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.
- The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Backlash over the proliferation of data centers has entered the national political conversation and could affect voters of all political persuasions in this year’s midterm elections.
- Can You Optimize Love? 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Jamie Raskin: Jan. 6 Never Ended 🔥🔥
- US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House 🔥It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark, which is pushing back against Trump's ambitions for the Arctic island.
- US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals 🔥Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%
- Judge rejects DOJ's subpoena to Children's Hospital Colorado over transgender care 🔥The U.S. Department of Justice has suffered another setback in its efforts to subpoena providers of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in order to obtain patient information and details about...
- Congress Is Divided Over Maduro Raid After First Briefing 🔥
- He was attacked on Jan. 6. Can he make sense of it for the kids he teaches? 🔥Nathan Tate was a D.C. police officer defending the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Now he’s trying to find the lesson in it.
- January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history 🔥President and Republican allies have tried to make sure the deadly attack on the Capitol has been erased from memory ...
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.
- January 6 Again 🔥🔥🔥Donald Trump is the President no one has ever said “no” to in a big way.
- Snapshot: Accountability and Telling the Truth 🔥On this fifth anniversary of the J6 Capitol attack, let's resolve that we will hold the criminals accountable when our current dark chapter is over ...
- The Dangerous Revision Of Jan 6 History On The Official WH Website 🔥As I wrote to you last night, five years on from January 6, Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the insurrection.
- Urgent: The White House is Rewriting History About January 6th Using Your Taxpayer Dollars. I Expose It. 🔥How a taxpayer-funded website rewrites history, and why sworn testimony, court records, and hard evidence tell a very different story ...
- Five years later, as Trump's lies continue, the danger of the January 6 insurrection remains An offensive White House web site of lies is an apt anniversary marker — not just of where Trump is but of where the many institutional failures to stop him have led us.
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.
- Big Tech's AI Power-Grab† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer 🔥This may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speech, says journalist and content creator Sophia Smith Galer ...
- German minister calls for EU legal steps over Grok images on Musk's X 🔥German media minister Wolfram Weimer urged the European Commission on Tuesday to take legal action to stop what he called the "industrialisation of sexual harassment" taking place on Elon Musk's social media platform X.
- Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it? Sexualized AI images violate consent and boundaries, but legal consequences can be elusive.
- Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy | TechPolicy.Press Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action against Elon Musk's company.
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 Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy† 🔥🔥This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency ap ...
- A Lost Opportunity to Protect Democracy Against Itself: What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in Trump v. Anderson 🔥In Trump v. Anderson, a divided Supreme Court achieved unusual unanimity in an important case. All nine Justices agreed that state governments could n ...
- Every True Story Ends in Death: How the Roberts Court Killed Originalism† Although there are at least six justices on the Roberts Court who identify as strong or moderate originalists, none of them exercise judicial review in an origi ...
- Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook (v.2) Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook is a comprehensive casebook covering all the fundamentals of the United States patent system. It is designed to be used a ...
- Statutory Backups for Endangered Constitutional Rights This Article concerns the phenomenon of "statutory backup rights," or statutes that provide protections parallel to constitutional rights that are bel ...
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.
- Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning 🔥🔥🔥Large-scale autoregressive models pretrained on next-token prediction and finetuned with reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved unprecedented success on many problem domains. During RL, these model...
- Can LLMs Estimate Student Struggles? Human-AI Difficulty Alignment with Proficiency Simulation for Item Difficulty Prediction† 🔥🔥Accurate estimation of item (question or task) difficulty is critical for educational assessment but suffers from the cold start problem. While Large Language Models demonstrate superhuman problem-sol...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task ArXiv link for Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task ...
- Structured Decomposition for LLM Reasoning: Cross-Domain Validation and Semantic Web Integration Rule-based reasoning over natural language input arises in domains where decisions must be auditable and justifiable: clinical protocols specify eligibility criteria in prose, evidence rules define ad...
- BOAD: Discovering Hierarchical Software Engineering Agents via Bandit Optimization† ArXiv link for BOAD: Discovering Hierarchical Software Engineering Agents via Bandit Optimization ...
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)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- We’re Going To Keep The Popehat (@kenwhite.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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