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.
- Pope Leo has stirred awake a progressive Christianity. It can rise again | Bill McKibben 🔥🔥🔥🔥With his stand against Trump, the pope has shown the far right doesn’t have a monopoly on Christianity. If people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefined ...
- Dozens of MPs oppose Streeting’s new power to say what NHS pays for drugs† 🔥🔥🔥Health secretary’s ‘power grab’ to override Nice comes amid growing concern move may be illegal and benefit big pharma ...
- Opinion | Meet the New Leader of the Free World 🔥🔥
- Forecasting the Fall of the Two-Hour Marathon (Published 2014) 🔥🔥
- Most Guests Ducked for Cover. This Man Munched on His Burrata Salad. 🔥🔥
- ‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?† 🔥A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives ...
- People in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study finds 🔥Exclusive: Health Foundation says Britain is ‘going backwards’ compared with most other rich countries ...
- The Trump Administration Has Changed Almost Every Aspect of Food Stamps 🔥
- Palantir and the NHS – 10 things you need to know 🔥What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.
- Britain is undermining the care workers it depends on | Heather Stewart 🔥Labour’s immigration plans tear up the promise made to 300,000 people recruited for a sector in crisis ...
- Orbán associates rush to move wealth out of Hungary after election defeat 🔥Incoming PM Péter Magyar accuses Fidesz-linked figures of trying to shield their wealth from accountability ...
- A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts 🔥Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back.
- Federal Court Temporarily Freezes Nexstar’s Merger With Tegna 🔥
- How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics 🔥Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P.
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.
- Major Update: White House Did Not Impose Highest Security Level for Dinner, Trump Lashes Out at Press, Democrats Score Win in Virginia 🔥🔥Good evening.
- Major Good News Update, Focusing on the Epstein Survivors, Not Normalizing What's Happening 🔥🔥Good morning everyone.
- Major Update: Big Firings Set to Occur After Security Breakdown, I Expose Lax Conditions at the Scene, MAGA Pushes Ballroom Narrative and Attacks Democrats 🔥Good afternoon everyone.
- The Week Ahead 🔥April 26, 2026 ...
- April 26, 2026 Today Assistant Attorney General Brett A.
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.
- Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before Tumbler Ridge killings† 🔥🔥🔥OpenAI's head, Sam Altman, has apologized for not alerting law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
- This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright 🔥🔥Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
- US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices 🔥To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
- Musk Drops Fraud Claims Against OpenAI, Altman Ahead of Trial Elon Musk dropped his fraud claims against OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, narrowing the scope of his lawsuit against his business rivals on the eve of trial.
- OpenAI CEO apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community | TechCrunch In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting.
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.
- Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change ...
- Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI† 🔥At least since Francis Bacon, the slogan 'knowledge is power' has been used to capture the relationship between decision-making at a group level and information. We know that being able to shape the i...
- There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning† In this paper, we make the case that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging. By this we mean a theory which characterizes important properties and statistics of the training process, hidden ...
- 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...
- Closing the Domain Gap in Biomedical Imaging by In-Context Control Samples The central problem in biomedical imaging are batch effects: systematic technical variations unrelated to the biological signal of interest. These batch effects critically undermine experimental reproducibility and are the primary cause of failure of deep learning systems on new experimental batches, preventing their practical use in the real world. Despite years of research, no method has succeeded in closing this performance gap for deep learning models. We propose Control-Stabilized Adaptive Risk Minimization via Batch Normalization (CS-ARM-BN), a meta-learning adaptation method that exploits negative control samples. Such unperturbed reference images are present in every experimental batch by design and serve as stable context for adaptation. We validate our novel method on Mechanism-of-Action (MoA) classification, a crucial task for drug discovery, on the large-scale JUMP-CP dataset. The accuracy of standard ResNets drops from 0.939 $\pm$ 0.005, on the training domain, to 0.862 $\pm$ 0.060 on data from new experimental batches. Foundation models, even after Typical Variation Normalization, fail to close this gap. We are the first to show that meta-learning approaches close the domain gap by achieving 0.935 $\pm$ 0.018. If the new experimental batches exhibit strong domain shifts, such as being generated in a different lab, meta-learning approaches can be stabilized with control samples, which are always available in biomedical experiments. Our work shows that batch effects in bioimaging data can be effectively neutralized through principled in-context adaptation, which also makes them practically usable and efficient.
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)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- My Representatives Going Is Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (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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