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.
- The FBI Director Is MIA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
- Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says 🔥🔥🔥America First Policy Institute, which boasts close ties to president, discussed transgender policy ‘reform’ at DC event ...
- French Widow Detained by ICE in Alabama Is Released After 16 Days 🔥🔥
- The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine 🔥🔥Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
- U.S. Government Agrees to $1.25 Million Settlement in Michael Flynn Suit 🔥🔥Lawfare obtained the settlement document through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this year.
- Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles 🔥Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels ...
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.
- Five Questions with Independent Journalist Scott MacFarlane 🔥🔥🔥🔥Where do we find reliable news in an era of disinformation?
- Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.
- Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation ...
- Why Should JD Vance Worry? Despite his growing collection of obvious failures on the global stage, he's reveling in his imaginary, near-divine status within the power elite ...
- Major Mid-Day Update: Iran Claims Control of Hormuz, Trump Weighs $20 Billion Deal He Once Condemned, U.S. Blockade Continues We have major developments right now regarding the war in Iran, and many of you have reached out to me with questions and confusion.
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.
- Thiel-Backed Startup Wants AI to Judge Journalism† 🔥🔥🔥Objection lets users pay to challenge news stories with AI arbitration ...
- Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools† 🔥🔥As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, pr...
- A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop 🔥She wanted to pry her late mother’s vineyard from two of her brothers. Instead, her lawyers were fined nearly $110,000 for citing bogus case law generated by artificial intelligence.
- New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked† 🔥Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk's group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they pushed for grant and contract cancellations with little oversight.
- The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul 🔥In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.
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.
- Play Ball! The Stories of Hall of Fame Attorneys (book review essay) 🔥Perhaps the greatest honor for a baseball player is induction to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Eleven of the in ...
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis of Whistleblowing Speech, the Government's Managerial Doman, and the Imperatives of Democratic Self-Government† 🔥Since issuing its 1968 landmark decision in Pickering, which first recognized that the First Amendment protects government employees’ speech about matters of pu ...
- Written Statement of Nikolas Bowie to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, June 30, 2021† 🔥This testimony to President Joe Biden's Commission on the Supreme Court makes two arguments against the U.S. Supreme Court's power to invalidate federal le ...
- Can Speech Policy Protect Public Health?† Government speech shapes public health outcomes, yet political incentives often lead officials to either remain silent about emerging threats or subordinate ...
- Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative (This is Part 1 of a two-article series. The second installment — also available on SSRN — is called “The Executive Power Clause.”)Article II of the Uni ...
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.
- The AI Layoff Trap† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In a c...
- Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender 🔥🔥People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We ...
- AI-Assisted Spectral Decomposition of Euclid Q1 Gravitational Lenses: Extended-Coverage NISP Extraction with Vision-Language Model Quality Control 🔥🔥Spectroscopic redshift determination from R ~ 450 slitless grism data is vulnerable to line-identification degeneracy when only a small number of features are detected. This paper presents a custom ex...
- Structured Uncertainty guided Clarification for LLM Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for Structured Uncertainty guided Clarification for LLM Agents ...
- Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
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)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Strait of Popehat Or Iran Or Whatever (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.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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