LLM Agents ...
- Can Federal Courts Strike Down Regulations That Turned Expired Patents into Permanent Monopolies?† 🔥Post-1970 federal regulations make it illegal to manufacture vehicles or machinery based on expired patents, effectively nullifying the Patent Clause's "li ...
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) (promoted)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.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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