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.
- Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- No obligation to declare £5m gift, Nigel Farage says 🔥🔥The Reform UK leader says the gift was ...
- F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
- Barrister in Palestine Action trial facing contempt of court proceedings Rajiv Menon KC accused of defying judge’s orders to not inform jury of right to acquit on basis of conscience ...
- Samsung family pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill The bill is tied to the estate left by the firm's late chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died in October 2020.
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.
- Two Motions From the SPLC Tell the Story: The Government's Indictment Is in Trouble 🔥🔥🔥Sunday night, we discussed the Southern Poverty Law Center’s motion to “address the government’s materially false statements.” It’s an extremely unusual motion coming from a defendant in a criminal ca...
- NEWS: Trump Seeks $1 Billion for Ballroom, Ballroom Pollutes D.C. with Toxic Metals, Trump Pushes ICE Name Change to "Nice," and More 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 364. 5/5/26 🔥… Trump held an event with kids in the Oval Office to announce he was relaunching the presidential physical fitness program.
- ICE shot and killed and an American in Texas and tried to cover it up. A year later the only witness to the crime died in an accident. 🔥ICE keeps shattering Texan's lives.
- Joyce Vance & Marc Elias: Fallout From Callais 🔥The only thing I can say about my conversation with voting rights and election law lawyer Marc Elias this morning is that if you missed it, it’s essential viewing.
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.
- Scott Turow's latest real-life legal thriller: Suing Meta for copyright infringement 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Five major publishing houses and the bestselling author are suing Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly training its Llama generative AI models on millions of copyrighted materials.
- Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training 🔥🔥Publishers Elsevier, Cengage [RIC:RIC:TLACQ.UL], Hachette , Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.
- Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals 🔥UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
- Microsoft, Google and xAI to give US government early access to AI models for security checks 🔥Microsoft, Google and Elon Musk’s xAI agreed to give the U.S. government early access to new artificial intelligence models for national security testing, as U.S. officials grow alarmed by the hackin...
- Publishers sue Meta, claiming it violated copyrights in training AI with their books 🔥The plaintiffs allege that Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg “personally authorized and actively encouraged” copyright infringement.
- ‘Skywalker turned Darth Vader’: Galloway on Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit | CNN† 🔥NYU professor Scott Galloway weighs in on the escalating feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, arguing the real issue isn’t personality but the urgent need for AI regulation.
- Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors 🔥Pennsylvania has sued the artificial intelligence company behind Character.AI to stop its chatbot from posing as doctors.
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.
- The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution† Part I of this Article describes advances in encryption technology that are increasing personal privacy, particularly electronic privacy, but reducing the U.S.
- From McCarthyism to Bostock: The Judicial Evolution of Anti-Discrimination in Employment for Sexual Minorities in the United States† In the context of McCarthyism, the U.S. federal courts and the Federal Civil Service Commission applied a broad "efficiency" standard to assess the su ...
- Does Textualism Constrain Supreme Court Justices? A principal justification for textualism is the constraint hypothesis. Conservative justices and leading textualist scholars contend that-in stark contrast to r ...
- Chief Justice Rehnquist's Enduring, Democratic Constitution William H. Rehnquist's essay, "The Notion of a Living Constitution," was delivered as the Will E. Orgain Lecture and then published thirty years ago,
- Beyond Public Law: Recognizing a Tort Remedy for Hate Speech in Canada† This article argues that Canadian private law should be updated to recognize a cause of action in tort for hate speech directed against identifiable group ...
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...
- How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting Token Consumption in Agentic Coding Tasks 🔥The wide adoption of AI agents in complex human workflows is driving rapid growth in LLM token consumption. When agents are deployed on tasks that require a significant amount of tokens, three questio...
- HG-DAgger: Interactive Imitation Learning with Human Experts† Imitation learning has proven to be useful for many real-world problems, but approaches such as behavioral cloning suffer from data mismatch and compounding error issues. One attempt to address these ...
- Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling† The success of today's large language models (LLMs) depends on the observation that larger models perform better. However, the origin of this neural scaling law, that loss decreases as a power law wit...
- 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.
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 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)
- Mini-War 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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