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.
- Opinion | Who Will Stand Up to the Supreme Court Justices? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | Arwa Mahdawi 🔥🔥The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage ...
- Reform frontbench promotes JCB’s pothole machine after firm’s £200,000 donation 🔥🔥Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro ...
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: Labour minister says government needs to tackle online 'breeding ground' of antisemitism 🔥Shortly, we'll also hear from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Green Party leader Zack Polanski ahead of next week's elections.
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 Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections 🔥🔥🔥The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.
- Breaking: Mifepristone is back at the Supreme Court in case over mailing the abortion drug 🔥After a Friday ruling from the Fifth Circuit that would end mailing of the medication abortion drug, a drugmaker asked the justices to act immediately to keep the FDA policy allowing mailing in place.
- America is giving dying mall vibes 🔥On the dangers of social and political nostalgia.
- An Urgent Note: It's World Press Freedom Day and the Alarm Bells are Ringing On World Press Freedom Day, findings from Reporters Without Borders and UNESCO highlight a deepening crisis affecting legal protections, safety, and the future of independent journalism.
- Major Update: Trump Launches Racist Posting Spree, ICE Hires Firm Accused of Torture to Find Undocumented Children, U.S. Will Take Over Cuba "Almost Immediately" 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.
- A tech worker in China is laid off and replaced by AI. Is it legal?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥A tech worker in eastern China's Hangzhou city was dismissed after his job was replaced by AI. An appeals court in the city has ruled the dismissal unlawful.
- Chinese Court Rules Firms Can’t Lay Off Workers on AI Grounds 🔥🔥🔥A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilize the domestic labor market with a global race to develop AI technologies.
- The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with Robots 🔥🔥Chinese courts ruled AI adoption can't justify firing workers, forcing tech companies to budget for expensive transitions that could increase global gadget prices.
- Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents† 🔥🔥Microsoft’s Legal Agent comes from the work of former Robin AI engineers.
- Elon Musk went to court. The judge wasn’t amused. 🔥🔥Elon Musk’s outsize reputation, provocative remarks and his friction with a federal judge have dominated the trial in his case against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
- US judge says senior lawyers must pay for mistakes by subordinates using AI tools 🔥A federal judge has sanctioned the manager of a California law firm over a junior attorney's artificial intelligence-assisted court brief that contained a false case citation, saying the responsibility for such errors extends to supervising lawyers.
- Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial 🔥Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI.
- Musk Warns of Killer AI — While He and the Rest of Silicon Valley Cash In on AI That Kills 🔥In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk evoked a “Terminator” scenario. He said nothing about the people AI is already killing.
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.
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing† 🔥“Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
- 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 ...
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.
- AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights 🔥🔥🔥🔥As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderatio...
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Thought This research paper examines, from a multidimensional perspective (cognitive, social, ethical, and philosophical), how AI is transforming human thought. It highlights a cognitive offloading effect: the externalization of mental functions to AI can reduce intellectual engagement and weaken critical thinking. On the social level, algorithmic personalization creates filter bubbles that limit the diversity of opinions and can lead to the homogenization of thought and polarization. This research also describes the mechanisms of algorithmic manipulation (exploitation of cognitive biases, automated disinformation, etc.) that amplify AI's power of influence. Finally, the question of potential artificial consciousness is discussed, along with its ethical implications. The report as a whole underscores the risks that AI poses to human intellectual autonomy and creativity, while proposing avenues (education, transparency, governance) to align AI development with the interests of humanity.
- LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate† Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...
- Why do we do astrophysics?† At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...
- AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite AI agents hold the potential to revolutionize scientific productivity by automating literature reviews, replicating experiments, analyzing data, and even proposing new directions of inquiry; indeed, t...
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)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg "86 47" Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Human Garbage Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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