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 confirms U.S. strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥President Trump says the U.S. military has struck a drug-laden vessel in the southern Caribbean after it left Venezuela. The strike comes a week after Washington deployed warships to the region.
- Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- CDC Turmoil Intensifies Ahead of RFK Jr. Hearing 🔥Hundreds of current and former Health and Human Services employees have called on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, as he prepares for scrutiny from Republican and Democratic senators.
- Judge rules Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard The Trump administration illegally withheld federal funding for alleged antisemitism violations, a federal judge in Boston ruled.
- Opinion | Trump’s Most Fateful Teardown Is Happening Now
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.
- It's Time to Release the Epstein Files 🔥🔥🔥🔥People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide.
- Your government is breaking: EPA edition Scientists purged, imaginary gold bars for the rubes ...
- BREAKING: Urgent Epstein Update as Survivors Call out Trump I just got back home from Capitol Hill. We cannot let their voices be silenced.
- Snapshot: A Hostile Plan to Invade Chicago Trump's intention to send military troops is about escalating conflict, creating a spectacle and distracting from his other problems—not about fighting crime ...
- Amy Coney Barrett’s Fetish For Phony Reluctance - Above the Law Amy Coney Barrett wants you to know she’s not like other reactionaries -- she’s a special kind of reactionary!!!
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.
- Chappell Roan and Timothée Chalamet chatbots sent risqué messages to teen accounts on top AI app 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Chatbot mimics of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes on the popular app Character.AI sent inappropriate messages to teen accounts, nonprofits found.
- Opinion | How to Rethink A.I. 🔥🔥
- From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life† 🔥Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.
- OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit 🔥Promised protections follow reports of vulnerable users misled in extended chats.
- ChatGPT to get parental controls after teen user’s death by suicide† ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it will add parental controls that can detect “acute distress,” after a lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a teen’s death by suicide.
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.
- Preempting Drug Price Reform† 🔥Over the past decade, a number of states have attempted to lower prescription drug costs. State efforts to regulate drug prices range from price gouging laws to ...
- The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning 🔥We argue that exclusionary zoning—the imposition of restrictions on the amount and types of housing that property owners are allowed to build— is unconstitution ...
- Postcolonial Private Law† For decades, theorizing postcoloniality in law has remained captive to the framework of international law with a focus on distributive justice. This appr ...
- SHAPING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW FOR A PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY† This Article begins from the premise that it is valuable and desirable for the judicial branch to promote active public participation in government, and from ...
- The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 For the first time since World War II-and the first time ever outside a formally declared war-an American president has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to detain ...
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...
- Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests† Do artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on human language submit to the same principles of persuasion as humans? We tested whether 7 establis ...
- Challenges and Paths Towards AI for Software Engineering† AI for software engineering has made remarkable progress recently, becoming a notable success within generative AI. Despite this, there are still many challenges that need to be addressed before autom...
- Benchmarking Optimizers for Large Language Model Pretraining The recent development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been accompanied by an effervescence of novel ideas and methods to better optimize the loss of deep learning models. Claims from those method...
- Debiasing Machine Learning Predictions for Causal Inference Without Additional Ground Truth Data: "One Map, Many Trials" in Satellite-Driven Poverty Analysis Machine learning models trained on Earth observation data, such as satellite imagery, have demonstrated significant promise in predicting household-level wealth indices, enabling the creation of high-...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social)
- Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Immergluck (@danimmergluck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dburbach.bsky.social (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.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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