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.
- Body cameras show moments after federal agent shot into man’s car in D.C. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The footage, which shows little of the shooting itself, was made public following D.C. Council legislation compelling its release.
- White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project 🔥🔥🔥
- Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives 🔥🔥
- Ten years after Brexit, this is the UK: a divided nation frozen in time | Aditya Chakrabortty 🔥Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty ...
- Trump files emergency appeal to keep building White House ballroom “Time is of the essence!” Justice Department lawyers wrote, saying a ruling to pause construction puts the president at risk.
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.
- NEWS: Republicans Upset With Trump's Deal and Demand Congressional Approval, Iran Celebrates, Democrats Score Major Election Victories, Strikes Continue 🔥🔥Good morning everyone.
- So… what happens when the Attorney General gets fired 🔥🔥The Florida Bar said it couldn’t act while Pam Bondi held federal power. That excuse ended today.
- April 8, 2026 🔥On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S.
- The Oligarchical Corridor 🔥A Source of War ...
- Yes, Trump Must Go 🔥Watch now | Mad Hattery and Other Outrages: A Short Video ...
- NEWS: Ceasefire on the Verge of Collapsing, Pentagon Threatens the Pope and the Church, Congress Seeks to Stop Trump, New Epstein Developments 🔥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.
- Take Mike Lee’s Deranged Posts Seriously† The senator from Utah is the SAVE America Act’s most enthusiastic proponent in the upper chamber—and he could soon become our next attorney general. Uh-oh.
- Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm† Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI ...
- Counterpoint | People have free speech rights. AI doesn’t.† "Do you want to live in a state where a tech billionaire can release an app that encourages your child to die by suicide and be protected from punishment by Minnesota’s Constitution?" state Sen. Erin ...
- Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk Label Should Stay In Place, Appeals Court Says The AI company now faces conflicting rulings in its fight over how Claude can be used by the US military.
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 Brady Database† 🔥🔥🔥The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brady v. Maryland turns sixty this year. The Brady doctrine, which requires the government to disclose favorable and mate ...
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l ...
- 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 ...
- Epistemic Discovery, Psychedelic Drugs, and the First Amendment† In recent years, the concept of cognitive liberty has drawn support from scholars and activists worldwide. Proponents of cognitive libert ...
- 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 ...
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...
- SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks† 🔥
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l ...
- Responsible Intelligence in Practice: A Fairness Audit of Open Large Language Models for Library Reference Services As libraries explore large language models (LLMs) as a scalable layer for reference services, a core fairness question follows: can LLM-based services support all patrons fairly, regardless of demographic identity? While LLMs offer great potential for broadening access to information assistance, they may also reproduce societal biases embedded in their training data, potentially undermining libraries' commitments to impartial service. In this chapter, we apply a systematic evaluation approach that combines diagnostic classification to detect systematic differences with linguistic analysis to interpret their sources. Across three widely used open models (Llama-3.1 8B, Gemma-2 9B, and Ministral 8B), we find no compelling evidence of systematic differentiation by race/ethnicity, and only minor evidence of sex-linked differentiation in one model. We discuss implications for responsible AI adoption in libraries and the importance of ongoing monitoring in aligning LLM-based services with core professional values.
- Researchers waste 80% of LLM annotation costs by classifying one text at a time† Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for text classification across the social sciences, yet researchers overwhelmingly classify one text per variable per prompt. Coding 100,000 te...
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)
- Popehat Of Avignon (@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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