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.
- Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers ...
- Iran War Live Updates: Israel Agrees to Talks With Lebanon but Keeps Striking Hezbollah 🔥🔥
- Essay: Book club skeptic? So was Roxane Gay. Here's what converted her 🔥They are often dismissed as a punch line, but Roxane Gay explains why women’s book clubs are the backbone of a passionate literary culture.
- CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits 🔥The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.
- Starmer says he is ‘fed up’ with Trump and Putin’s impact on UK energy costs 🔥PM appears to draw comparison between Russian and US leaders and calls for plan to restore shipping through strait of Hormuz ...
- Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts 🔥Exclusive: Sources believe AI tech company’s engineers have been granted access to directory of up to 1.5m staff ...
- US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company 🔥Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interests ...
- Trump administration can't make colleges provide race-related data, judge rules 🔥The Trump administration cannot force public universities in 17 U.S. states to turn over sweeping amounts of data so it can examine whether they have ceased considering race as an admissions factor,...
- Iran’s Battered Leaders Emerge From War Confident — and With New Cards 🔥
- Iran: Teenager among first to be executed over anti-government protests 🔥Saleh Mohammadi, a member of Iran's national wrestling team, was found guilty of killing police officers alongside two other men, state media 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.
- Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh 🔥🔥Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts.
- EFF is Leaving X 🔥After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
- NEWS: Trump Launches Tirade Attacking MAGA, Iran, and Says he Had No Knowledge of Melania's Statement as Survivors Blast First Lady 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 345. 4/9/26 🔥… Melania Trump addressed the media today on Epstein in a surprise statement, although she took no questions from reporters.
- BREAKING: Melania Trump Addresses the Nation on Epstein, Demands Congress Take Action in Possible Break from Donald Trump 🔥We have a significant and unexpected development this afternoon.
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.
- UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
- OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters 🔥🔥The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
- England’s sewage scandal hinges on lack of water industry regulation – new docudrama reveals how profit drives pollution The water industry has been left to police its own pollution.
- Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk Label Should Stay In Place, Appeals Court Says† The AI company now faces conflicting rulings in its fight over how Claude can be used by the US military.
- Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue universities for racial discrimination A California man, who has filed multiple lawsuits against major university systems over his son's college rejections, says artificial intelligence has become the key to pursuing the cases after no law firm agreed to represent them.
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.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning† 🔥🔥Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l ...
- Mitigating the Judicial Human-AI Fairness Gap When algorithms make legal decisions, people perceive the process as less fair than when humans do — a phenomenon known as the judicial human-AI fairness gap. W ...
- Suppressing Constitutional Law: Qualified Immunity and Non-precedential Opinions Federal appellate courts label most opinions as "non-precedent." The label is supposed to have no doctrinal impact. But in the context of qualified im ...
- Circumventing the Supreme Court: Copyright Law and the Limits of Judicial Centralization The federal judiciary plays a central role in developing copyright law. With Congress largely inactive in recent decades and with no administrative age ...
- Saving Democracy from the Senate It should not be surprising that Americans say they are frustrated with their national institutions. Congress, particularly the Senate, responds poorly to the p ...
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 Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance† 🔥🔥🔥🔥People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...
- Short proofs in combinatorics, probability and number theory II 🔥🔥We give a quintet of proofs resulting from questions posed by Erdős. These questions concern ordinary lines in planar point sets, sequences with uniformly small exponential sums, $K_4$-free $4$-critical graphs with few chords in any cycle, a counterexample to a "fewnomial" version of the Erdős--Turán discrepancy bound, and a finiteness theorem for integers $n$ such that $n-a k^2$ is prime for all $k\leq \sqrt{n/a}$ coprime to $n$ (for fixed $a\in\mathbb Z_+$). Each proof is due to an internal model at OpenAI.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning† 🔥Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l ...
- Responsible Intelligence in Practice: A Fairness Audit of Open Large Language Models for Library Reference Services† As libraries explore large language models (LLMs) as a scalable layer for reference services, a core fairness question follows: can LLM-based services support all patrons fairly, regardless of demographic identity? While LLMs offer great potential for broadening access to information assistance, they may also reproduce societal biases embedded in their training data, potentially undermining libraries' commitments to impartial service. In this chapter, we apply a systematic evaluation approach that combines diagnostic classification to detect systematic differences with linguistic analysis to interpret their sources. Across three widely used open models (Llama-3.1 8B, Gemma-2 9B, and Ministral 8B), we find no compelling evidence of systematic differentiation by race/ethnicity, and only minor evidence of sex-linked differentiation in one model. We discuss implications for responsible AI adoption in libraries and the importance of ongoing monitoring in aligning LLM-based services with core professional values.
- How Does Machine Learning Manage Complexity? We provide a computational complexity lens to understand the power of machine learning models, particularly their ability to model complex systems. Machine learning models are often trained on...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Third Rate Podcasts Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.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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