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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.
- Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility 🔥
- Postal Service Seeks to Block Mail Ballots in States Resisting Trump Demands
- Reform and Restore are both hard right and poisonous – but their differences could be their undoing | Andy Beckett It is not enough to revile them both. Understanding the personal and ideological divergence is essential to taking back the ground they now occupy, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett ...
- The New Law of Political Prosecutions Judges have long defaulted to a posture of trust toward the federal government, but under Trump that is changing, and a new set of legal possibilities is emerging.
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.
- Today’s Legal Update 🔥🔥This is one of those everything, everywhere, all at once weeks.
- June 11, 2026 🔥🔥At 8:22 this morning, Trump posted on social media: “The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offe...
- It’s the Fraud, Stupid 🔥Trump and DOJ are out of moves before Judge Williams.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 398. 6/11/26 🔥… TACO Trump began the day threatening a ground invasion of Iran and ended it by backing down and claiming that the concepts of a deal had been reached without providing any details, while reporting f...
- Breaking: Supreme Court rejects Alabama's request to let it kill Jeffery Lee with nitrogen gas this week Two lower courts had earlier refused Alabama's request to let the state proceed with its plans to use the method of execution declared unconstitutional on Tuesday.
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.
- Exclusive: Democrats unveil plan to protect elections from Trump, AI 🔥🔥🔥“The ballot box is the beating heart of democracy, and we must use every tool at our disposal to protect it,” Sen. Merkley said.
- The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot 🔥Two former staffers have created a new, perplexing company.
- 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.”
- Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
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.
- We the (Native) People?: How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S. Constitution† 🔥🔥The Constitution was written in the name of the “People of the United States.” And yet, many of the nation’s actual people were excluded from the document’s dra ...
- Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution† 🔥The controversy over birthright citizenship in the United States and the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment has exposed two urgent needs in American constituti ...
- What Copyright Can’t Do Copyright has become a powerful regulatory regime for modern American life. Copyrighted works, including text, images, video, sounds, music, and so ...
- Moody v. NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment Over the past quarter-century, industrial speech law and policy have converged on novel First Amendment questions about the regulation of the domin ...
- The Fixed-Term Presidency, Revisited A four-year presidential term offers plenty of time for a rogue president to inflict significant damage. Despite this truism, over the history of the United ...
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.
- A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where...
- 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.
- Artificial Intelligence and the Lessons of History 🔥The history of technological advancement is often invoked as a reason for optimism about the future of artificial intelligence. AI supporters infer from history ...
- Full Attention Strikes Back: Transferring Full Attention into Sparse within Hundred Training Steps 🔥ArXiv link for Full Attention Strikes Back: Transferring Full Attention into Sparse within Hundred Training Steps ...
- An Ocean Model Ported by a Large Language Model: Experience and Lessons from FESOM2 (Fortran to C to C++/Kokkos) Large language models (LLMs) can translate and modify source code, and have been shown to do so for codes of different complexity. Whether they can port a complete, production geophysical model to a d...
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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