Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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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.
- Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.
- Opinion | The ‘Arrogance of Power’ Drives War in Iran 🔥🔥
- The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us 🔥🔥Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.
- UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax 🔥🔥Hampshire business seems to have benefited from ‘phoenixism’, which costs the taxpayer about £800m a year ...
- Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently 🔥🔥
- Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies 🔥National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG ...
- ‘Putin will be smiling’: Ukraine struggles as US focus moves to Iran 🔥Ukrainian ex-defence minister says conflict provides simultaneous ‘risks and opportunities’
- How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine 🔥
- Opinion | America Cannot Withstand the Economic Shock That’s Coming 🔥
- Trump Wants to ‘Take Over’ Elections. These States are Prime Targets. 🔥
- U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows 🔥
- Opinion | James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray 🔥
- ‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell 🔥Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says ...
- When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities 🔥
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 Desire for Terror 🔥🔥🔥🔥And the defense of democracy ...
- My son you will never meet 🔥On December 31, at a routine OB appointment, the doctor couldn’t find our baby’s heartbeat.
- The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 323. … Trump was widely criticized for wearing a campaign hat he’s selling on his website for $55 during the dignified transfer ceremony for the soldiers killed during his Iran War.
- Trump admin effort to claim Kari Lake had power over Voice of America was illegal, judge rules "The Court declines Lake’s invitation to do such violence to the statutory and constitutional scheme," Judge Lamberth ruled on Saturday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
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.
- Blowhard ChatGPT bot posed as lawyer, convinced woman to fire her real attorney — while citing phony ‘case law’: suit† 🔥🔥🔥The AI-powered chatbot urged Graciela Dela Torre, of Des Plaines, to reopen her already-settled disability case and file dozens of illegitimate motions against her employer, Nippon Life Insurance C…
- OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying† 🔥Whether it means to or not ...
- The Campaign to Take Down Alex Bores Is Just the Beginning 🔥A leading AI industry-backed Super PAC is targeting a pro-regulation candidate — and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with.
- Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick.
- Meta’s Oversight Board races to govern the AI surge As generative AI explodes on social media, the board’s slow, human-led review model faces a breaking point.
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.
- The Crisis of Appropriations Law 🔥🔥Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principles, approv ...
- The Equity Docket† The Supreme Court has two sides. On its ordinary docket, the Court answers questions of law after briefing and oral argument. On its extraordinary docket ...
- Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara: An Originalist Defense of Birthright Citizenship† For nearly all of the first 235 years under the Constitution, the citizenship of every child born in the United States to alien parents, with immaterial exce ...
- Biden v. Nebraska: The New State Standing and the (Old) Purposive Major Questions Doctrine Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion in Biden v. Nebraska does not sufficiently explain how Missouri has standing under established Article III doctrine, no ...
- Voids of Constitutional Law Although the U.S. Constitution has long been held out as a model for a particular type of constitutionalism, recent developments have drawn attention t ...
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.
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† 🔥🔥🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Presenting Large Language Models as Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Presenting Large Language Models as Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them ...
- Molt Dynamics: Emergent Social Phenomena in Autonomous AI Agent Populations† 🔥ArXiv link for Molt Dynamics: Emergent Social Phenomena in Autonomous AI Agent Populations ...
- Fundamentals of quantum Boltzmann machine learning with visible and hidden units† 🔥One of the primary applications of classical Boltzmann machines is generative modeling, wherein the goal is to tune the parameters of a model distribution so that it closely approximates a target dist...
- Towards Safer Social Media Platforms: Scalable and Performant Few-Shot Harmful Content Moderation Using Large Language Models 🔥The prevalence of harmful content on social media platforms poses significant risks to users and society, necessitating more effective and scalable content moderation strategies. Current approaches re...
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)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.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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