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.
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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed 
powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push ...
- The America-Ukraine link grows even spottier 🔥🔥🔥The Starlink cut-offs were a test, and worse may follow ...
- Ilhan Omar’s fundraising spikes after federal raid on her home 🔥🔥🔥The Minnesota Democrat took in more than $1.5 million on the day of and day after the Oct. 12 search.
- The Michigan Senate Race Keeps Getting Nastier 🔥🔥Supporters of Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate, have described his Democratic opponent, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, as un-American and worse.
- SpaceX $40 Billion Off-Balance Sheet Debt Snarled by AI Turmoil 🔥SpaceX’s efforts to finalize a $40 billion off-balance-sheet debt structure for its artificial intelligence buildout have been roiled by recent market turmoil that’s driven up sector-wide borrowing co...
- The US west has lost nearly 300 glaciers since the 1960s. Climate crisis is drastically shrinking what’s left 🔥At the midpoint of the last century the region had 1,450 glaciers and a new study reveals the extent of losses ...
- Trump’s justice department files lawsuit to challenge Alaska Senate results, claiming ‘voter confusion’ could favor Democrat – live 🔥Preliminary lawsuit claims there could be ‘voter confusion’ about the two Dan Sullivans on the ballot, which could influence the race’s outcome in favor of the Democratic nominee, Mary Peltola ...
- US judge orders Trump to sit for deposition in $10bn lawsuit against BBC 🔥Judge threatens to dismiss Trump’s BBC lawsuit unless he cooperates with discovery process and sits for deposition ...
- Does Congress Need to Approve the Arch? Trump Says It Did 100 Years Ago. (Gift Article) 🔥The administration says the arch fulfills the “historic design intent” of a proposal from the 1920s. But does it honor history or flout it?
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 BBC Strikes Back 🔥🔥🔥🔥With so much going on right now, we pick up with an unusual Friday afternoon column to cover Trump’s defamation case against the BBC.
- Morally Rotten and Unfit to Serve 🔥From Moscow to Ohio, odious Trump henchmen sink to new lows ...
- The Importance of Voting Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson ...
- Major Deep Dive: How Russia Spent 50 Years Getting Close to Donald Trump—Trump’s Ties Exposed How five decades of business deals, intelligence contacts, and political favors led to a president who now sides with the Kremlin in a war killing Ukrainian civilians ...
- NEWS: Trump’s Election Takeover Fails in Court, Orders Lawsuit to Block Alaska Results, Berates Female Reporter, and More Major Corruption Good evening, everyone.
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.
- HHS telework rollback challenge upheld by FLRA† 🔥🔥🔥Federal Labor Relations Authority members wrote that HHS seemingly used generative AI tools to draft its legal brief, since many of its citations were “fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant.”
- US banks are blocking third-party AI agents access to customer accounts, sources say 🔥🔥They are increasingly concerned sophisticated AI agents could harm the banking system.
- Appeals court lifts block on Mississippi's DEI ban, ejects judge over AI errors 🔥A federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a ruling that blocked Mississippi's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, reassigning the case away from a district court judg...
- Ken Paxton sues ChatGPT-maker OpenAI 🔥CEO Sam Altman and ChatGPT are top competitors to Elon Musk, the tech billionaire fueling Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign.
- SCOTUS Simulator: Argue Before The Nine Argue a landmark case before a simulated Supreme Court bench, live voice or text. Nine AI justices question you, confer, and hand down opinions.
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.
- Election-Related Search Warrants† The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. In most instances, that standard requires a warrant issued upon a presentation of prob ...
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.
- Why are all LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture? On the Hidden Cultural and Regional Biases of LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥LLMs have limitations when it comes to cultural coverage and competence, and in some cases, show specific cultural biases. Although prior studies have examined the cultural capabilities of LLMs, none ...
- Attention Is All You Need† 🔥🔥🔥The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and d...
- AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons† 🔥🔥The scientific literature can be viewed as an "information commons:" an intangible resource that "no one owns and is shared by everyone." There are well-established economic and political frameworks f...
- The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks† 🔥Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of symb...
- A sub-Earth-sized TESS planet candidate in the nearby M-dwarf binary GJ 774, most likely orbiting GJ 774 A (TIC 351339274)† 🔥Small planets transiting the nearest M dwarfs are the terrestrial planets most accessible to detailed characterisation. We report a sub-Earth-sized transiting planet candidate in the wide (17.6") M-dw...
- Bayesian Comparison of Covid Origins Hypotheses 🔥Applying standard Bayesian methods to the most reliably known unclassified facts about the Covid epidemic allows crude estimation of the odds for research-related vs. purely zoonotic origins. Here a b...
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)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe 👻Boo!🎃 dek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.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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