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.
- Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. 🔥🔥The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
- “Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
- MPs to tighten laws allowing foreign donations to influence UK elections Exclusive: changes will end illegitimate funding via shell firms and subject donors to enhanced tests, backed by stronger fines ...
- Trump Claims He 'Never Wrote a Picture in My Life.' He Actually Drew Plenty of Them President Donald Trump denied a Wall Street Journal report alleging he wrote a letter and drew a bawdy picture for Jeffrey Epstein.
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.
- Why We Don't Politicize the Military 🔥🔥🔥When I started working on this piece, it was in the context of Trump‘s announced decision to bring the National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles to quell protests against ICE.
- Homeland Security Keeps Violating Copyright Law Like It's Due Process Or Something - Above the Law 🔥America’s authoritarian cosplay agency forgot basic IP law... again.
- July 17, 2025 🔥Five years ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.
- NEWS: California Democrats Move to Redistrict 5-7 New Democratic Seats to Counter Texas California Democrats may redistrict the state to pick up 5-7 new seats, overnight Senate Republicans passed a package to codify DOGE cuts, Trump fires an Epstein prosecutor, and mass protests planned ...
- NEWS: Donald Trump Diagnosed with Vein Condition, Senate Republicans Block Epstein Files Release, and 15 Year Old Sent to Alligator Alcatraz Trump diagnosed with vein condition, Senate Republicans block Epstein file release, 15 year old sent to Alligator Alcatraz, DeSantis diverted disaster funds to build Alligator Alcatraz, and much 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.
- Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors 🔥🔥🔥The filing alleges “Napster-style downloading of millions of works.”
- Donald Trump Jr. And Eric Trump Invest in AI Data Centers After President Trump Announces Billions In Industry Investments† 🔥🔥Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s venture aligns with their father’s AI policy push, positioning them to potentially profit from government-backed industry growth.
- TIME CHANGE: Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary† 🔥🔥United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary ...
- Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles† 🔥Curious about generative AI and copyright? Subscribers can join WIRED live on July 16 as we answer your questions about this critical topic.
- US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules 🔥A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI system.
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.
- Legally Speaking: Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?† 🔥🔥🔥U.S. district court judges have issued their rulings in two copyright law cases, Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, on whether genAI dev ...
- This Is (NOT) an Emergency: On Trump's "Reciprocal" Tariffs and the Judicial Decisions Declaring Them Illegal On April 2, 2025, "Liberation Day," President Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose the highest US tariff ...
- What Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State Constitutions† State constitutional law has always been an essential component of federalism and a key to understanding the fabric of American law. It is even more important t ...
- A defense of dual character concepts in legal philosophy and beyond† Recent work in jurisprudence claimed that central legal concepts, such as that of LEGAL VALIDITY and of a legal RULE have a dual character structure. Moreover,
- Misleading advertising as a matter of unfair competition law† The prohibition of false and misleading advertising should be the prototypical example of unfair competition law. False and misleading advertising, after all ...
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.
- Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety† 🔥🔥🔥AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave. Like all other known AI oversight methods,...
- Lessons from a Chimp: AI "Scheming" and the Quest for Ape Language 🔥🔥We examine recent research that asks whether current AI systems may be developing a capacity for "scheming" (covertly and strategically pursuing misaligned goals). We compare current research practice...
- Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing | OARR: Open Anthropology Research Repository 🔥
- How Overconfidence in Initial Choices and Underconfidence Under Criticism Modulate Change of Mind in Large Language Models† Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strikingly conflicting behaviors: they can appear steadfastly overconfident in their initial answers whilst at the same time being prone to excessive doubt when challenged. To investigate this apparent paradox, we developed a novel experimental paradigm, exploiting the unique ability to obtain confidence estimates from LLMs without creating memory of their initial judgments -- something impossible in human participants. We show that LLMs -- Gemma 3, GPT4o and o1-preview -- exhibit a pronounced choice-supportive bias that reinforces and boosts their estimate of confidence in their answer, resulting in a marked resistance to change their mind. We further demonstrate that LLMs markedly overweight inconsistent compared to consistent advice, in a fashion that deviates qualitatively from normative Bayesian updating. Finally, we demonstrate that these two mechanisms -- a drive to maintain consistency with prior commitments and hypersensitivity to contradictory feedback -- parsimoniously capture LLM behavior in a different domain. Together, these findings furnish a mechanistic account of LLM confidence that explains both their stubbornness and excessive sensitivity to criticism.
- RTR-GS: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Inverse Rendering with Radiance Transfer and Reflection 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities in novel view synthesis. However, rendering reflective objects remains a significant challenge, particularly in inverse rendering…
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)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Charlotte Garden (@charlottegarden.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee and HONEYMOONING aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nora Benavidez (@attorneynora.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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