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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.
- Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll Over Trump Lawsuits 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr. 🔥🔥🔥🔥About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
- Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.
- If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why? | Jonathan Liew Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew ...
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.
- E. Jean Carroll 🔥🔥Is DOJ investigating her, or not?
- NEWS: Artists Bail on Trump’s 250th Event as Trump Spends Millions Gilding D.C., Peter Thiel Relocates to Argentina, And More 🔥🔥Good evening everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 388. 5/28/26 🔥… DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin continues to advance his insane plan to pull all US Customs agents out of intl airports of “sanctuary cities” who refuse to assist ICE with their local law enforcement...
- May 28, 2026 🔥It’s an excellent bet that future books and films made about the Trump Era will begin with an image of the White House this week.
- The Data Center Bankshot 🔥The ...
- Supreme Court, on another 5-4 vote, tosses out another death sentence 🔥On Thursday, Justice Kavanaugh wrote his second majority opinion for the court upholding protections against racial discrimination in jury selection.
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.
- US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
- ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access† 🔥🔥BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance v...
- California judges are testing a new AI clerk. You won't know if it's looking at your case† Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.
- Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill† The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign.
- Judiciary Tried To Hide 'Sex In Chambers' Judge's Name. It Left A Roadmap To Identify Eleanor Ross Instead. - Above the Law For all their efforts, both the Eleventh Circuit and Judicial Conference left a lot of clues.
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.
- Drafting Regulatory Preambles (Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States)† 🔥This is a report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in ju ...
- WHO CONTROLS THE PODIUM? A FIRST AMENDMENT FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATING CITIZEN SPEECH AT GOVERNMENT MEETINGS Public comment at government meetings is, in the words of one legal scholar, “perhaps the purest form of citizen political expression.” Yet across the cou ...
- Copyright's Public Domains: The Limits on AI Appropriation The spectacular rise to commercial and intellectual prominence of artificial intelligence (AI) since 2022, and in particular the predominant role of ...
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.
- The sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We disprove the sum-product conjecture for real numbers by constructing arbitrarily large $A\subset \mathbb{R}$ (whose elements are algebraic integers in a number field of degree $\asymp \log\lvert A\...
- Datasets for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey† 🔥🔥This paper embarks on an exploration into the Large Language Model (LLM) datasets, which play a crucial role in the remarkable advancements of LLMs. The datasets serve as the foundational infrastructu...
- The Illusion of Competence: Self-Perceived Digital Literacy and AI Readiness Among European Secondary Students† 🔥The ubiquitous presence of digital devices has cemented the 'Digital Native' paradigm, assuming inherent technological proficiency among contemporary youth. This multicenter study ($N=243$ European se...
- Simulating Human Memory with Language Models† 🔥Language models are increasingly being deployed as user simulators, but their memory is far more reliable than that of real users. To measure this gap, we run a series of classic memory experiments fr...
- LLM4Branch: Large Language Model for Discovering Efficient Branching Policies of Integer Programs Efficient branching policies are essential for accelerating Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solvers. Their design has long relied on hand-crafted heuristics, and now machine learning has emerg...
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)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Popehat Has Gone Absolutely CRAZY!!! (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Innocent🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.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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