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.
- Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Astronauts Dedicate Moon Crater to Carroll Wiseman, Wife of NASA Commander 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? 🔥🔥New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
- Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan† 🔥If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...
- Trump’s Cozy Transportation Secretary 🔥Sean Duffy is partnering with the industries he regulates in new ways.
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 Next Coup Attempt† 🔥🔥🔥🔥And How to Stop It ...
- Trump's New Attempt To Keep You From Voting 🔥Last Tuesday, Donald Trump signed a new executive order designed, to put it simply, to make it more difficult for us to vote.
- Living in Hell War crimes coming: A horrifying update ...
- The Week Ahead The president of the United States greeted the country with this Truth Social post about his intentions in Iran on Easter Sunday: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in on...
- NEWS: Alarm Bells go Off Following Trump's Unhinged Press Conference, Iran Mocks Trump, Questions About his Mental Fitness Raised Good afternoon 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.
- Suno is a music copyright nightmare 🔥🔥🔥Can’t stop the slop.
- Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age 🔥Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.
- Himes Fact-Checked on ‘Misleading’ Claims About Warrantless Spying - The American Prospect 🔥Jim Himes keeps telling his constituents that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t spy on them, and “have no reason” to buy Americans’ data. Advocates say that’s untrue.
- In One Day (Mar. 31), 17 U.S. Court Decisions Noting Suspected AI Hallucinations in Court Filings 🔥So reports Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases Database. And recall that likely (1) many hallucinations aren't spotted; (2) many that…
- OpenAI Calls for Investigation Into Musk by California, Delaware OpenAI urged the attorneys general of California and Delaware to investigate potential “improper and anti-competitive behavior” by Elon Musk in his efforts to block OpenAI from restructuring as a for-profit company.
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.
- The Allegiance Reading of the Citizenship Clause and Its Critics: A Response 🔥🔥 The Fourteenth Amendment establishes two requirements for natural born citizenship: First, one must be born in the United St ...
- Speech-Inputs and Their Constitutional Value The Constitution, as is widely appreciated, commonly protects speech. Speech, however, does not occur in isolation from prior, and sometimes later ...
- Democratic Resilience and the Supreme Court's Democracy Problem The Constitution creates a democracy that was intended to last through the generations—"to secure the blessings of liberty" for both the Framers and t ...
- Assessing the Law and Mindfulness Movement This Article provides the first robust assessment of the law and mindfulness movement, now two decades old. It first situates “mindfulness” etymologically, cons ...
- Data Lakes Are a Choice, Not a Necessity: How Constitutional Architecture Exposes the Convenience Excuse by Michael Leahy :: SSRN A companion article established that government 'golden records', comprehensive integrated databases, constitute digital general warrants prohibited by the Four ...
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.
- SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks 🔥🔥🔥
- AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games† 🔥🔥Assistance games are a promising alternative to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for training AI assistants. Assistance games resolve key drawbacks of RLHF, such as incentives for dec...
- From Heard to Lived Opinions: Simulating Opinion Dynamics with Grounded LLM Agents in Economic Environments† 🔥Opinion dynamics (OD) studies how individual opinions evolve and generate collective patterns such as consensus and polarization. While recent work explores OD using populations of LLM-based agents fo...
- Beyond Banning AI: A First Look at GenAI Governance in Open Source Software Communities† 🔥Generative AI (GenAI) is playing an increasingly important role in open source software (OSS). Beyond completing code and documentation, GenAI is increasingly involved in issues, pull requests, code r...
- Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender† 🔥People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We ...
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) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Radical Left Group Of Popehats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.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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