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 SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire. The old rules of capitalism no longer apply | Robert Reich 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The economic principles taught in school aren’t as relevant as hype, connections and total, arbitrary control ...
- How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts 🔥🔥🔥🔥Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU ...
- The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. 🔥When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
- Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science? 🔥A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.
- Trump Again Picks Personal Lawyer for a Top Job, as U.S. Attorney in Manhattan 🔥
- Seven fights on the South Lawn: Trump prepares for UFC birthday spectacle at White House 🔥Show goes on for Trump’s 80th birthday event – featuring a 92ft ‘Claw’, thousands of seats and a fighting cage – despite ominous weather forecasts ...
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 Kennedy Center is a reminder that we can win, it will be messy, and Trump will be petty 🔥🔥🔥The illegal effort to put Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center has always been a metaphor — but, this weekend, it became a story of how we get through this.
- Sky Defense: Bringing it Home 🔥We are saving lives and neighborhoods in Ukraine ...
- 'Erasing histories and voices' 🔥Once seen as a culture war confined to the USA, book censorship is gaining ground in the UK. Authors, librarians and teachers warn of mounting pressure to remove titles from school libraries, particul...
- Removal of Trump's name from Kennedy Center is a Big F**king Deal in the war versus Trump! 🔥Enjoy this!
- NEWS: Trump's Name Comes Down From Kennedy Center, Trump Tells Friends "Clock is Ticking" as he Ages, and Major Court Orders Good morning and happy Saturday.
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 Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
- The Real Cost Of Cooling GPUs In Space Might Shock You† Shedding heat will require ingenious new designs ...
- Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
- Massive Effigy of Elon Musk Raised Over Times Square to Protest Grok† Activists raised a 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk in Manhattan to draw attention to the risk he allegedly poses to investors.
- Mississippi Judge Boots Lawyers From Both Sides of Case for ‘Blindly Relying on’ AI A federal judge in Mississippi booted all lawyers from both sides of a case on Tuesday over AI hallucinations in court filings.
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.
- Data Privacy Federalism 3.0† 🔥Federalism is a bedrock concept in the political organization of the United States. It is also a topic of intensive scholarly attention. Yet, compared to oth ...
- State-Mediated Structural Injustice† This piece examines the role of the law in relation to structural injustice. It argues that by examining legal rules closely when considering certain i ...
- Antitrust's Controversy with Disruption Most economic progress comes from disruptive firms that offer some new thing, benefiting their customers, workers, and suppliers but often harming riva ...
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.
- Students still think they write better than GenAI, but not equally: Disciplinary differences in usage, trust, and writing practices with artificial intelligence 🔥🔥🔥This survey study (n=342) identifies undergraduates’ GenAI usage patterns, their attitudes of trust towards these technologies, and their self-reported positive ...
- Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender 🔥People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We ...
- SatLM: Satisfiability-Aided Language Models Using Declarative Prompting† Prior work has combined chain-of-thought prompting in large language models (LLMs) with programmatic representations to perform effective and transparent reasoning. While such an approach works well f...
- Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good? LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...
- Mathematical perspective on genetic algorithms with optimization guided operators ArXiv link for Mathematical perspective on genetic algorithms with optimization guided operators ...
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)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- folukeifejola (@folukeifejola.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.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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