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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.
- Opinion | John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Purported Epstein Suicide Note Is Released 🔥🔥🔥
- Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show 🔥🔥Imagery published by Iranian state-affiliated media and verified by The Post shows damage to at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites.
- Trump probe into Smith College transgender policy was sparked by choice of commencement speaker - The Boston Globe 🔥🔥After Smith awarded an honorary degree to Admiral Rachel L. Levine, a transgender woman and former Biden official, a conservative watchdog group filed a federal complaint.
- Opinion | Democrats Should Pay Attention to Keir Starmer’s Fall 🔥🔥
- Justin Wolfers, Cable’s Favorite Economist, Joins the Creator Economy 🔥🔥
- Why we need to treat Earth like a spaceship 🔥Climate science is the anti-myth. Researchers have long noted that the human brain struggles with psychologically distant threats.
- Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash 🔥The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
- US says airline jet fuel costs jumped $1.8 billion or 56% in March 🔥Major U.S. passenger airlines spent just over $5 billion on jet fuel in March, up $1.8 billion or 56% from what they spent in February, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Wednesday.
- The DOJ Is Breaking Its Own Rules to Litigate in the Media 🔥When the Justice Department targets high-profile individuals like former FBI Director James Comey and Fed Chair Jerome Powell, you’d think prosecutors would follow longstanding policy to achieve the b...
- Gulf States Fear an Emboldened Iran Is Taking Advantage of a Hesitant U.S. 🔥Governments friendly with America are worried about Tehran’s strikes on the United Arab Emirates.
- Scottish mum stuck abroad after baby falls foul of UK dual nationality rules 🔥Sarah Schloegl was unable to board flight home from Spain as 11-month-old lacked documents needed under new rules ...
- Up to 150 former WH Smith stores face closure, putting thousands of jobs at risk 🔥Modella Capital, which rebranded shops as TG Jones, unveils radical restructuring plan, including rent holidays ...
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.
- The New Jim Crow 🔥🔥What happened in Alabama today ...
- Wednesday Night Update: Epstein Suicide Note Released, Kash Patel Gives Out Alcohol Bottles, Recall Effort Launched for Louisiana Governor 🔥🔥We have some important updates this evening, from reports surrounding Kash Patel’s alcohol gifts allegedly handed out during official government business, to the push to indict the Democratic Virginia...
- May 6, 2026 🔥🔥It has not been a banner day for members of the Trump administration.
- Major Update: 'Panic' As White House Prepares for Investigations, Hantavirus Spreads, Trump's Surgeon General Nominee Questioned his Health 🔥Good morning everyone.
- Important Update: Major Epstein News as Lutnick Lies, Market Manipulation Over Iran, FBI Targets Virginia Democrat, Hantavirus Spreads 🔥Good afternoon everyone.
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.
- Scott Turow's latest real-life legal thriller: Suing Meta for copyright infringement† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Five major publishing houses and the bestselling author are suing Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly training its Llama generative AI models on millions of copyrighted materials.
- Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals† 🔥🔥UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
- Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training† 🔥Publishers Elsevier, Cengage [RIC:RIC:TLACQ.UL], Hachette , Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.
- Publishers sue Meta, claiming it violated copyrights in training AI with their books† 🔥The plaintiffs allege that Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg “personally authorized and actively encouraged” copyright infringement.
- Microsoft, Google and xAI to give US government early access to AI models for security checks† 🔥Microsoft, Google and Elon Musk’s xAI agreed to give the U.S. government early access to new artificial intelligence models for national security testing, as U.S. officials grow alarmed by the hackin...
- Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors† 🔥Pennsylvania has sued the artificial intelligence company behind Character.AI to stop its chatbot from posing as doctors.
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.
- Does Textualism Constrain Supreme Court Justices?† 🔥A principal justification for textualism is the constraint hypothesis. Conservative justices and leading textualist scholars contend that-in stark contrast to r ...
- Designing EU Defence Authority: Differentiated Integration and Institutional and Procedural Constraints This article examines whether differentiated integration (DI) can offer a viable framework for deeper European defence integration, including the potential dele ...
- Chief Justice Rehnquist's Enduring, Democratic Constitution† William H. Rehnquist's essay, "The Notion of a Living Constitution," was delivered as the Will E. Orgain Lecture and then published thirty years ago,
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.
- How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting Token Consumption in Agentic Coding Tasks† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The wide adoption of AI agents in complex human workflows is driving rapid growth in LLM token consumption. When agents are deployed on tasks that require a significant amount of tokens, three questio...
- Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks 🔥🔥The scope of AI safety and alignment work in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has so far mostly been limited to harms related to: (a) discrimination and hate speech, (b) harmful/inappropriat...
- Stop Automating Peer Review Without Rigorous Evaluation Large language models offer a tempting solution to address the peer review crisis. This position paper argues that today's AI systems should not be used to produce paper reviews. We ground this positi...
- Attention Is All You Need
- The AI Layoff Trap If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In a c...
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)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- 3 Or 4 On A Scale of 10 Hats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (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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