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.
- Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. 🔥🔥🔥🔥How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
- The American Abyss (Published 2021) 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela clouded in confusion 🔥🔥In Washington and Caracas, the vision for administering Venezuela in the weeks and months ahead appears uncertain and stubbornly complex.
- Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group 🔥🔥
- US action in Venezuela not legal, senior Labour MP says 🔥🔥UK must make clear US operation is unacceptable, chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Emily Thornberry says.
- Trump’s Venezuela Oil Revival Plan Is a $100 Billion Gamble 🔥Realizing President Donald Trump’s plan for a US-led revival of Venezuela’s beleaguered oil industry could be a years-long and challenging process costing upwards of $100 billion.
- Danish PM tells Trump to stop 'threats' against Greenland† 🔥Mette Frederiksen said the ...
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 Dog That Didn't Bark in the Maduro Op 🔥🔥🔥Cuban intelligence runs Venezuela's security apparatus. Where was it when the U.S. snatched the Venezuelan strongman?
- The Imperialism Has no Clothes 🔥🔥JD Vance in Greenland ...
- This Is What Happens When America Goes Mad Vote in Donald Trump, surround him with sycophants, expect an insane circus. The lawlessness and chaos was so knowable, alas.
- January 6 Again Donald Trump is the President no one has ever said “no” to in a big way.
- DOJ, Virginia A.G. manufacture lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants Virginia A.G. Jason Miyares is trying to harm undocumented students in his last days in office — but a nonprofit is pushing back. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
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.
- Big Tech's AI Power-Grab 🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro's Capture† 🔥From seemingly AI-generated videos to the recirculation of old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela.
- Alaska's court system built an AI chatbot. It didn’t go smoothly.† A yearlong effort to build an AI probate assistant reveals the limits of government chatbot development.
- Senator Pushes Zuckerberg on "Perverse Abuse" of Nudify Ads After 404 Media Report Senator Dick Durbin presses Meta to explain why it can’t stop sending traffic to nonconsensual AI image generators that violate its policy.
- EU says 'seriously looking' into Musk's Grok AI over sexual deepfakes of minors The chatbot's maker said it was scrambling to fix flaws in its AI tool after an ...
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.
- The Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy† 🔥This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency ap ...
- Every True Story Ends in Death: How the Roberts Court Killed Originalism† Although there are at least six justices on the Roberts Court who identify as strong or moderate originalists, none of them exercise judicial review in an origi ...
- Equality and Protection: The Forgotten Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment At the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause are two fundamental principles: equality and protection. Tragically, the Supreme Court ...
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.
- Can LLMs Estimate Student Struggles? Human-AI Difficulty Alignment with Proficiency Simulation for Item Difficulty Prediction† 🔥🔥Accurate estimation of item (question or task) difficulty is critical for educational assessment but suffers from the cold start problem. While Large Language Models demonstrate superhuman problem-sol...
- BOAD: Discovering Hierarchical Software Engineering Agents via Bandit Optimization ArXiv link for BOAD: Discovering Hierarchical Software Engineering Agents via Bandit Optimization ...
- Mental Models and Financial Forecasts We uncover the mental models financial professionals use to explain their quantitative forecasts, and show how they shape beliefs and return predictabi ...
- Contextual Causal Bayesian Optimisation We introduce a unified framework for contextual and causal Bayesian optimisation, which aims to design intervention policies maximising the expectation of a target variable. Our approach leverages bot...
- Attention Is Not What You Need We revisit a basic question in sequence modeling: is explicit self-attention actually necessary for strong performance and reasoning? We argue that standard multi-head attention is best seen as a form...
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)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nobody Can Stop Popehat (@kenwhite.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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