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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.
- US court blocks mail-order access to abortion drugs, for now 🔥🔥🔥🔥A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal rule allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail, significantly curtailing access to the drug nationwide and ...
- Starmer says Polanski ‘is not fit to lead a political party’ after Golders Green police criticism 🔥🔥🔥🔥PM said post shared on X was ‘disgraceful’ after Green leader apologised and said he had reposted it ‘in haste’
- Appeals court limits abortion pill access nationwide 🔥🔥🔥🔥A federal appeals court issued a ruling that would temporarily block people from accessing abortion pills through telehealth providers and via mail.
- Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores 🔥🔥
- Trump Family-Backed Drone Firm Signs Weapons Deal With US The US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by President Donald Trump’s sons, according to the firm, deepening the military’s ties to defense contr...
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.
- Five Questions with Katie Phang 🔥🔥🔥My friend Katie Phang sued acting Attorney General Todd Blanche earlier this week.
- Trump’s Reichstag fire presidency is immolating The media personality in the White House has been exposed as a crisis actor.
- Power, democracy, and clarity What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
- May 1, 2026 Today is the deadline for President Donald J.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 361. 5/1/26 … Trump gave a campaign speech today to a group of senior citizens at The Villages in FL, which many longtime Floridians refer to as ‘God’s Waiting Room’.
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…
- 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.
- 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."
- School-shooting lawsuits accuse OpenAI of hiding violent ChatGPT users† 🔥🔥Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.
- A tech worker in China is laid off and replaced by AI. Is it legal? 🔥A tech worker in eastern China's Hangzhou city was dismissed after his job was replaced by AI. An appeals court in the city has ruled the dismissal unlawful.
- Live Updates: Elon Musk Says He Was ‘a Fool’ to Fund OpenAI† 🔥
- OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years† 🔥
- Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI 🔥The billionaire battle goes to court.
- Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents 🔥Microsoft’s Legal Agent comes from the work of former Robin AI engineers.
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 ...
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing 🔥“Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
- 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 ...
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.
- 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...
- LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...
- Fake Plastic Voters: When Political Parties Can Use AI-Simulated Focus Groups Political parties strive to understand their electorates, and focus groups are a vital tool in these efforts. AI-enhanced simulation technologies (AESTs) enable ...
- Why do we do astrophysics? At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...
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)
- Terminated Hat (@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)
- The Empty City (@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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