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. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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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.
- U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
- Justice Dept., Under Pressure From Trump, Fails to Build Autopen Case Against Biden
- House Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi Bondi has faced criticism from Democrats, and some Republicans, over the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files.
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Bondi is Subpoenaed to Testify About Handling of Epstein Case
- ‘Treat us fairly’: skilled workers face having their dream of settling in UK snatched away As government mulls doubling requirement to 10 years, the uncertainty is putting many who came to Britain to work under strain ...
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.
- There Is More Than One Way to Kill Mail-in Voting 🔥🔥On Tuesday in Texas, Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas, had their work cut out for them if they wanted to vote.
- Major Update: Republicans Break and Subpoena Bondi in Epstein Investigation, Trump Tried to Prosecute Biden, Kurds Launch Ground Invasion in Iran 🔥🔥We have a major update this afternoon.
- Judge moves, cautiously, toward civil contempt in case over treatment of trans people in prison 🔥“Once I issue an order, it’s my intent to enforce it,“ Judge Lamberth told the government. And: Facing the Trump administration's ridiculousness. Until the elevator door closes.
- NEWS: Pentagon Lashes Out at Media for Iran War Coverage as State Department Warns Stranded Americans It Cannot Guarantee Help Good morning everyone.
- Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
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.
- Trump's war on elections is hiding in plain sight 🔥🔥🔥🔥False claims that foreign government interference caused him to lose in 2020 have been a staple of the diet of lies Trump feeds to his faithful.
- Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. 🔥🔥🔥A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.
- Pete Hegseth C*ckblocks Anthropic 🔥🔥And OpenAI collects its winnings.
- The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art† 🔥The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.
- AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule† A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”
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.
- The Lattice Representation Hypothesis of Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for The Lattice Representation Hypothesis of Large Language Models ...
- Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?† 🔥🔥A widespread practice in software development is to tailor coding agents to repositories using context files, such as AGENTS.md, by either manually or automatically generating them. Although this prac...
- Fundamentals of Physical AI 🔥🔥This work will elaborate the fundamental principles of physical artificial intelligence (Physical AI) from a scientific and systemic perspective. The aim is to create a theoretical foundation that des...
- Mind the Gap: Foundation Models and the Covert Proliferation of Military Intelligence, Surveillance, and Targeting 🔥🔥Discussions regarding the dual use of foundation models and the risks they pose have overwhelmingly focused on a narrow set of use cases and national security directives-in particular, how AI may enab...
- Mil-SCORE: Benchmarking Long-Context Geospatial Reasoning and Planning in Large Language Models 🔥🔥As large language models (LLMs) are applied to increasingly longer and more complex tasks, there is a growing need for realistic long-context benchmarks that require selective reading and integration ...
- A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI 🔥🔥People increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to explore ideas, gather information, and make sense of the world. In these interactions, they encounter agents that are overly agreeable. We argue...
- Difference-in-differences for mediation analysis using double machine learning† 🔥We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) framework with mediation for possibly multivalued discrete or continuous treatments and mediators, aimed at identifying the direct effect of the treatment ...
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)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- goodlawproject.org (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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