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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.
- Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited. 🔥
- Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President 🔥
- Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump 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.
- Maduro & Venezuela: What Happens Next 🔥🔥And, a very special Substack Live Sunday morning ...
- Can We Weaken Trump's Criminal Rule? 🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt as Trump attacks Venezuela ...
- Trump: ‘I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars’ 🔥🔥* * *
- BREAKING: United States Strikes Venezuela and Captures Nicolas Maduro and his Wife 🔥The Venezuelan leader and his wife are now indicted in the Southern District of New York. Further details coming soon.
- A new, old type of lawlessness as Trump attacks Venezuela — and an opening for a better America 🔥The legal discussion is dark in the wake of the U.S. military taking Nicolás Maduro to the U.S. The path America is on today, however, is not where we need to go.
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.
- How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
- Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X† 🔥Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements ...
- Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro's Capture From seemingly AI-generated videos to the recirculation of old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela.
- Paramount Press Express | “60 MINUTES” LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 4 Airs 7:30-8:30 PM, ET/ 7:00-8:00 PT, After NFL Football, on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+ HERE COME THE HUMANOIDS – For decades, engineers h ...
- Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Wikipedia Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for f…
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.
- The Sovereignty of Personal Jurisdiction 🔥 We are in a heyday of personal jurisdiction at the Supreme Court. Yet amidst its many recent decisions in this area, the Court has not managed to ...
- THE GLOBAL LEVIATHAN'S LAW STICK: Judicial Imperialism and "State Terror" as Extraterritorial Jurisdiction The twenty-first-century international relations system is witnessing a radical rupture from the classical Westphalian understanding of sovereignty. At the cent ...
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.
- DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning…
- More than Carbon: Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU† 🔥The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has intensified concerns about its environmental sustainability. Current assessments focus on operational carbon emissions using secondary data, ove...
- Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations† ArXiv link for Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations ...
- Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?† The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises which are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. Language engineers are playing a central role, persisting ...
- ExPLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Extended Pre-Training to Adapt Vision Transformers under Domain Shifts† ArXiv link for ExPLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Extended Pre-Training to Adapt Vision Transformers under Domain Shifts ...
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)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nobody Can Stop Popehat (@kenwhite.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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