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.
- Iran War Live Updates: U.S. And Iran Fail to Agree on Peace Deal After 21 Hours of Talks, Vance Says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students 🔥🔥
- ‘God does not bless any conflict’: pope issues new rebuke over Iran war 🔥🔥Social media post names no names but criticizes attempts to use religion to glorify US war in Middle East ...
- UK to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset 🔥Investment in plant due to supply batteries to Jaguar Land Rover expected to boost economic growth and secure jobs ...
- Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan 🔥Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan ...
- Here’s the latest. 🔥
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 Hungarian Candidate† 🔥🔥Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?
- Why the Cassidy Hutchinson Investigation Should Make Us Very Uncomfortable 🔥🔥I don’t know Cassidy Hutchinson, the former deputy to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who flipped and became a star witness during the January 6 Committee hearings and who is now reportedly under investigation. I don’t have an independent basis for knowing whether she was completely truthful when she testified. Certainly, then-Congresswoman Liz Cheney and committee staff thought she was on the up and up, or they wouldn’t have offered her testimony.
- Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA 🔥🔥It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M ...
- No, Pete. You Don't Have 'Complete Control.'† 🔥He can lie to Trump about the war. Trump can repeat his lies. But that doesn't mean they're really winning.
- Major Updates: New Epstein Files Concerning the Man Who Introduced Donald and Melania, Mass anti-Right Demonstrations, Iran Negotiations Stall 🔥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.
- UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
- OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters† 🔥🔥The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
- Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions and ignored her warnings | TechCrunch† OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.
- England’s sewage scandal hinges on lack of water industry regulation – new docudrama reveals how profit drives pollution† The water industry has been left to police its own pollution.
- Exclusive | Vile AI photos of KKK-hooded cops and cuffed gorillas passed around by elite NYPD unit — sparking discrimination suit The chat group used by the Major Case Squad was titled “Major case – team building,” with the offensive images showing up in 2025 and 2026, according to a lawsuit.
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 Crisis of Appropriations Law† 🔥Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principles, approv ...
- Research Paper (preprint): “Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest” The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest Authors Addison J. Wu Princeton University Ryan Liu Princeton University Shuyue Stella Li University of Washington Yulia Tsvetkov University of Washington Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University Source via arXiv DOI: […]
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.
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance† 🔥🔥🔥People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth over immediate results. In contrast, current AI systems are fundamentally short-sighted collaborators - optimized for providing instant and complete responses, without ever saying no (unless for safety reasons). What are the consequences of this dynamic? Here, through a series of randomized controlled trials on human-AI interactions (N = 1,222), we provide causal evidence for two key consequences of AI assistance: reduced persistence and impairment of unassisted performance. Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up. Notably, these effects emerge after only brief interactions with AI (approximately 10 minutes). These findings are particularly concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and is one of the strongest predictors of long-term learning. We posit that persistence is reduced because AI conditions people to expect immediate answers, thereby denying them the experience of working through challenges on their own. These results suggest the need for AI model development to prioritize scaffolding long-term competence alongside immediate task completion.
- What Matters for Simulation to Online Reinforcement Learning on Real Robots† 🔥🔥We investigate what specific design choices enable successful online reinforcement learning (RL) on physical robots. Across 100 real-world training runs on three distinct robotic platforms, we systematically ablate algorithmic, systems, and experimental decisions that are typically left implicit in prior work. We find that some widely used defaults can be harmful, while a set of robust, readily adopted design choices within standard RL practice yield stable learning across tasks and hardware. These results provide the first large-sample empirical study of such design choices, enabling practitioners to deploy online RL with lower engineering effort.
- Generative AI Practices, Literacy, and Divides: An Empirical Analysis in the Italian Context 🔥🔥The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) language technologies, particularly generative AI (GenAI) chatbots accessible via conversational interfaces, is transforming digital interactions. While these ...
- The Shrinking Lifespan of LLMs in Science 🔥ArXiv link for The Shrinking Lifespan of LLMs in Science ...
- Commander-GPT: Dividing and Routing for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection ArXiv link for Commander-GPT: Dividing and Routing for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection ...
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)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Third Rate Podcasts Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.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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