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.
- ‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check ...
- Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections 🔥🔥
- Royal Mail staff tell BBC letters sit undelivered as firm prioritises parcels 🔥Staff and customers tell the BBC prioritising parcels can mean missed NHS appointments and late payment fines.
- Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality 🔥
- Children 'weaponised' in toxic trans debate, Cass says 🔥Clinician Dr Hilary Cass says ...
- Unions and Labour MPs call on Starmer to end ‘narrow factional agenda’ 🔥Letter signed by 25 rebel MPs claims approach from the top is ‘increasingly unpopular’ with public ...
- Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core 🔥Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 10% of the true number of cases ...
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 Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission 🔥🔥Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 308 🔥… A huge revelation in Epstein files documents unearthed by investigative reporter Roger Sollenberger: “Maybe the biggest story in the country here.
- Major Good News Updates!! 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Major News: New Epstein Files Reveal Evidence That Shows Pam Bondi Misled Congress as DOJ Faces Intensifying Backlash 🔥Good evening everyone.
- When the Nation’s Top Lawyer Treats Ethics as Optional 🔥How a decade of ethical evasion paved the way for Pam Bondi’s partisan performance ...
- Saying Goodbye to My Dad 🔥With integrity, intellect, humor, and devotion to country and family ...
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.
- ChatGPT cuts in action† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- CU signs $2M OpenAI deal for ChatGPT access† 🔥Students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu starting in March under a three-year deal.
- He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it. 🔥NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.
- Scoop: Disney sends cease and desist letter to ByteDance over Seedance 2.0† The letter includes a slew of examples of infringing Seedance videos that feature Disney's copyrighted characters.
- Memorandum & Opinion – #846 in In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-md-03143) – CourtListener.com OPINION & ORDER RE: OPENAI'S DELETION OF BOOKS1 AND BOOKS2 DATASETS AND PRIVILEGE RULINGS (ECF NOS. 413, 428, 479, 481, 504, 505, 615, 616) re: (226 in 1:24-cv-00084-SHS-OTW, 413 in 1:25-md-03143-SHS-...
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.
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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.
- How AI Impacts Skill Formation† 🔥🔥AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...
- Agentic AI Security: Threats, Defenses, Evaluation, and Open Challenges Agentic AI systems powered by large language models (LLMs) and endowed with planning, tool use, memory, and autonomy, are emerging as powerful, flexible platforms for automation. Their ability to autonomously execute tasks across web, software, and physical environments creates new and amplified se…
- Self-EvolveRec: Self-Evolving Recommender Systems with LLM-based Directional Feedback Traditional methods for automating recommender system design, such as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), are often constrained by a fixed search space defined by human priors, limiting innovation to pr...
- ThinkRouter: Efficient Reasoning via Routing Thinking between Latent and Discrete Spaces ArXiv link for ThinkRouter: Efficient Reasoning via Routing Thinking between Latent and Discrete Spaces ...
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)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- I Used To Snort Cocaine Off Of Popehats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.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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