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.
- Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Greenland: Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged influence operation 🔥The aim was reportedly to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark.
- There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr ...
- Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
- New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says
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.
- Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment 🔥🔥🔥“The objective of this contract is to obtain all infrastructure, including temporary housing structures, physical plant, staffing, resources, services, and supplies necessary to house aliens in the cu...
- BREAKING: Tragedy at Minneapolis Catholic School: Mass Shooting Claims Lives of Two Children, 17 Injured 🔥A mass shooting shook the Annunciation Catholic Church and School community in south Minneapolis this morning, leaving two children dead and at least 17 others wounded, 14 of them children.
- August 27, 2025 🔥The image of National Guard troops, some of them from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi, in Washington, D.C., spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, il...
- Two years after Buffalo mass shooting, Trump's GOP is all-in on racist theory that motivated it It’s typical now to hear MAGA Republicans spewing the toxic bigotry that forms the basis of the "great replacement theory."
- NEWS: A Seismic Upset in Iowa as Democrats Shock the Country in Special Election A seismic upset in Iowa as Democrats shocked the country in a special election, FEMA employees warn of Katrina-level disaster, Denmark summons America's ambassador over spying claims, and more ...
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.
- Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action 🔥🔥🔥🔥Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
- Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors† Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
- Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. His parents are suing the company and its CEO.
- Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children† Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
- ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims† As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.
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.
- Bias and the “Low Bar” of Relevance† 🔥Relevance, commonly understood as the cornerstone of evidence law, determines what the legal system acknowledges as a fact and which facts matter, t ...
- Law, Borders, and Speech Conference: Proceedings and Materials Tensions between national law and the Internet’s global architecture have existed since the network’s earliest days. They took on new urgency in recent years, w ...
- Of Labor, Antitrust, and Why the Proposed House Settlement Will Not Solve the NCAA's Problem† The NCAA recently settled three antitrust lawsuits. With a significant payout, it hopes to put its antitrust worries behind it. In doing so, it seeks to follow ...
- The Administrative Law of McCarthyism† This Article recovers the largely overlooked legal and administrative history of the federal loyalty-security program, and argues that it played a formative ...
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.
- Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...
- Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens† AI Alignment, primarily in the form of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has been a cornerstone of the post-training phase in developing Large Language Models (LLMs). It has also been...
- Foundation Models for Bioacoustics -- a Comparative Review Automated bioacoustic analysis is essential for biodiversity monitoring and conservation, requiring advanced deep learning models that can adapt to diverse bioacoustic tasks. This article presents a comprehensive review of large-scale pretrained bioacoustic foundation models and systematically investigates their transferability across multiple bioacoustic classification tasks. We overview bioacoustic representation learning including major pretraining data sources and benchmarks. On this basis, we review bioacoustic foundation models by thoroughly analysing design decisions such as model architecture, pretraining scheme, and training paradigm. Additionally, we evaluate selected foundation models on classification tasks from the BEANS and BirdSet benchmarks, comparing the generalisability of learned representations under both linear and attentive probing strategies. Our comprehensive experimental analysis reveals that BirdMAE, trained on large-scale bird song data with a self-supervised objective, achieves the best performance on the BirdSet benchmark. On BEANS, BEATs$_{NLM}$, the extracted encoder of the NatureLM-audio large audio model, is slightly better. Both transformer-based models require attentive probing to extract the full performance of their representations. ConvNext$_{BS}$ and Perch models trained with supervision on large-scale bird song data remain competitive for passive acoustic monitoring classification tasks of BirdSet in linear probing settings. Training a new linear classifier has clear advantages over evaluating these models without further training. While on BEANS, the baseline model BEATs trained with self-supervision on AudioSet outperforms bird-specific models when evaluated with attentive probing. These findings provide valuable guidance for practitioners selecting appropriate models to adapt them to new bioacoustic classification tasks via probing.
- Let's Use ChatGPT To Write Our Paper! Benchmarking LLMs To Write the Introduction of a Research Paper As researchers increasingly adopt LLMs as writing assistants, generating high-quality research paper introductions remains both challenging and essential. We introduce Scientific Introduction Generati...
- A Taxonomy of Transcendence† ArXiv link for A Taxonomy of Transcendence ...
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)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (promoted)
- dburbach.bsky.social (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Jaakko Husa (@husajaakko.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Hypervisible (@hypervisible.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Whale-Killing Windmill Hate (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.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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