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.
- Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump 🔥🔥🔥🔥Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff ...
- NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast 🔥🔥🔥The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday ...
- Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says 🔥🔥Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tues...
- A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules 🔥
- ‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas 🔥
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 Long Ukrainian Winter 🔥🔥🔥How You Can Help ...
- Nigel Farage’s Epstein Hypocrisy 🔥The Reform leader's own connections to the Jeffrey Epstein story are far deeper than he now pretends ...
- Important Update: Horrific New and Significant Epstein Files Revealed as Pam Bondi Faces Scrutiny on Capitol Hill 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Important Update: White House Demands Silence from Republicans on Epstein as Bombshell Phone Call Between Foreign Intelligence and Trump Official Revealed 🔥I am deep in my review of the Epstein files this Saturday and can report urgent, exclusive developments.
- Major Update: Bombshell Documents Reveal Business Relationship Between top Trump Official and Epstein as White House Engulfed in Scandal 🔥Good morning everyone, and happy Saturday.
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.
- The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
- Victims urge tougher action on deepfake abuse as new law comes into force Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough Victims of deepfake image abuse have called for stronger protection against AI-generated explicit images, as the law criminalising the creation of non-consensual intimate images comes into effect. Campaigners from Stop Image-Based Abuse delivered a petition to Downing Street with more than 73,000 signatures, urging the government to introduce civil routes to justice such as takedown orders for abusive imagery on platforms and devices. Continue reading...
- Trump Administration Official Says Quiet Part Out Loud on AI-in-Government Plans† A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal, writes Jordan Ascher.
- Randomly quoting Ray Bradbury did not save lawyer from losing case over AI errors† Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.
- AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detectors† People are using generative AI to flood courts with filings, legislatures with constituent letters and publications with submissions. AI detectors are no silver bullet.
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.
- Paying For The Crime And The Time: Pay-To-Stay Laws And Constitutional Limits† 🔥Pay-to-stay laws allow states to seek reimbursement from currently or formerly incarcerated people for the costs of their incarceration. These statutes impose s ...
- Responsible AI Agents Thanks to advances in large language models, a new type of software agent, the artificial intelligence (AI) agent, has entered the marketplace. Companies such a ...
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.
- Do Models Hear Like Us? Probing the Representational Alignment of Audio LLMs and Naturalistic EEG 🔥🔥🔥Audio Large Language Models (Audio LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in integrating speech perception with language understanding. However, whether their internal representations align with ...
- The Limits of Regulating AI Safety Through Liability and Insurance: Lessons From Cybersecurity† 🔥As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in decision-making, design, and development across public and private sectors, proposals to ...
- Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini: Case Studies and Common Techniques Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have opened new avenues for accelerating scientific research. While models are increasingly capable of assisting with routine tasks, their ability to co...
- The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding†
- Verifying the Verifiers: Unveiling Pitfalls and Potentials in Fact Verifiers ArXiv link for Verifying the Verifiers: Unveiling Pitfalls and Potentials in Fact Verifiers ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- In The Ancient Libraries of Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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