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.
- Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration arrests in Los Angeles 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.
- New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice 🔥🔥The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.
- Exclusive | A Visual Breakdown of the Trump Birthday Letter to Epstein 🔥We analyze the text and drawing long hidden in the birthday book.
- Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump 🔥
- Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself 🔥
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.
- SCOTUS conservatives OK Trump admin's racial profiling of Latinos in low-wage jobs 🔥🔥Five of the six Republican appointees to the Supreme Court wrote nothing Monday. But their actions, and Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, paint an alarming picture.
- SCOTUS, ICE Raids & The Matter of Facts 🔥There is a lot one can say about today’s Supreme Court order lifting the stay issued by a federal district court in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo,[i]. This is the case that challenges the constitutionality o...
- Affirmed: E. Jean Carroll Case 🔥I asked Robbie Kaplan, the lawyer who tried the case, how she felt after learning that the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the $83.3 million verdict a jury awarded E.
- The Nuclear Option: Why Democrats May Have to Shut Down the Federal Government to Stop Donald Trump 🔥What do we have left to lose?
- BREAKING: House Oversight Committee Releases Donald Trump's Birthday Note to Jeffrey Epstein House Oversight Committee released Trump's lewd note to Epstein for his 50th birthday, Trump downplays domestic abuse during Museum of Bible speech, Supreme Court green-lights racial profiling ...
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.
- If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector 🔥🔥🔥There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the ...
- ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers 🔥🔥A new contract with Clearview AI explicitly says ICE is buying the tech to investigate "assaults against law enforcement officers."
- What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild† 🔥Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
- Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1) 🔥The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors...
- Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.
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.
- Jurisdiction Stripping as a Tool for Democratic Reform of the Supreme Court: Written Testimony for The Presidential Commission On The Supreme Court of the United States 🔥🔥In this written testimony I will focus in depth on what I believe to be the most promising strategy for reducing the power of courts. That is for Congress to us ...
- Disability and Constitutional Legitimacy† Disability classifications can take one of two forms. The more familiar form targets people with disabilities on account of their disability, and harms them. Th ...
- 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 ...
- Existing Together from the Beginning: Freedom to Contract and Black Mutual Aid In a new wave of litigation, conservative legal organizations are attempting to rely on Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation to prevent nonprofits ...
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.
- What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? 🔥🔥While it seems sensible that human-centred artificial intelligence (AI) means centring "human behaviour and experience," it cannot be any other way. AI, I argue, is usefully seen as a relationship bet...
- Are LLM Agents Behaviorally Coherent? Latent Profiles for Social Simulation 🔥🔥The impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have fueled the notion that synthetic agents can serve as substitutes for real participants in human-subject research. In an effort to evalu...
- Faux Polyglot: A Study on Information Disparity in Multilingual Large Language Models 🔥🔥Although the multilingual capability of LLMs offers new opportunities to overcome the language barrier, do these capabilities translate into real-life scenarios where linguistic divide and knowledge c...
- Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI system...
- When and Why is Persuasion Hard? A Computational Complexity Result 🔥ArXiv link for When and Why is Persuasion Hard? A Computational Complexity Result ...
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)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org) (relegated)
- Dan Immergluck (@danimmergluck.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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