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.
- University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | We’ve Just Seen How Trump Can Be Stopped 🔥🔥
- Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign
- House Panel Subpoenas Harvard in Tuition-Pricing Inquiry (Gift Article) The subpoena letter adds yet another front to the battle between the university and Republicans in Washington.
- Newsom Sues Fox News for Saying He Lied About Call With Trump
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.
- What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803 🔥🔥And Why it Matters Today ...
- June 27, 2025 🔥🔥After the Supreme Court today decided the case of Trump v.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 160. 6/27/25 🔥… Rep.
- They hate London because it is beautiful 🔥Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.
- NEWS: Gavin Newsom Sues Fox News for $787 Million in Major Lawsuit Gavin Newsom sues Fox News in $787 million lawsuit, CASA Inc. shifts its strategy to block Trump's birthright citizenship executive order, Trump ends trade talks with Canada, and much more.
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.
- Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch† 🔥🔥🔥🔥A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors' books.
- Why Did Microsoft Invest In OpenAI? 🔥🔥Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris As ever, thank you for subscribing to Where's Your Ed At Premium. Email me at ez@betteroffline.com with the subject header "Premium" sometime if you...
- In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors† 🔥🔥U.S. District Judge William Alsup's ruling this week, in a case brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson last year, opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train their large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.
- Copyright Cases Should Not Threaten Chatbot Users’ Privacy† 🔥🔥Like users of all technologies, ChatGPT users deserve the right to delete their personal data. Nineteen U.S. States, the European Union, and a host of other countries already protect users’ right to d...
- Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features 🔥Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says ...
- Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight† 🔥On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we explore Disney and Universal's lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.
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.
- Private Enforcement at the Founding and Article II† 🔥🔥Article II vests the executive power in the President. Yet Congress routinely empowers private plaintiffs, not just the President, to enforce public regulatory ...
- NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment 🔥Over the past quarter-century, industrial speech law and policy have converged on novel First Amendment questions about the regulation of the dominant Internet ...
- Intentionally Unintentional: GenAI Exceptionalism and the First Amendment† This paper challenges the assumption that courts should grant First Amendment protections to outputs from large generative AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemin ...
- Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship† Ex parte Merryman is iconic. It is, arguably, the first major American case testing the scope of lawful military authority during war time. Not only during a w ...
- Interpreting the Ambiguities of Section 230 As evidenced by the confusion expressed by multiple Justices in last Term’s Gonzalez v. Google, there is little consensus as to the scope of Section 230, the la ...
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.
- Search | arXiv e-print repository† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Intentionally Unintentional: GenAI Exceptionalism and the First Amendment† 🔥This paper challenges the assumption that courts should grant First Amendment protections to outputs from large generative AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemin ...
- Characterization and Mitigation of Training Instabilities in Microscaling Formats ArXiv link for Characterization and Mitigation of Training Instabilities in Microscaling Formats ...
- Continual Learning as Computationally Constrained Reinforcement Learning ArXiv link for Continual Learning as Computationally Constrained Reinforcement Learning ...
- Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models ArXiv link for Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models ...
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)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social)
- Bad Popehat With Evil Intentions (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.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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