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.
- The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent 🔥
- 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 ...
- Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Health Care and Housing
- Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm ...
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.
- Industry: from hard-to-abate to ready-to-electrify 🔥🔥How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.
- Important Sunday Night Update 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- The justices will decide this June whether to constrain Trump at all — or give up completely 🔥The justices have 26 cases outstanding. Even the best-case scenario isn't great. Also: Trump's slush fund "settlement" is getting court scrutiny. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- May 31, 2026 🔥On June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, stood up against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and his supporters, who were undermining American democracy in a c...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 390. 🔥… Trump made another 100+ batshit crazy posts on Truth Social again this weekend.
- Major Good News Update!! Spread the Word!! 🔥Good morning, 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.
- Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’ One super PAC is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence this year’s elections.
- State AI regulation is in the crosshairs of Trump executive order – The Markup Since 2016, California enacted more AI regulations than any other state. The president's new order against such laws worries state officials.
- California judges are testing a new AI clerk. You won't know if it's looking at your case Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.
- Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
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.
- 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 ...
- The Broken Ladder: AI, Remote Work, and Early-Career Hiring 🔥Is generative AI replacing junior workers? A growing literature answers yes, citing large declines in early-career hiring concentrated in GenAI-exposed occupati ...
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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