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.
- Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Enough With the Trump Era Compulsion 🔥
- “The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention 🔥One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
- Mandelson: more ‘very embarrassing’ details of Epstein friendship to come 🔥UK ambassador to US says he regrets continuing his association with paedophile financier ‘far longer than I should have done’
- Ellison Tops Musk as World’s Richest Man After $101 Billion Gain 🔥Larry Ellison has become the world’s richest person for the first time, ending Elon Musk’s nearly year-long reign in the top spot.
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.
- On Political Violence 🔥🔥🔥Tonight, people from across the political spectrum should be joining together to condemn political violence, no matter who the target is.
- SCOTUS rejects S.C. request to enforce anti-trans restroom policy against trans student 🔥The boy, known as John Doe, will be allowed to use the boys' restroom while litigation proceeds. Also: About the administrative stays Chief Justice Roberts is giving Trump.
- September 10, 2025 Last night, Polish forces shot down 19 Russian drones that invaded Poland’s airspace during a massive Russian air attack on Ukraine.
- BREAKING: NATO Invokes Article 4 Following Russian Drone Incursion in Poland NATO invokes Article 4 for the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Trump heckled at a D.C. restaurant, White House supports forensic review of Trump's signature, and more.
- The demise of academic freedom in Texas Two cases in quick succession shows how politicization has broken Texas A&M ...
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.
- Editing Legal Scholarship 🔥🔥Legal scholars love to complain about the law review publishing process. Many of them overreact to the existence of student editors and the occasional rou ...
- POLICE PROSECUTION OUTCOMES 🔥When it comes to prosecutions of police officers for homicide-related offenses, opinions are plentiful but data is scarce. Many believe that officers are too ...
- 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 ...
- The Genesis of Constitutions: A Natural Language Processing Approach by Tejas Ramdas, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-chien Chang, Tom Ginsburg :: SSRN The diffusion of constitutional ideas and models has been the subject of extensive scholarship. In this paper, we use natural language processing methods to exa ...
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.
- 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 ...
- Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments 🔥ArXiv link for Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments ...
- When and Why is Persuasion Hard? A Computational Complexity Result† ArXiv link for When and Why is Persuasion Hard? A Computational Complexity Result ...
- An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments. To address this, we present an AI system that creates expert-level scientific software whose goal is to maximize a quality metric. The system uses a Large Language Model (LLM) and Tree Search (TS) to systematically improve the quality metric and intelligently navigate the large space of possible solutions. The system achieves expert-level results when it explores and integrates complex research ideas from external sources. The effectiveness of tree search is demonstrated across a wide range of benchmarks. In bioinformatics, it discovered 40 novel methods for single-cell data analysis that outperformed the top human-developed methods on a public leaderboard. In epidemiology, it generated 14 models that outperformed the CDC ensemble and all other individual models for forecasting COVID-19 hospitalizations. Our method also produced state-of-the-art software for geospatial analysis, neural activity prediction in zebrafish, time series forecasting and numerical solution of integrals. By devising and implementing novel solutions to diverse tasks, the system represents a significant step towards accelerating scientific progress.
- A Fragile Number Sense: Probing the Elemental Limits of Numerical Reasoning in LLMs ArXiv link for A Fragile Number Sense: Probing the Elemental Limits of Numerical Reasoning in LLMs ...
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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