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.
- Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.
- Trump Pledges 50% Tariffs Against Brazil, Citing ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Bolsonaro† 🔥🔥
- The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty 🔥
- The Original Birkin Sells for $10 Million 🔥
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Blocks Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Nationwide 🔥
- Opinion | Trolling Democracy 🔥
- Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists 🔥
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.
- The Supreme Court Unbound 🔥🔥The Court’s Casual Rewriting of the Constitution to Its Own Liking ...
- Evidence challenging the Trump admin's immigration moves is now out in the open 🔥The question now is what courts will do to hold the administration accountable for its lawless actions regarding the Alien Enemies Act and other immigration moves.
- Guest, Host, Ghost 🔥A Dinner Party in Kyiv ...
- BREAKING: ICE Officials are "Miserable" as Trump Guts America's Space Flight Program ICE officials are "miserable," Trump gutted America's space flight program overnight, Kristi Noem delayed sending search and rescue teams to Texas for 72 hours, and a Trump nominee could be voted down ...
- NEWS: Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order Blocked Nationwide as ICE Official Resigns in Protest Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order blocked again, ICE attorney resigns in protest, chaos for Republicans in Texas, Trump considered pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, 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.
- A recent high-profile case of AI hallucination serves as a stark warning 🔥🔥🔥🔥MyPillow creator Mike Lindell's lawyers were fined thousands for submitting a legal filing riddled with AI-generated mistakes. It highlights a dilemma of balancing technology and using it responsibly.
- Attorney General Bailey Fights To Expose Big Tech Censorship Of President Trump As AI Chatbots Produce Fake News | Attorney General Office of Missouri† 🔥🔥
- Four senators bought AI stock while Senate considered deregulating AI - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington† 🔥Senators Capito, Moran, Fetterman and Boozman all reported purchases of Google, Nvidia, Meta or Amazon stock while considering AI regulation.
- Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda† 🔥A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out “weaponization.”
- A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump 🔥He’s threatening them with deceptive business practice complaints.
- European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems 🔥Makers of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems face obligations for transparency, copyright protection and public safety. The rules are not enforceable until next year.
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.
- Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness† 🔥🔥🔥Birthright citizenship is a right that has been enjoyed by nearly every person born on American soil for over 150 years. For those that dream and hope for Ameri ...
- The Bitter Ironies of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In the First Year Law School Curriculum† This article severely criticizes the way first-year law teachers and casebook writers teach the famous case of Williams vs. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. The cou ...
- Modeling Immunity in International and Domestic Courts Into what can sometimes appear a chasm of impunity, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji has published a timely new book and call to action, End of Immunity: Holdin ...
- The Double Patenting Puzzle It’s a simple rule: one patent per invention. This is easy to enforce when patent claims in two patents are identical, but what if th ...
- Farmer at 31: Historicizing Trans Rights in Prison Through Intergenerational Dialogue In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Farmer v. Brennan that prison officials can be found deliberately indifferent for failing to protect incarcerated people ...
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.
- Preemptive Solving of Future Problems: Multitask Preplay in Humans and Machines 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Humans can pursue a near-infinite variety of tasks, but typically can only pursue a small number at the same time. We hypothesize that humans leverage experience on one task to preemptively learn solu...
- Log-Normal Multiplicative Dynamics for Stable Low-Precision Training of Large Networks† 🔥🔥🔥Studies in neuroscience have shown that biological synapses follow a log-normal distribution whose transitioning can be explained by noisy multiplicative dynamics. Biological networks can function sta...
- Learning treatment effects while treating those in need† 🔥Many social programs attempt to allocate scarce resources to people with the greatest need. Indeed, public services increasingly use algorithmic risk assessments motivated by this goal. However, targe...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† 🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Limits of Safe AI Deployment: Differentiating Oversight and Control† 🔥Oversight and control (collectively, supervision) are often invoked as key levers for ensuring that AI systems are accountable, reliable, and able to fulfill governance and management requirements. Ho...
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)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Nora Benavidez (@attorneynora.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Siva (@sivav.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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