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.
- Opinion | Revenge, Thy Name Is Emil Bove 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Hundreds of DOJ alumni warn Senate against Trump's appellate judge nominee 🔥More than 900 former U.S. Department of Justice employees on Wednesday warned the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee against confirming President Donald Trump's nominee Emil Bove to serve as an appellate court judge, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
- Trump Administration Initiates Trade Investigation of Brazil 🔥
- Spurned U.S. Attorney Clings to Job by Being Appointed His Own Assistant
- DOJ hits states with broad requests for voter rolls, election data Election clerks in both parties, who have been subject to harassment and lawsuits over Trump’s 2020 false election claims, worry about efforts to examine their voting machines.
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- The police militarization debate is over 🔥🔥🔥Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force ...
- Why We Don't Politicize the Military 🔥🔥When I started working on this piece, it was in the context of Trump‘s announced decision to bring the National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles to quell protests against ICE.
- The Most Unqualified Nominee in a Generation 🔥Why Emil Bove’s confirmation would mark a new low for the federal judiciary ...
- The future of the Voting Rights Act is at the Supreme Court 🔥A fight over whether individuals can sue under the key civil rights law has been percolating in the Eighth Circuit for the past two years. Also: The latest out of DOJ.
- NEWS: Trump Administration Demands Access to Voter Roles and to Inspect Voting Machines Trump Administration demands access to voter roles and inspections of voting machines, massive anti-Trump protests planned for tomorrow, and Trump brushes off Epstein, again.
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.
- Donald Trump Jr. And Eric Trump Invest in AI Data Centers After President Trump Announces Billions In Industry Investments 🔥🔥🔥🔥Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s venture aligns with their father’s AI policy push, positioning them to potentially profit from government-backed industry growth.
- TIME CHANGE: Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary 🔥🔥🔥United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary ...
- Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles† 🔥Curious about generative AI and copyright? Subscribers can join WIRED live on July 16 as we answer your questions about this critical topic.
- WeWork's former top lawyer is building an 'AI-native' law firm. Her model for client cost savings? TurboTax. 🔥Covenant wants to do for fund docs what TurboTax did for tax prep: make the old way look unnecessarily expensive.
- Courts Agree: AI Training Ruled As Fair Use in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta Two recent landmark trials on AI found that AI training on copyrighted works is fair use — but the details aren't so cut and dry.
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.
- Legally Speaking: Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?† 🔥🔥U.S. district court judges have issued their rulings in two copyright law cases, Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, on whether genAI dev ...
- What Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State Constitutions† State constitutional law has always been an essential component of federalism and a key to understanding the fabric of American law. It is even more important t ...
- Misleading advertising as a matter of unfair competition law The prohibition of false and misleading advertising should be the prototypical example of unfair competition law. False and misleading advertising, after all ...
- A defense of dual character concepts in legal philosophy and beyond Recent work in jurisprudence claimed that central legal concepts, such as that of LEGAL VALIDITY and of a legal RULE have a dual character structure. Moreover,
- Administrative Epistemology and the Myth of Individualized Adjudication: What Template-Based Processing Patterns Reveal About Legal Knowledge How do administrative agencies create legal knowledge? Through systematic analysis of six related Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings challenging Singular ...
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.
- Legally Speaking: Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥U.S. district court judges have issued their rulings in two copyright law cases, Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, on whether genAI dev ...
- Beyond vividness: Content analysis of induced hallucinations reveals the hidden structure of individual differences in visual imagery† 🔥🔥A rapidly alternating red and black display known as Ganzflicker induces visual hallucinations that reflect the generative capacity of the visual system. Recent proposals regarding the imagery spectru...
- Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety 🔥AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave. Like all other known AI oversight methods,...
- How Overconfidence in Initial Choices and Underconfidence Under Criticism Modulate Change of Mind in Large Language Models Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strikingly conflicting behaviors: they can appear steadfastly overconfident in their initial answers whilst at the same time being prone to excessive doubt when challenged. To investigate this apparent paradox, we developed a novel experimental paradigm, exploiting the unique ability to obtain confidence estimates from LLMs without creating memory of their initial judgments -- something impossible in human participants. We show that LLMs -- Gemma 3, GPT4o and o1-preview -- exhibit a pronounced choice-supportive bias that reinforces and boosts their estimate of confidence in their answer, resulting in a marked resistance to change their mind. We further demonstrate that LLMs markedly overweight inconsistent compared to consistent advice, in a fashion that deviates qualitatively from normative Bayesian updating. Finally, we demonstrate that these two mechanisms -- a drive to maintain consistency with prior commitments and hypersensitivity to contradictory feedback -- parsimoniously capture LLM behavior in a different domain. Together, these findings furnish a mechanistic account of LLM confidence that explains both their stubbornness and excessive sensitivity to criticism.
- Can AI-predicted complexes teach machine learning to compute drug binding affinity?† We evaluate the feasibility of using co-folding models for synthetic data augmentation in training machine learning-based scoring functions (MLSFs) for binding affinity prediction. Our results show th...
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)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Charlotte Garden (@charlottegarden.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee and HONEYMOONING aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nora Benavidez (@attorneynora.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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