In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Wednesday June 25, 2025

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.

  1. Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
  2. ‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government  🔥🔥🔥
  3. He's Not the Left's Joe Rogan -- But He May Be Even Better  🔥
  4. The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving 
  5. Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests 

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.

  1. Today in Politics, Bulletin 158. 6/24/25  🔥🔥
  2. June 24, 2025  🔥
  3. The Incredibly Stupid, Self-Defeating Democratic Panic about Zohran Mamdani  🔥
  4. Seven Legal Matters and a Possible Ceasefire 
  5. NEWS: Donald Trump Lashes Out at Israel and Iran Saying They Don't Know What the F*ck They are Doing 

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.

  1. Tesla's robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators | TechCrunch  🔥🔥🔥🔥
  2. Elon Musk's Lawyers Claim He 'Does Not Use a Computer'  🔥🔥
  3. Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not  🔥
  4. Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims 
  5. Millions of Résumés Never Make It Past the Bots. One Man Is Trying to Find Out Why. 

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.

  1. Brief of Scholars of Economics and Innovation as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees in Massachusetts v. NIH  🔥🔥🔥
  2. Caste Discrimination in NY – Starting a Conversation  🔥
  3. Disobeying Lawful But Unethical Orders in the Army 
  4. Bailing Out Biometrics 
  5. Are there humans in human rights due diligence? 

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.

  1. Agonistic Image Generation: Unsettling the Hegemony of Intention  🔥🔥🔥🔥
  2. AutomataGPT: Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata  🔥
  3. Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Game-Theoretic Attribution of Function of Neural Units 
  4. Two Sonification Methods for the MindCube 
  5. A Fourier Explanation of AI-music Artifacts 

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." ;)

  1. @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org
  2. @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
  3. @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
  4. @emptywheel.bsky.social
  5. @maxkennerly.bsky.social
  6. @bcfinucane.bsky.social
  7. @leahlitman.bsky.social
  8. @justinhendrix.bsky.social
  9. @lawfaremedia.org
  10. @lawrencehurley.bsky.social
  11. @coreyryung.bsky.social
  12. @kenwhite.bsky.social
  13. @johnpfaff.bsky.social
  14. @joedunman.bsky.social
  15. @davidmenschel.bsky.social
  16. @dburbach.bsky.social
  17. @evanbernick.bsky.social
  18. @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
  19. @stevevladeck.bsky.social (promoted)
  20. @adhaque.bsky.social (promoted)
  21. @questauthority.bsky.social (relegated)
  22. @toobigtofail.bsky.social (relegated)

¹ Approx. 1 day lookback.
² Attorneys, law profs, et al.
³ News-like links (law)
Supra note 1.
Supra note 2.
Blog-like links (law)
⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback.
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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