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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.
- Speaker Johnson calls for redistricting Southern states before November 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥After the Supreme Court limited the Voting Rights Act, Johnson said states should consider redrawing House maps before the midterms. New boundaries would help the GOP.
- What Peak Gerrymandering Could Look Like Now 🔥
- Senators ban themselves from participating in prediction markets 🔥The platforms, which have gained scrutiny recently, allow people to place bets on future events such as election results. The ban also applies to Senate staffers.
- Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024 🔥Reform leader changed his mind about standing as MP after gift from Thai-based crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne ...
- Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.
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.
- A Dark New Chapter for American Democracy 🔥🔥🔥The End of Federal Voting Rights Protection as We Know It ...
- What the Court Did in Callais—And Why It Matters 🔥🔥Absentee-by-mail voting was already underway in Louisiana’s primary elections when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Callais case on Wednesday.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 360. 4/30/26 🔥… Republican leaders launched their midterm pitch to voters with a series of TV appearances trying to defend dismal economic numbers by gaslighting, spinning and lying.
- Important Thursday Night Update: Epstein, Trump Cognitive Test, DOJ Admits Selective Prosecution, and More 🔥Good evening everyone.
- April 30, 2026 🔥Today G.
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.
- Victims allege OpenAI and Sam Altman are responsible for a mass shooting† 🔥🔥🔥🔥A new lawsuit underscores key questions about the Tumbler Ridge killer’s use of ChatGPT.
- Ex-Corinth school superintendent acquitted by federal jury 🔥🔥MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Corinth, Mississippi, school superintendent who had been accused of concealing information about the investigation of a teacher in a child pornography case was found not g…
- SXSW Used AI-Powered Trademark Tool To Censor Dissent on Instagram† 🔥🔥“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company.”
- Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court† 🔥🔥Every word she messaged her therapist... it all became public in court.
- Families sue OpenAI over Canadian mass shooter's use of ChatGPT† 🔥The lawsuit claims OpenAI was negligent for failing to report the shooter to authorities after her account was flagged for "gun violence activity and planning."
- University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop† 🔥ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
- School-shooting lawsuits accuse OpenAI of hiding violent ChatGPT users† 🔥Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.
- Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared† 🔥“Larry Page refused to speak to me ever again.”
- Live Updates: Elon Musk Says He Was ‘a Fool’ to Fund OpenAI† 🔥
- These Men Allegedly Profit Off Teaching People How to Make AI Porn 🔥Three Arizona women have filed a lawsuit against a group of men that alleges they used the women’s photos to make AI porn influencers, then offered online courses showing others how to do it.
- OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years 🔥
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.
- Tariffs as Taxes: A Framework for Understanding Delegation of the Taxing Power 🔥🔥 The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump confirmed an important truth: Tariffs are taxes. That truth matters not o ...
- Written Statement of Nikolas Bowie to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, June 30, 2021 This testimony to President Joe Biden's Commission on the Supreme Court makes two arguments against the U.S. Supreme Court's power to invalidate federal le ...
- Legal Paternalism: On Mandates, Nudges, Boosts, and Laissez-Faire Is legal paternalism legitimate? Might it increase welfare? When would it compromise autonomy in some impermissible way? The massive recent outpouring of empiri ...
- Article 2 of the Windsor Framework, the Legacy Act and the Illegal Migration Act: Adjusting to Post-Brexit Realities The post-Brexit status of EU law in Northern Ireland was often the most controversial issue in the prolonged process of negotiating and concluding the ...
- What is the Standard of Proof for Guilty Pleas?† Among those who study or practice in the American criminal system, it is well known that almost all criminal convictions are accomplished through guilt ...
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.
- Ask don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sycophancy, the tendency of large language models to favour user-affirming responses over critical engagement, has been identified as an alignment failure, particularly in high-stakes advisory and soc...
- Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames 🔥🔥Wargames are simulations of conflicts in which participants' decisions influence future events. While casual wargaming can be used for entertainment or socialization, serious wargaming is used by expe...
- The effects of image augmentations when training machine learning models in astronomy 🔥We measure the influence of image augmentations and training dataset size when training a deep neural network to classify galaxy morphology. Data augmentation is an integral step when training machine...
- Contexts are Never Long Enough: Structured Reasoning for Scalable Question Answering over Long Document Sets ArXiv link for Contexts are Never Long Enough: Structured Reasoning for Scalable Question Answering over Long Document Sets ...
- Systematic Failures in Collective Reasoning under Distributed Information in Multi-Agent LLMs Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) are expected to enhance decision-making by pooling distributed information, yet systematically evaluating this capability has remained challen...
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)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Popehat Aced It All Three Times (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg "86 47" Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (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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