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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.
- Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for co...
- Google Buying Computing From SpaceX in $920-Million-a-Month Deal 🔥🔥🔥🔥Alphabet Inc.’s Google has agreed to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX $920 million a month for computing power as part of a cloud services deal that runs through mid-2029, its second such agreement with an AI c...
- Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud 🔥🔥
- Hegseth, at D-Day event, says Europe faces 'invasion' of dangerous ideologies 🔥U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday that Europe faced what he called an invasion of dangerous ideologies arriving by sea, linking immigration to the legacy of the D-Day landings i...
- As Trump Pushes Deportations, a Skyrocketing Caseload Strains Immigration Courts 🔥
- Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel 🔥
- Donald Trump says Pete Hegseth loves war. That should disqualify him 🔥How did standards for military leaders fall so low?
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.
- Todd Blanche should not be confirmed as Attorney General. He should be disbarred. 🔥🔥🔥Blanche is arguably the most corrupt AG ever ...
- The Watchdog Is On Life Support 🔥🔥What happens when the local paper dies ...
- Important Saturday Night News Update 🔥Veterans furious with Trump on D-Day, Mormons erupt on Hegseth, Vance says Kirk's death convinced Usha to have another child, and more ...
- Important Update: Trump Upset as Celebrities Bail on UFC Fight, Screwworm Disaster, Pentagon Promotes Christian Nationalism Good morning everyone, and happy Saturday.
- Week Two in 250 to 250 This was the second week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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.
- Bernie Sanders Has His Eye on AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥One percent of the senators own 99 percent of the haphazard AI bills.
- UK Regulator Staunches Google’s AI Content Grab 🔥🔥If AI systems derive value from news, media organizations must have leverage in determining the terms of that relationship, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
- Bernie Sanders' Dangerous and Unconstitutional Plan to Expropriate AI Firms 🔥The plan to seize 50% of AI firms' stock violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. It would also create dangerous government control over a vital industry, in ways similar to Trump's policie...
- What Pennsylvania’s AI chatbot lawsuit teaches us about the psychology behind medical trust 🔥A Carnegie Mellon researcher explains the connection between our brains and AI chatbots – and what a new Pennsylvania lawsuit reveals about the dangers of AI.
- American Democracy Wasn’t Designed for This 🔥Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?
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.
- 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 ...
- Crisis and the Constitution: The Role of Civil Liberties in Times of National Security Threat† In this Article, we contribute to the unfolding debate around civil liberties and civil rights in times of political, cultural, and health crises. As this Artic ...
- Indonesian Constitutional Cases Challenge PDP Law† A two-year grace period has come and gone since Indonesia’s first omnibus Personal Data Protection Act (PDP Law) was enacted in 2022 and the law came ...
- Obscuring Officer Identities Law enforcement officers and agencies are increasingly trying to prevent the public from learning the identities of individual officers. The most prominent rece ...
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.
- Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative† 🔥🔥🔥AI's central challenge is shifting from capability to coexistence. The dominant paradigm in AI research focuses on developing powerful agents that treat the world as an exogenous and stationary source...
- Can LLMs Introspect? A Reality Check 🔥🔥
- Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End Co-Design of Neural Network Processors: From Training and Mapping to Fabrication† 🔥ArXiv link for Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End Co-Design of Neural Network Processors: From Training and Mapping to Fabrication ...
- Answer Presence Drives RAG Rewriting Gains† 🔥Retrieval-augmented QA pipelines often route retrieved passages through an LLM \emph{rewriter} before a smaller reader, lifting F1 by tens of points on multi-hop benchmarks; this gain is typically cre...
- Agent Memory: Characterization and System Implications of Stateful Long-Horizon Workloads† 🔥LLM agents are increasingly deployed on long-horizon tasks requiring sustained reasoning over extended interaction histories. Realizing this at scale requires agents to persistently store, retrieve, and update their own memory across sessions. A rich ecosystem of agent memory systems has emerged spa ...
- Search-Time Contamination in Deep Research Agents: Measuring Performance Inflation in Public Benchmark Evaluation 🔥ArXiv link for Search-Time Contamination in Deep Research Agents: Measuring Performance Inflation in Public Benchmark Evaluation ...
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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