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 Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.
- Judge orders Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name from building 🔥🔥Judge Christopher Cooper also ordered Kennedy Center officials to halt plans to close for two years starting in July.
- Ukraine war briefing: Eliminate Putin’s ‘last major advantage,’ Zelenskyy urges Washington 🔥Patriots would neutralise ballistic missiles and force Russia to negotiate, says Ukrainian president; half a million Russian dead – GCHQ boss. What we know on day 1,555 ...
- He Was Jailed Over a Charlie Kirk Post. The Sheriff Now Owes Him $835,000.
- Blowing Up Boats Hasn’t Slowed Cocaine Traffic to U.S., Experts Say
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.
- I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House 🔥🔥There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 389. 5/29/26 🔥… A federal judge in DC ordered that Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center: “DECLARED that Congress named the John F.
- Five Questions with Barb McQuade 🔥My friend Barb McQuade has written a new book that will be released this coming week.
- Major Update: Judge Blocks Trump's Slush Fund, Bondi Testifies and I Speak With Survivors, Majority of Artists Bail on Trump's Celebration 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- E. Jean Carroll 🔥Is DOJ investigating her, or not?
- Federal judge ends Kennedy Center name change, bars two-year closure plans for now 🔥“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” Trump responded ... as one would expect.
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.
- Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign.
- A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims 🔥🔥The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.
- Judiciary Tried To Hide 'Sex In Chambers' Judge's Name. It Left A Roadmap To Identify Eleanor Ross Instead. - Above the Law† 🔥For all their efforts, both the Eleventh Circuit and Judicial Conference left a lot of clues.
- CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft | CNN Business 🔥CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN’s content.
- Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Texas less than one-tenth size of Waymo's, filings reveal 🔥Tesla has registered 42 automated vehicles in its driverless Robotaxi service in Texas, putting it far behind Waymo in the state.
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.
- WHO CONTROLS THE PODIUM? A FIRST AMENDMENT FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATING CITIZEN SPEECH AT GOVERNMENT MEETINGS† 🔥Public comment at government meetings is, in the words of one legal scholar, “perhaps the purest form of citizen political expression.” Yet across the cou ...
- International Arbitration Agreements in Insolvency: Seeking a Happy Medium Arbitration law generally enforces arbitration agreements and awards, but most jurisdictions hold that some core insolvency matters are nonarb ...
- Copyright's Public Domains: The Limits on AI Appropriation† The spectacular rise to commercial and intellectual prominence of artificial intelligence (AI) since 2022, and in particular the predominant role of ...
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 sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers† 🔥🔥🔥We disprove the sum-product conjecture for real numbers by constructing arbitrarily large $A\subset \mathbb{R}$ (whose elements are algebraic integers in a number field of degree $\asymp \log\lvert A\...
- Datasets for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey† 🔥🔥This paper embarks on an exploration into the Large Language Model (LLM) datasets, which play a crucial role in the remarkable advancements of LLMs. The datasets serve as the foundational infrastructu...
- Engagement-Optimized Care: When LLMs become Mental Health Infrastructure 🔥General-purpose LLMs are increasingly functioning as mental health infrastructure due to gaps in care left by provider shortages, inadequate insurance coverage, social isolation, and stigma around for...
- The Illusion of Competence: Self-Perceived Digital Literacy and AI Readiness Among European Secondary Students† 🔥The ubiquitous presence of digital devices has cemented the 'Digital Native' paradigm, assuming inherent technological proficiency among contemporary youth. This multicenter study ($N=243$ European se...
- Simulating Human Memory with Language Models† 🔥Language models are increasingly being deployed as user simulators, but their memory is far more reliable than that of real users. To measure this gap, we run a series of classic memory experiments fr...
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)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Extraordinary Paradise Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Innocent🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (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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