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.
- Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Obscure Group With Trump Ties Plans to Route Funds to His Allies for Legal Fights 🔥🔥🔥
- White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants 🔥🔥
- Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers 🔥President Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason.
- Who were the far-right agitators at the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton? 🔥Protest over killing of Nowak and his treatment by police was attended by several far-right leaders, anti-immigrant influencers and known fascists ...
- President Trump seeks control of science funding 🔥The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
- ‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund 🔥Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions ...
- Keir Starmer uses disappearing messages on his phone, No 10 confirms 🔥A batch of messages between ministers and Lord Mandelson were published on Monday - but there were only a few from the prime minister.
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.
- If You Thought Tulsi Gabbard Was A Problem… 🔥🔥Today, Donald Trump appointed Tulsi Gabbard’s replacement as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in a social media post.
- Urgent Update: Republicans Pass War Powers Resolution in Major Trump Defeat, Epstein Investigation Escalates, and Media is Dying 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Major Update: CBS Tried to Inject Information into Stories to Help Trump, Trump Lashes out at Netanyahu and No Public Events in One Week 🔥Good morning.
- This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger. This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)
- The Supreme Court's Republican appointees end civil rights redistricting protections† The majority invoked “our colorblind Constitution” to expand and transform April's Callais decision. Sotomayor, in dissent, highlighted the "grave harms" the majority "inflicts."
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.
- Lawyers know AI can hallucinate. Judges have warned them. Courts have sanctioned them for it. They keep citing fake AI cases anyway.† 🔥🔥The trend of attorneys getting caught citing AI-hallucinated cases points to a broader problem: instead of checking AI’s work, people keep trusting it ...
- OpenAI Sued by Florida’s Attorney General Over AI Harms† 🔥🔥Suit alleging ChatGPT is an unsafe product follows criminal investigation over its role in campus mass shooting.
- xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity 🔥🔥Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
- Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged safety lapses† 🔥The lawsuit accuses the company of failing to warn users that ChatGPT could be dangerous and instead marketing it as safe and reliable.
- Trump Signs Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models†
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.
- Vigilance, Restraint, and Legitimacy: The Stubborn Persistence of Remedial Discretion in New Zealand Judicial Review† 🔥🔥 Remedies in judicial review in New Zealand are discretionary. Even when an applicant is successful, the judge retains the discretion&
- Jawbreaking and Counterboning† 🔥 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s public campaign of unlawful threats against television broadcasters, culminating in the high-profile preemption and later ret ...
- King, Parliament, and taxation in English constitutional history and the tariffs case 🔥This paper traces the history of the English constitutional principle that the crown cannot impose taxation without the consent of Parliament. It analyzes the i ...
- What is the Business of the Warren Court? Today's Supreme Court is conservative whereas the Warren Court was liberal. Yet the substantive principles underlying these two Courts are more compatible than ...
- An Open Letter to Law School Deans About the Importance of Commercial Law Education† The American Bar Association's Commercial Law Education Task Force was formed to bring renewed attention to the importance of commercial law in legal education.
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.
- What biology can, and cannot, tell us about conscious AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Progress in AI is turning machine consciousness from a philosophical curiosity into a societal issue, and has led to criticism of the widespread computational functionalism framework. Biological Natur...
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance 🔥🔥
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
- How LoRA Remembers? A Parametric Memory Law for LLM Finetuning† Large Language Models (LLMs) must continuously learn and update knowledge to remain effective in dynamic real-world environments. While Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used for such memory update...
- Vision-Language Models Suppress Female Representations Under Ambiguous Input† ArXiv link for Vision-Language Models Suppress Female Representations Under Ambiguous Input ...
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)
- The Popehat Fits Fine (@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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