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.
- Fired CDC director who clashed with RFK Jr. set to testify in Senate 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The hearing would give Susan Monarez a high-profile opportunity to respond to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about her ethics and their conversations about vaccines.
- Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI 🔥🔥Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
- Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayor’s Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds 🔥🔥
- The New Symbol of the Brazilian Right: the American Flag 🔥
- Trump Administration Quietly Seeks to Build National Voter Roll 🔥
- Judge blocks Justice Department's transgender care subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital 🔥A federal judge on Tuesday quashed a subpoena the U.S. Department of Justice had issued to Boston Children's Hospital as part of a wide-ranging investigation into doctors and clinics that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth.
- The US stopped showing up to disasters. The results are horrifying. 🔥Emergency response’s newfound sluggishness, explained by earthquakes and landslides.
- Author of 'How to Kill a Federal Judge' manifesto arrested, US prosecutors say 🔥A Minnesota man has been charged with threatening to assault and murder a federal judge after staff at a local library spotted him printing copies of a 236-page manifesto entitled “How to Kill a Federal Judge," U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.
- The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing 🔥The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
- Oliver North weds Fawn Hall, his secretary during Iran-contra scandal 🔥Oliver North and Fawn Hall, two figures in the 1980s controversy, tied the knot last month, according to a Virginia marriage license.
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.
- Feds indict LGBTQ org lawyer over testimony in Alabama "judge-shopping" investigation 🔥🔥🔥In an indictment unsealed Monday, Lambda Legal counsel Carl Charles faces a felony charge of making a false declaration to the investigating judicial panel.
- 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.
- Should Democrats Shut Down the Government? 🔥It’s the only way they can fight back against the Trump catastrophe ...
- Nepal PM Oli resigns as Gen Z protesters set parliament building on fire 🔥Protesters break into parliament building and set it on fire after Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli resigns.
- ICYMI: My conversation with Heather Cox Richardson If you weren’t able to join us live Monday evening, Heather Cox Richardson and I had a fabulous conversation, and you can watch us now. The historical context Heather brings to this moment is incredib...
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…
- Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI 🔥🔥Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
- 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."
- WSJ Epstein Letter ‘Polar Opposite’ Of Trump’s Writing Style: 3 Forensic Analyses Reach Same Verdict 🔥A forensic linguistic analysis conducted by three leading AI research systems unanimously concluded there was an “extremely low probability” that a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that include...
- 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...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- Source & Solidarity Trademark law has become the new frontier of union-busting. Companies like Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, and Medieval Times have brought unprecedented suits against ...
- Eyewitness for the Legal Profession Interviews with the Members of the Samsun Bar Association I Kamil Aral was born after the Second World War. The son of 'mübadil' immigrants from the Balkans, he grew up in a village in Samsun where opportunities were ...
- 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...
- An Incidental Standard for Medical AI 🔥🔥Medical AI is poised to make a major difference in the provision of health. It brings major challenges, though: how can developers and implementers ens ...
- 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...
- 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)
- Stand With Chicago Hat (@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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