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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.
- Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader 🔥
- White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I. 🔥
- US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say 🔥Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled ...
- Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis ...
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.
- May 22, 2026 🔥🔥On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States.
- BREAKING: White House Forces Out Tulsi Gabbard. She's Out on June 30th. 🔥🔥Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she is stepping down from her role in the Trump administration, citing her husband’s recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone can...
- LIVE SOON: Abrego Garcia, the rule of law, and the Constitution all won today! 🔥Starting May 22 at 8:30 PM EDT ...
- NEWS: GOP Cancels Votes to Avoid Trump Embarrassment, Officials Discuss Seizing Voting Machines and Curbing Travel to Blue Cities 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Yet We Persist 🔥Trump's hostile agenda may be exhausting, but he can't kill our hope or break our commitment to America's democratic project ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 385. 5/22/26 🔥… Tulsi Gabbard resigned as DNI, joining the ranks of a long list of Trump appointees who have been fired, forced out, or quit.
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.
- China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Judge says lawyers' AI use risks ‘career-altering’ consequences 🔥🔥A federal judge in Alabama has suspended a lawyer from practicing in his court for six months after finding the attorney submitted a brief with false quotations and impeded a probe into whether an AI program was used to draft the filing.
- Musk Vows Appeal After Losing $150 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit† 🔥🔥A jury dismissed the billionaire’s claims that OpenAI improperly transitioned from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity, saying Musk was too late in filing the suit.
- The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It. 🔥Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
- UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students 🔥The University of California, Berkeley Law School has adopted a new, strict policy governing students’ use of AI. It forbids the use of AI for work submitted for credit.
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.
- Separation of Copyright Powers† 🔥🔥🔥 The United States Copyright Office’s multifarious roles in the U.S. copyright system have long prompted uncertainty about its position a ...
- Against First Amendment Traditionalism The First Amendment freedoms of speech and press are under serious strain. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
- Head-of-State Immunity in U.S. Courts: When Law Trumps Facts† In March 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr announced criminal charges against Nicolás Maduro and fourteen alleged co-conspirators for narco-terrorism,
- Unwritten Ultimate Responsibility: The Prime Minister and Canadian National Security† Canada's Prime Minister is ultimately responsible for national security, yet powers they exercise in this domain are largely unwritten. While statute and regula ...
- In Search of University Democracy Virtually all institutions of higher education in the United States share the same basic governance structure. Ultimate authority resides not with facu ...
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.
- Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
- On the limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature-family papers with 45 expert scientists† 🔥🔥🔥With the advancement of AI capabilities, AI reviewers are beginning to be deployed in scientific peer review, yet their capability and credibility remain in question: many scientists simply view them ...
- All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMs† 🔥🔥
- LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
- Estimating near-verbatim extraction risk in language models with decoding-constrained beam search 🔥Recent work shows that standard greedy-decoding extraction methods for quantifying memorization in LLMs miss how extraction risk varies across sequences. Probabilistic extraction -- computing the prob...
- The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data 🔥Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples": synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents. However, producing these samples requires many analyti...
- ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop† 🔥First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author ...
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)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Evil, Corrupt, and Weaponized Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.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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