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 Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The real count is much higher than the public knew.
- Alan Alda’s Solution to Eroding Trust in Science: More Improv 🔥The “M*A*S*H” star’s program to help researchers overcome their communication challenges now draws thousands. We sat in on a class.
- ‘Americans will be less safe’: alarm as Trump picks loyalist as intelligence chief 🔥Bill Pulte, who does not have any national intelligence experience, is nicknamed ‘Little Trump’ among some ...
- Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior 🔥
- Crypto billionaires help Reform cement fundraising lead The party received £7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires earlier this year, figures show ...
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.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 393. 6/4/26 🔥🔥… Trump fell asleep again today at a press event in the Oval Office as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was speaking.
- The SCOTUS Project to Undo Voting Rights Protections is Nearly Complete. 🔥The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Allen v.
- The fight over DOJ's invasive trans care subpoenas is coming to a head 🔥Three court appearances next week could represent the most critical moment in the past year for DOJ's effort to target the provision of medical care for transgender minors.
- Important News: Major Epstein Update, Trump's Name is Coming Down off of Kennedy Center, RFK Jr.'s Daughter in Law Resigns, and More 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- It's Almost Our Anniversary 🔥We are coming up on four years of Civil Discourse. Our anniversary will be this Sunday.
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.
- Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist 🔥🔥🔥“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’...
- xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity† 🔥🔥🔥Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
- Trump Signs Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models† 🔥
- EFF Testifies to Congress on Protecting Americans’ Rights from Government AI 🔥Governments must not adopt emerging and powerful AI technologies without also adopting strong and clear safeguards to protect Constitutional rights, EFF Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia tes...
- Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.
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.
- Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution 🔥🔥The controversy over birthright citizenship in the United States and the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment has exposed two urgent needs in American constituti ...
- Vigilance, Restraint, and Legitimacy: The Stubborn Persistence of Remedial Discretion in New Zealand Judicial Review† 🔥 Remedies in judicial review in New Zealand are discretionary. Even when an applicant is successful, the judge retains the discretion&
- Jawbreaking and Counterboning† 🔥 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s public campaign of unlawful threats against television broadcasters, culminating in the high-profile preemption and later ret ...
- Crisis and the Constitution: The Role of Civil Liberties in Times of National Security Threat In this Article, we contribute to the unfolding debate around civil liberties and civil rights in times of political, cultural, and health crises. As this Artic ...
- King, Parliament, and taxation in English constitutional history and the tariffs case† This paper traces the history of the English constitutional principle that the crown cannot impose taxation without the consent of Parliament. It analyzes the i ...
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.
- What biology can, and cannot, tell us about conscious AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Progress in AI is turning machine consciousness from a philosophical curiosity into a societal issue, and has led to criticism of the widespread computational functionalism framework. Biological Natur...
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance† 🔥
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
- Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative 🔥AI's central challenge is shifting from capability to coexistence. The dominant paradigm in AI research focuses on developing powerful agents that treat the world as an exogenous and stationary source...
- Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End Co-Design of Neural Network Processors: From Training and Mapping to Fabrication ArXiv link for Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End Co-Design of Neural Network Processors: From Training and Mapping to Fabrication ...
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)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Jenn (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Innocent🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Popehat Fits Fine (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.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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