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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.
- FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.
- Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Spanberger holds wide lead in Virginia governor’s race, Post-Schar School poll finds 🔥Democrat Abigail Spanberger is up 12 points over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in campaign where the economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds, a Washington Post-Schar School poll found.
- Colleges weigh whether to sign on to Trump plan or forgo federal benefits 🔥A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.
- Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules 🔥Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040 ...
- UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says 🔥The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
- Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to National Mall 🔥
- Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion (Gift Article) 🔥There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
- Yale to Trim Budgets as Higher Endowment Tax Tops $300 Million 🔥Yale University is cutting costs and offering retirement incentives as it prepares for higher US taxes on its endowment income and reduced federal funding.
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.
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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.
- Podcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs† 🔥🔥🔥How companies working for landlords are scraping data inside corporate environments; lawyers explain why they used AI (after getting caught); and all the Ruby drama.
- California Signed A Landmark AI Safety Law. What To Know About SB53. | TechPolicy.Press 🔥California is ushering in some of the most significant artificial intelligence rules in the United States. A breakdown of how we got here.
- Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta’s universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw: the lack of federal guardrails around how chat... 🔥TikTok video by New York Times Opinion ...
- Police are drowning in data. Could a chatbot help? Start-up Longeye offers an AI chatbot for police designed to help them spot clues and patterns in digital evidence such as phone recordings or online chatlogs.
- If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For? Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.
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.
- By Birth Alone: The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States† 🔥🔥The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entrenched birthright citizenship into the Constitution. Building on a recent revisionist scholarly literatur ...
- Lyons, Remedies, and the Fourth Amendment in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo† In Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the Supreme Court stayed a lower court injunction as part of its increasingly heavy emergency shadow docket. The injunction p ...
- Enforced Disappearance as a Crime Under International Law: A Neglected Origin in the Laws of War† Enforced disappearance as a crime under international law has a long and neglected history. In this Note I argue that the criminal prohibition of disappearance ...
- How Design Patent Law Lost Its Shape Under U.S. law, patents are available for “any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.” Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (
- The Constitutional Right to Organize This paper explores the role of a worker’s right to organize into a union in constitutional law and constitutional politics. This right has been contested since ...
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.
- Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...
- Material Synthesis 2025 (MatSyn25) Dataset for 2D Materials† 🔥🔥Two-dimensional (2D) materials have shown broad application prospects in fields such as energy, environment, and aerospace owing to their unique electrical, mechanical, thermal and other properties. W...
- Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills ...
- AstroMMBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models Capabilities in Astronomy 🔥🔥Astronomical image interpretation presents a significant challenge for applying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to specialized scientific tasks. Existing benchmarks focus on general multimoda...
- Exploring Opportunities to Support Novice Visual Artists' Inspiration and Ideation with Generative AI† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Exploring Opportunities to Support Novice Visual Artists' Inspiration and Ideation with Generative AI ...
- Beyond the Algorithm: A Field Guide to Deploying AI Agents in Clinical Practice 🔥Large language models (LLMs) integrated into agent-driven workflows hold immense promise for healthcare, yet a significant gap exists between their potential and practical implementation within clinic...
- RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems 🔥ArXiv link for RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems ...
- Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention 🔥ArXiv link for Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention ...
- Hilbert: Recursively Building Formal Proofs with Informal Reasoning 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive mathematical reasoning abilities, but their solutions frequently contain errors that cannot be automatically verified. Formal theorem proving system...
- Generative AI and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the United Kingdom 🔥This paper examines the effects of large language models (LLMs) on UK labor market outcomes. We use a difference-indifferences design that compares outcomes acr ...
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)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Simon Cox (@simonfrcox.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Repeated, Gratuitous, and Harmful Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ghost malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.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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