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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.
- Pentagon fires ombudsman overseeing military newspaper after calling it ‘woke’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith said the Defense Department dismissed her without giving a reason, according to an email reviewed by The Post.
- Republicans Had an Earth Day Plan to Limit Species Protections. It Flopped. 🔥
- Opinion | Trump Holds the American People in Total Contempt 🔥
- Senate Adopts G.O.P. Budget, Defeating Democrats’ Affordability Proposals 🔥
- Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization 🔥
- Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax 🔥US president accuses UK of thinking it can ‘make an easy buck’ from US tech companies, weeks after warning that UK–US trade deal can be changed ...
- USDA and Palantir sign $300 million software purchase agreement 🔥The U.S. Department of Agriculture and software company Palantir Technologies on Wednesday announced the signing of a $300 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).
- The Kash Patel Fallout 🔥An interview with the Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick about her reporting ...
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.
- What’s Wrong With The SPLC Indictment 🔥🔥🔥🔥DOJ's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center is a critical moment in the administration's war on democracy ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 355. 4/23/26 … Sleepy Don fell asleep again during a press event today about prescription drug prices, dozing off multiple times as his sycophants RFK Jr, Dr.
- BREAKING: DOJ Inspector General Launches Major Investigation Into Handling of Epstein Files as Maxwell Pardon Talk Escalates Good afternoon everyone.
- Another step toward marijuana legalization Today's rescheduling moves from DOJ follow key action from the Biden administration that made Acting A.G. Blanche's moves possible. And: The latest with Virginia redistricting.
- To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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.
- The Delusion of ‘AI Justice’† 🔥🔥🔥🔥As AI seeps deeper into our judicial system, boosters insist it will bring both fairness and efficiency. But can we really trust Judge Grok?
- Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’† 🔥🔥🔥Firm whose partners bill more than $2,000 per hour apologises to judge for software-driven errors in bankruptcy case ...
- AI hallucinated — and now an elite law firm is profusely apologizing to a federal judge† 🔥Sullivan & Cromwell apologized for AI hallucinations in a court filing. Another law firm spotted the mistakes.
- Florida AG launches criminal investigation into ChatGPT over FSU shooting† 🔥Florida's attorney general is launching a criminal investigation into the alleged role of ChatGPT in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year.
- This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright† 🔥Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
- AI Has Emboldened Child Predators, and Investigators Can't Keep Up 🔥To find real kids in danger, law enforcement must sift through a surge of AI-generated sex imagery.
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.
- Restoration of Federal Firearms Rights: The DOJ's Administrative Revival of § 925(c)† 🔥🔥This Article examines the Trump Administration's 2025 administrative reanimation of 18 U.S.C. § 925(c), a long-dormant statutory "safety valve" that a ...
- Are AI Model Weights Protected Speech Under the First Amendment?† 🔥This paper explores whether model weights, the trained parameters of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, constitute protected expression under the First Amend ...
- Everything-Everywhere Searches and the Geofence Puzzle Police surveillance technologies have outpaced Fourth Amendment doctrine. Arbitrary, generalized search powers stretching across entire cities and states now ex ...
- Brief of Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Inc., in Support of Respondent Brooke Lynette Girley† In 2021, Florida civil rights lawyer Jerry Girley represented a Florida doctor in a racial discrimination lawsuit against AdventHealth of Orlando in a jury tria ...
- Suspicion by Association The constitutional requirement that police have individualized suspicion before a stop, search, or arrest was an essential limitation on the state’s power. I ...
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.
- Separating Geometry from Probability in the Analysis of Generalization† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The goal of machine learning is to find models that minimize prediction error on data that has not yet been seen. Its operational paradigm assumes access to a dataset $S$ and articulates a scheme for ...
- Do Large Language Models know Which Published Articles have been Retracted?† 🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) can be helpful for literature search and summarisation, but retracted articles can confuse them. This article asks three open weights (offline) LLMs whether 161 high profi...
- 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...
- 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...
- Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good? LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eked Out Another Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.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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