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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ The Finite Scroll, an open-source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- DHS’s Misleading Press Release Smears a U.S. Judge in Rhode Island 🔥🔥🔥🔥The judge has referred an assistant U.S. attorney for an ethics inquiry, but she has said that DHS was the truly bad actor.
- Three-quarters of UK millionaires would be happy to pay more tax, research finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥Despite concerns super-rich are leaving due to tax burdens, 88% of those surveyed were proud to live in UK and would pay more to fund public services ...
- Reform councillor resigns over Holocaust 'hoax' post 🔥🔥🔥Jay Cooper was elected for the Bootle West ward at Sefton Council on Merseyside just days ago.
- Reflecting Pool Repairs Appear Uneven and Behind Schedule, Officials Say 🔥🔥🔥
- Farage faces questions over failure to declare use of donor’s helicopter 🔥🔥Reform UK leader has used the helicopter to attend rallies across the country, most recently on Friday ...
- Florida Plans to Close ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Vendors Are Reportedly Told 🔥
- 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 ...
- U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities 🔥
- Greta Thunberg, Gary Lineker sign letter defending Southbank Centre chair 🔥Misan Harriman has been accused of promoting Golders Green attack ‘conspiracies’ and comparing Reform voters to Nazis ...
- A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly 🔥Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.
- Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims 🔥A new lawsuit accuses the administration of violating the First Amendment by threatening the visas of researchers for work on disinformation and content moderation of social media.
- Streeting to meet Starmer on Wednesday as the prime minister defies calls to step down – UK politics live 🔥A number of Streeting’s allies resigned from their ministerial posts on Tuesday and called for Keir Starmer to quit ...
- Marty Makary departs FDA after clashes with Trump over fruit-flavored vapes 🔥Kyle Diamantas, a top official at the agency, will replace Makary and serve as acting FDA commissioner ...
- New Trove of Fulton County Case Materials Published† 🔥Lawfare expects to publish more materials obtained from the case file, as well as additional reporting and analysis drawn from these materials.
- JP Morgan could scrap £3bn London HQ if Starmer is replaced by PM ‘hostile to banks’ 🔥Jamie Dimon says US banking giant could rethink Canary Wharf tower if a future Labour leader targets lenders ...
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.
- Mifepristone and the Court 🔥🔥This is an update on an item we covered in Sunday’s Week Ahead post, when we discussed the mifepristone case that has landed on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket.
- Exclusive: Donald Trump is Building an “Amazon for Guns” and Donald Trump Jr. Stands to Benefit 🔥🔥How the Trump Administration is quietly laying the groundwork for online firearm delivery, and why Donald Trump Jr. could benefit from it.
- A Judge Calls Out Trump’s Self-Dealing 🔥Order in Trump $10B IRS suit threatens to expose the administration's series of collusive lawsuits.
- Abbott held $530,000 dollars hostage to cancel an event by Americans because they’re Muslim 🔥Abbott just bullied Grand Prairie out of an Eid celebration. He's done this to four Texas cities in less than a month.
- Major Update: Trump Shrugs Off Americans’ Financial Pain, Epstein Survivors Deliver Heartbreaking Testimony, Patel Lashes Out 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- Democrats Probe Huge 'Illegitimate' Cash Payments To Fired FBI Agents 🔥
- Don't Forget About Immigration: With Kica Matos 🔥We cannot afford to forget that even though the stories are off the front pages, Trump and Stephen Miller are still executing a harsh, inhumane mass deportation policy.
- White Supremacy Is an Antidemocracy Movement 🔥If You Want Democracy in this Country You Have to Fight White Supremacy ...
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.
- Elsevier vs. Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
- The Humanities Score a Victory Against Trump† 🔥🔥DOGE used ChatGPT to cancel research grants. A federal judge wouldn’t have it.
- After Deaths, Lawsuits Against A.I. Companies Test a New Strategy 🔥🔥
- University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is 'Unlawfully Discriminatory' to Data Centers† 🔥🔥The University promised “to pursue all rights and claims for necessary relief” if a small Michigan community won’t pump water into a data center.
- Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI† 🔥🔥Week three of Elon vs. Altman.
- Why Americans dread AI 🔥Silicon Valley encourages the view that the technology is unstoppable — and Trump seems to agree ...
- Lawsuit accuses ChatGPT of helping gunman plan FSU mass shooting† 🔥The lawsuit says the alleged gunman Phoenix Ikner relied on ChatGPT to determine what type of gun to use and which location would allow for the most potential victims, among other information.
- Sam Altman’s Personal Investments Are Under Investigation—He’ll Testify Today At OpenAI Trial 🔥Altman is slated to take the stand Wednesday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against him and OpenAI.
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.
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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.
- LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...
- Information Theory and Statistical Learning This manuscript contains preprint of a chapter under consideration for inclusion in the forthcoming third edition of {\em Cover and Thomas's Elements of Information Theory}, posted with permission fro...
- Human-Guided Complexity-Controlled Abstractions† Neural networks often learn task-specific latent representations that fail to generalize to novel settings or tasks. Conversely, humans learn discrete representations (i.e., concepts or words) at a va...
- Do Melody and Rhythm Coevolve?† Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajectories remains uncle...
- LLiMba: Sardinian on a Single GPU -- Adapting a 3B Language Model to a Vanishing Romance Language Sardinian, a Romance language with roughly one million speakers, has minimal presence in modern NLP. Commercial services do not support it, and current language models do not produce it reliably. We p...
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)
- I Don’t Think About Popehat’s Financial Situation (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me) (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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