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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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.
- Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools 🔥🔥🔥🔥A longstanding diversity and inclusion requirement for U.S. law schools is teetering amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration and Republican states.
- Western men are going abroad to find traditional wives 🔥🔥🔥Frustration with modern dating has fuelled the rise of “passport bros”
- Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group† 🔥🔥Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle ...
- MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus 🔥Federal funding cuts have curtailed research at elite universities such as MIT, dulling America’s competitive edge globally.
- Wealth of Britain’s 157 billionaires now equal to 22% of country’s GDP 🔥This ‘ghost GDP’ shows how headline economic growth is increasingly disconnected from reality for most, says report ...
- Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree. 🔥Perched behind the cash register at Stubs liquor store, Amy Van Duyn gazed out the window at a red-and-green gasoline price sign, which she said seemed to tick up daily.
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.
- Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0 🔥🔥🔥🔥Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
- Trump Is Not the Golden Calf. He’s King Nebuchadnezzar. Trump’s Golden 'Don Colossus' is a yet another warning sign of America's imperial decline.
- How to Lie with a Chart, by the U.S. Government Charts are a beautiful language. Which is why this kind of cherry-picking is such a betrayal.
- Important Saturday Update: MAGA Infighting Erupts, Trump's Stock Trading Exposed, Large Protests Against SCOTUS Across the South Good evening, everyone.
- NEWS: Trump to Control 'Truth' Commission to Pay Billions to Allies, Thousands March in Alabama, GOP Upset Over China Summit Good morning, 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.
- The Humanities Score a Victory Against Trump 🔥🔥🔥DOGE used ChatGPT to cancel research grants. A federal judge wouldn’t have it.
- OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn't be the first partner to feel burned | TechCrunch† 🔥🔥🔥According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an outside law firm to work through its options.
- Musk's China trip during OpenAI trial prompts apology from his lawyer for CEO's absence† 🔥🔥Musk sued his OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, alleging they had violated a promise to keep their company a nonprofit.
- Elsevier vs. Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers 🔥🔥Nature - Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
- The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial† 🔥A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.
- Authors fight for higher payouts from Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement 🔥Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.
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.
- "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse† 🔥If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
- Section 7 of the Charter and the Constitutional Limits on Rolling Back Supervised Consumption Services† This paper examines the constitutional limits imposed by section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on government effort ...
- The Social Costs (and Benefits) of Dual-Class Stock† Dual-class stock creates a two-tiered ownership structure that allows new investors to buy a piece of a fast-growing company, with just one catch: they become s ...
- Advisers by Another Name The rise of index funds has reshaped the modern American capital markets. Like mutual fund managers, indices now direct trillions of dollars of investor capital ...
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.
- LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
- Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions† One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
- Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training† We introduce Negation Neglect, where finetuning LLMs on documents that flag a claim as false makes them believe the claim is true. For example, models are finetuned on documents that convey "Ed Sheera...
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance† People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...
- Are we Doomed to an AI Race? Why Self-Interest Could Drive Countries Towards a Moratorium on Superintelligence This paper uses game theory to argue that, contrary to the prevailing view, a moratorium on Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) can be in a state's self-interest. By formalizing trategic interactions 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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Not In Word List Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.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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