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 | Hegseth Says This War Has Cost $25 Billion. I Tallied Up the True Amount. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- 10 Days That Shook the House Map and Democratic Confidence 🔥🔥
- The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Blue 🔥🔥
- In a Milestone for A.L.S., a Treatment Helps Some Patients Improve 🔥🔥
- Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres 🔥Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error ...
- The emerging cancer treatment that’s exciting scientists: ‘We’ve just scratched the surface on what’s possible’ 🔥After embarking on a trial of CAR T-cell therapy, actor Sam Neill announced he is cancer-free. Researchers are enthusiastic the therapies could be a major weapon in the battle against cancer ...
- Inside Ben Shapiro’s MAGA meltdown 🔥The Daily Wire was once ascendant in right-wing media. Now, the “anti-woke” company faces contentious layoffs, ideological battles and dwindling relevance online.
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.
- On Superpower Suicide 🔥🔥🔥🔥And the recovery of justice ...
- Remembering What The Stakes Are 🔥Here’s what the whole gerrymandering debate is about: Who gets to have and exercise power.
- What Has Your Mother Given You? A Saturday Prompt ...
- Local elections analysis: Labour struggled more versus the Greens than Reform Locals give fresh evidence on how the 2024 Labour coalition is breaking apart ...
- NEWS: Trump Growing Increasingly Isolated Globally, Experts Warn CDC Unprepared for Pandemic, Evangelicals Defend Trump Statue Against “Golden Calf” Backlash Good evening, 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.
- Despite Fukushima Trump hands nuclear regulation to Silicon Valley - Asia Times† 🔥🔥🔥🔥This article was originally published by ProPublica. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National ...
- The Humanities Score a Victory Against Trump 🔥🔥🔥DOGE used ChatGPT to cancel research grants. A federal judge wouldn’t have it.
- DOGE Slammed by Judge for Using AI to Find $100 Million in Cuts† 🔥🔥A US judge blasted the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency project for relying on artificial intelligence tools as it orchestrated roughly $100 million in cuts to federal fundin...
- DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules 🔥DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to scan grants for terms related to DEI.
- The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance The future of creative labor will turn on whether AI-generated work can be copyrighted.
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 ...
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.
- 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 that...
- AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot† 🔥🔥Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review quality, consistency, and timeliness. Recent advances in AI have led the co...
- How to Assess AI Literacy: Misalignment Between Self-Reported and Objective-Based Measures† The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in K-12 education highlights the need for psychometrically-tested measures of teachers' AI literacy. Existing work has primarily relied on eithe...
- When AI Meets Science: Research Diversity, Interdisciplinarity, Visibility, and Retractions across Disciplines in a Global Surge† The extent to which Artificial Intelligence (AI) can trigger generalized paradigm shifts in science is unclear. Although some of these technologies have revolutionized data collection and analysis in ...
- LLMs Mejorados por Cuántica mediante Adaptadores Unitarios de Cayley
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)
- Popehat Dropping To Its Grave (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me) (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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