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.
- Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation 🔥🔥
- DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship† 🔥Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
- USAID cuts may cause 14 million more deaths in next five years, study says 🔥The analysis, published in the Lancet, estimates the agency’s programs saved 91 million lives worldwide over two decades, playing a vital role in global health.
- Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes
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.
- Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners 🔥🔥🔥Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners ...
- SCOTUS's parental rights messages: Protect anti-LGBTQ views, ignore LGBTQ people 🔥The court protected religious parents' rights in a case over LGBTQ-related books in classrooms. Days later, the court turned away requests from parents of trans kids.
- A Court Without the Range 🔥The Reconstruction Court 2.0 ...
- Snapshot: An Immoral Bill, Delivered By A Cult Every Democrat opposed it, all but three Republicans supported it, most Americans reject it, but the Senate passed this repugnant legislation anyway ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 163. 7/1/25 … The budget bill passed the Senate 51-50 today with VP JD Vance breaking the tie.
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.
- Senate Removes Tax Bill Provision Limiting State AI Regulation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss for the Silicon Valley leaders and White House officials who pushed the measure.
- In dramatic reversal, Senate votes to kill AI-law moratorium 🔥🔥A GOP-led bid to stop states from regulating AI collapsed after a deal to save it fell through.
- Ted Cruz gives up on AI law moratorium, joins 99-1 vote against his own plan The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
- Slow Vote-a-Rama to Nowhere Little progress and much confusion as the Senate slogs it out through the night.
- Representatives | house.gov
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.
- NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment† 🔥Over the past quarter-century, industrial speech law and policy have converged on novel First Amendment questions about the regulation of the dominant Internet ...
- What Hath Obergefell Wrought Ten years have passed since the United States Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges. According to Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion—and the Court’s i ...
- Legislative Design and the Controllable Costs of Special Legislation† Legislation that singles out an identifiable individual for benefits or harms that do not apply to the rest of the population is called “special legislation.” I ...
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.
- When AI Co-Scientists Fail: SPOT-a Benchmark for Automated Verification of Scientific Research 🔥🔥🔥🔥Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have fueled the vision of automated scientific discovery, often called AI Co-Scientists. To date, prior work casts these systems as generative co-author...
- The time course of visuo-semantic representations in the human brain is captured by combining vision and language models 🔥🔥🔥The human visual system provides us with a rich and meaningful percept of the world, transforming retinal signals into visuo-semantic representations. For a model of these representations, here we lev...
- A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset† 🔥🔥We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy con...
- Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models 🔥Artificial intelligence holds great promise for expanding access to expert medical knowledge and reasoning. However, most evaluations of language models rely on static vignettes and multiple-choice qu...
- Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication† 🔥From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...
- Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Revised version 5 🔥This article introduces the concept of "distant writing", a novel literary practice in which authors act as designers, employing Artificial Intelligen ...
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)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Siva (@sivav.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bad Popehat With Evil Intentions (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.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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