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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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed 
powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
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.
- A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.
- Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine 🔥🔥🔥🔥The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.
- ECHR row pushes Andrew Boff to leave London Tories after 53 years London Assembly member says he was blocked from the mayoral race over a disagreement over the ECHR.
- Thames Water creditors secure former Labour minister to drive rescue deal Stricken UK water supplier lines up John Hutton as independent chair designate if takeover goes ahead ...
- Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax in Budget Influential Labour figures had been pushing for equalising CGT and income tax, but critics have said this could drive wealthy people out of Britain.
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.
- Trump’s Big Lie about Ukraine 🔥🔥🔥And what Ukraine is giving to us ...
- Accident Or Not, The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn’t Rent Your Megaphone From Zuck 🔥This past weekend was the latest in an ongoing series of (massive) “No Kings” protests held around the country (and in some cases around the globe). The latest one was part of a “…
- FiftyPlusOne just caught a pollster faking data — and they copped to it In response to a request for comment on a FiftyPlusOne investigation, Wedgewood Polls admitted their data was bogus ...
- The Reoccuring Myth of Voter Fraud It’s “funny” how it’s surfacing just before an election. Again.
- NEWS: Musk Ordered Slowdown of Ukraine’s Starlink Himself as Trump Snaps at Reporters and GOP Turns on Trump’s Russia Policy Good evening, 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.
- Delivery Robots Accused Of Scanning Customers’ Faces, Sharing Biometric Data 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The battle over Chicago’s food delivery robots has reached the courts, with two customers accusing the companies behind them of collecting their biometric data without consent.
- Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record† 🔥Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...
- Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers, Politico reports† 🔥Anthropic representatives have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of ...
- Canadian news publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement† Publishers claim the Claude maker used their content to develop its large language model ...
- Our Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration’s Social Media† No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on ...
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 "Nerd Circuit": Creating a New Court for Regulatory Challenges† 🔥🔥 In recent years, opponents of new Executive Branch initiatives have developed a standard playbook for tying up those initiatives in court:
- AI and Government Disinformation: Vaccine Disinformation 🔥Vaccine hesitancy and measle cases are up in the United States. Indeed, the United States is on the brink of losing its measles-elimination status. Wid ...
- The Second Amendment After Doctrine† Constitutional rights have boundaries—and methodologies to identify them. Because the strength of constitutional rights depends on their narrowness, robust and ...
- Introduction: Global Catastrophic Risk, Advanced AI, and International Law (In: International Catastrophe Law, CUP Forthcoming) International law has long been driven by the imperative to prevent mass harm to humanity. In a new era of global catastrophic risks, including from ...
- Litigating Personal Brand: Intellectual Property & the Construction of Self The concept of “personal brand” is over half a century old but has reached total saturation in the era of social media. The idea of individual as brand encompas ...
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.
- FloatDoor: Platform-Triggered Backdoors in LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive settings such as software engineering, where their outputs directly shape downstream artifacts. Recent work has shown that an identi...
- A sub-Earth-sized TESS planet candidate in the nearby M-dwarf binary GJ 774, most likely orbiting GJ 774 A (TIC 351339274) 🔥🔥🔥Small planets transiting the nearest M dwarfs are the terrestrial planets most accessible to detailed characterisation. We report a sub-Earth-sized transiting planet candidate in the wide (17.6") M-dw...
- Probabilistic AI models outperform numerical weather prediction models on record breaking heat extremes† 🔥🔥AI weather prediction (AIWP) models have emerged as a key complement to physics-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, and now often outperform them on aggregate skill. Yet, several studies ...
- FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness† 🔥Transformers are slow and memory-hungry on long sequences, since the time and memory complexity of self-attention are quadratic in sequence length. Approximate attention methods have attempted to addr...
- Artificial Intelligence and Near-Total Law Enforcement Imagine, in the future, that police have access to powerful surveillance systems that can detect virtually all crimes committed outside of the home. S ...
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)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe 👻Boo!🎃 dek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.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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