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.
- Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37% 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset ...
- For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors 🔥🔥
- Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure 🔥🔥
- How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo 🔥The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
- Inside Bad Bunny’s Historic Super Bowl Halftime Show 🔥Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
- Andrew shared confidential information with Epstein as trade envoy, files suggest 🔥Under official guidance, trade envoys have a duty of confidentiality over sensitive, commercial, or political information.
- Mandelson revelations show need for tougher UK constraints to resist rule of the rich | Heather Stewart 🔥Labour must protect democracy and learn lessons from Jeffrey Epstein’s efforts to influence government policy ...
- Water bosses in England exploiting bonus loophole face crackdown 🔥Exclusive: Ministers to act after last year’s legislation ‘outwitted’ by failing firms paying millions to executives ...
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.
- The Long Ukrainian Winter† 🔥🔥How You Can Help ...
- The Death of Direct File 🔥Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration ...
- Jeffrey Epstein's Global Reach 🔥There are emails from men and women who were helping Epstein procure girls in Australia, London, Paris, Russia, Sweden ...
- NEWS: Republican Congressman Threatens 'Nuclear Option' to Expose Epstein Conspirator Names as Trump DOJ Fails to Search Key Epstein Property 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- When Shame Sanctions Are Necessary 🔥The punishment needs to fit the "crime."
- Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions 🔥On Friday night, Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan split with more than 150 judges who have ruled against the Trump admin's unilateral, harsh interpretation of a 1996 law.
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.
- Victims urge tougher action on deepfake abuse as new law comes into force† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough ...
- Trump Administration Official Says Quiet Part Out Loud on AI-in-Government Plans† A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal, writes Jordan Ascher.
- The Missing Fair Use Argument in the Copyright Battle Over AI Summaries Robert Diab walks through litigation over AI overviews and the unresolved questions they raise over copyright and fair use.
- Lenovo Hit With Suit for Breaking US Bulk Data Transfer Rule (1) Lenovo (United States) Inc.'s use of third-party tracking tools on its website directly violated a Department of Justice regulation that restricts transmitting bulk consumer data to China, a proposed ...
- AI, Taxi Drivers, and Administrative Law, by Cary Coglianese - Yale Journal on Regulation Agencies will not be able to rely solely on today’s most ubiquitous forms of AI—namely, those based on ChatGPT and similar large language models—to avoid their obligation under the APA’s arbitrary and...
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.
- Responsible AI Agents† Thanks to advances in large language models, a new type of software agent, the artificial intelligence (AI) agent, has entered the marketplace. Companies such a ...
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.
- Do Models Hear Like Us? Probing the Representational Alignment of Audio LLMs and Naturalistic EEG† 🔥🔥Audio Large Language Models (Audio LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in integrating speech perception with language understanding. However, whether their internal representations align with ...
- BIRD: Behavior Induction via Representation-structure Distillation Human-aligned deep learning models exhibit behaviors consistent with human values, such as robustness, fairness, and honesty. Transferring these behavioral properties to models trained on different ta...
- How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...
- Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini: Case Studies and Common Techniques† Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have opened new avenues for accelerating scientific research. While models are increasingly capable of assisting with routine tasks, their ability to co...
- Large Language Model Reasoning Failures ArXiv link for Large Language Model Reasoning Failures ...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Meat And Ferments Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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