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.
- Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.
- Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Health Care and Housing 🔥🔥🔥
- Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It 🔥🔥
- Green leaders warn party it must listen to Reform voters’ concerns to confront inequality 🔥Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas say party must seek to understand why disenfranchised electorate were attracted to Nigel Farage’s party ...
- Top UK chefs call for cutting VAT for pubs and restaurants to 10% 🔥Tom Kerridge, Yotam Ottolenghi, Ravneet Gill and Simon Rogan told BBC Newsnight VAT should be halved to ease mounting pressure on the hospitality industry.
- ‘There is no way to stop this’: ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babies 🔥The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus...
- Trump Urges Canceling Freedom 250 Concerts After Artists Drop Out 🔥
- Trial of multi-cancer blood test among 142,000 NHS patients fails to meet main aim 🔥Results presented at oncology conference in Chicago show Galleri test failed to reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses ...
- Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case (Published 2024) 🔥
- Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say 🔥Energy specialists say abandoning net zero and increasing oil and gas drilling would cause more instability for Britons ...
- Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time 🔥Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
- US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says 🔥Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
- Why $1bn in Balkans energy contracts are going to an obscure company connected to Donald Trump 🔥Guardian investigation shows how US presidency blurs line between policy and enrichment of American ruling family and those around it ...
- Exclusive | Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign 🔥The wife of the Maine Democratic Senate candidate last year told the campaign about texts she had found between Platner and other women.
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.
- Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him 🔥🔥🔥We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.
- We Need a Fourth Branch 🔥🔥Why our most vital institutions should be placed in a constitutional vault - beyond the reach of any President.
- Week One in 250 to 250 🔥This was the first week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
- Weekend Update #187: Trying to Collapse the Russian Army from Behind--What to Watch out for. Is Ukrainian Now A "Nordic" State?; Russia Attacks Romania ...
- Important Update: Trump Losing Confidence in Vance, Says he Will Headline State Fair After Artists Bail, Lashes Out at Opponents, and More 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.
- Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.
- New AI Warning: Don’t Discuss Your Legal Problems With Claude Or ChatGPT 🔥A new federal court ruling makes clear that business owners and executives can't expect confidentiality for legal discussions with AI, as they can with human attorneys.
- US judiciary asked to adopt rule to curb fake AI-generated cases in filings A federal judge in Florida on Friday asked the judiciary to adopt a nationwide rule to ensure that litigants using generative AI have ensured that any court filings they submit do not cite fake cases hallucinated by the technology.
- Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and likeness points to a new legal frontier in combating AI deepfakes When AI is used to manufacture fake endorsements, copyright law doesn’t do enough to protect celebrities, influencers and other public figures.
- Her boyfriend created illicit images of her teen daughter. In Massachusetts, that’s not a crime. - The Boston Globe Massachusetts is one of five states where it's not against the law to use AI to create illicit images of children.
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.
- WHO CONTROLS THE PODIUM? A FIRST AMENDMENT FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATING CITIZEN SPEECH AT GOVERNMENT MEETINGS† 🔥Public comment at government meetings is, in the words of one legal scholar, “perhaps the purest form of citizen political expression.” Yet across the cou ...
- International Arbitration Agreements in Insolvency: Seeking a Happy Medium † Arbitration law generally enforces arbitration agreements and awards, but most jurisdictions hold that some core insolvency matters are nonarb ...
- Copyright's Public Domains: The Limits on AI Appropriation† The spectacular rise to commercial and intellectual prominence of artificial intelligence (AI) since 2022, and in particular the predominant role of ...
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.
- Neuro-Symbolic AI in 2024: A Systematic Review 🔥🔥Background: The field of Artificial Intelligence has undergone cyclical periods of growth and decline, known as AI summers and winters. Currently, we are in the third AI summer, characterized by signi...
- LLM4Branch: Large Language Model for Discovering Efficient Branching Policies of Integer Programs 🔥🔥Efficient branching policies are essential for accelerating Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solvers. Their design has long relied on hand-crafted heuristics, and now machine learning has emerg...
- Make LLM Learn to Synthesize from Streaming Experiences through Feedback 🔥ArXiv link for Make LLM Learn to Synthesize from Streaming Experiences through Feedback ...
- Extra-Merge: Tracing the Rank-1 Subspace of Model Merging in Language Model Pre-Training 🔥ArXiv link for Extra-Merge: Tracing the Rank-1 Subspace of Model Merging in Language Model Pre-Training ...
- Jailbreak Scaling Laws for Large Language Models: Polynomial-Exponential Crossover ArXiv link for Jailbreak Scaling Laws for Large Language Models: Polynomial-Exponential Crossover ...
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)
- Illegal Aliens And Women Hat (@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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