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.
- Trump Announces 10 Percent Tariff on European Countries in Standoff Over Greenland 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea’ 🔥🔥🔥Two decades after its founding, the department has become what its critics feared.
- In Denmark, U.S. lawmakers contradict Trump on Greenland 🔥🔥Leaders of the bipartisan delegation said most Americans don’t want to acquire the territory, and thousands of Danes joined “Hands-off Greenland” protests.
- Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on His Peace Board 🔥🔥The Trump administration is asking countries that want a permanent spot on his new Board of Peace to contribute at least $1 billion.
- Trump wants nations to pay $1 billion to stay on his peace board, report says 🔥🔥The Trump administration wants nations to pay $1 billion to stay on his peace board, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing a draft charter.
- Racial quotas for immigration are back | Heba Gowayed 🔥The Trump administration’s immigration policies hearken back to the racist 1924 Immigration Act, meant to whiten the US ...
- Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US 🔥Heads of state across Europe respond in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland, and boycott of World Cup suggested ...
- The Standoff That Has Turned Minnesota Into a Tinderbox 🔥ICE agents with arrest quotas are colliding with angry Minneapolis residents, a compact city and a relatively small proportion of immigrants in the country illegally.
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.
- Dispatch from the occupation 🔥🔥🔥What life is like in Minneapolis now ...
- The Power of Being Watched 🔥Why hitting the "record" button is an act of moral courage.
- It’s The Cynicism 🔥It seems to be everywhere you look, across the political spectrum.
- Important Update: Justice Department Says No Court Can Force it to Release the Epstein Files as Cover-Up Grows Good morning everyone.
- Will Blatant Injustice Strengthen the Opposition? A Saturday Prompt ...
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.
- A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Google’s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.
- Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft in 'wrongful gains' 🔥🔥🔥Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, saying he deserves "wrongful gains" they received from his early support, according to a court filing.
- Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk’s xAI, Alleging His Company Uses “AI to Undress, Humiliate, and Sexually Exploit Victims”† 🔥🔥xAI filed its own lawsuit the same day, accusing St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s 14 known children, of violating its terms of service.
- Publishers seek to join lawsuit against Google over AI training 🔥Publishers Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group asked a California federal court on Thursday for permission to intervene in a proposed class action lawsuit against Google over the alleged misuse of copyrighted material used to train its artificial intelligence systems.
- AI's Child-Porn Problem Is Getting Much Worse 🔥Thousands of abusive videos were produced last year—that researchers know of.
- Silicon Valley's messiest breakup is definitely headed to court | TechCrunch 🔥OpenAI and Microsoft tried to dodge a courtroom showdown with Elon Musk, but a federal judge on Thursday rejected their requests to dismiss the case.
- "How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Prob" by Amanda Levendowski 🔥As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, we have seen an increase in examples of AI systems reflecting or exacerbating societal bias, from racist facial recognition to sexist na...
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 Ethics of AI in Games: Navigating Legal Responsibility and Creative Rights† 🔥Legal and ethical issues posed by AI in video games development are in point of those related to developer liability, creative rights and consumer protection. T ...
- Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?† This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. According to economic theory, there are two opposing effects of unkno ...
- The Autocratic Legal Playbook This Article examines the development and rapid innovation of the autocratic legal playbook in America: the strategic blueprint used to destroy democracy throug ...
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.
- How AI Destroys Institutions† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life... Unfortunately, the affordances of AI systems extinguish these institutional features at every turn.
- Difference-in-Differences with Time-varying Continuous Treatments using Double/Debiased Machine Learning† 🔥We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) framework designed for time-varying continuous treatments across multiple periods. Specifically, we estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (A...
- Advancing AI Negotiations: A Large-Scale Autonomous Negotiation Competition ArXiv link for Advancing AI Negotiations: A Large-Scale Autonomous Negotiation Competition ...
- Beyond the "Truth": Investigating Election Rumors on Truth Social During the 2024 Election Large language models (LLMs) offer unprecedented opportunities for analyzing social phenomena at scale. This paper demonstrates the value of LLMs in psychological measurement by (1) compiling the firs...
- Online Scheduling for LLM Inference with KV Cache Constraints ArXiv link for Online Scheduling for LLM Inference with KV Cache Constraints ...
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)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin (@justinlawguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) (@shengokai.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.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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