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.
- Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥President faces Maga backlash over claims of hiding details of Epstein’s crimes to protect rich elite – including Trump ...
- Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘A family of traitors’: Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro 🔥🔥🔥US president’s attempt to help his rightwing ally avoid jail has sparked wave of anger and given boost to rival Lula ...
- State Dept. Official Says Criticism of Israel Can Lead to Visa Revocations 🔥🔥
- Opinion | Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase 🔥
- Couple allege ICE arrested them after pretending to be cops in ruse 🔥Parisa Firouzabadi and Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad say the agents claimed to have questions about a hit-and-run incident in order to get them out of their Baton Rouge apartment.
- Epstein Accuser Twice Told FBI About His Ties to Trump 🔥Maria Farmer shared concerns about Jeffrey Epstein and his associations with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton in 1996 and 2006, she said.
- Inspector Let Recruits Who Failed Psychological Exam Join the N.Y.P.D. 🔥
- Children’s National Hospital to end gender-transition care 🔥The change comes as the Trump administration has sought to restrict access to gender-transition care nationwide.
- Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 73 reported killed while waiting for food† 🔥Pontiff also speaks of anguish over Israeli strike on territory’s only Catholic church, which killed three people ...
- Water company sewage pollution to halve by 2030, minister pledges† 🔥Environment Secretary Steve Reed says the government is preparing a ...
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 War on Women† 🔥🔥🔥🔥When we said women and people who loved them needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024, it wasn’t hyperbole.
- Trump's CECOT prisoners were released, but the legal fight is nowhere near over The Trump admin will have to answer eventually for its lawlessness. Also: Law Dork, looking back and looking ahead. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 174 … DNI Tulsi Gabbard launched Operation Distract From Epstein this weekend, releasing a report about the Russian election interference operation in 2016 which concluded with her referral to DOJ that fo...
- They Say It's Biblical. I Say It's A Lie. What Conservative Christiantiy Calls Truth--and Why We Must Push Back.
- NEWS: Donald Trump Turns on Supporters Who Want More Transparency Regarding Jeffrey Epstein† Donald Trump turns on supporters who wants more transparency regarding Epstein, ICE turbocharges efforts to build detention spaces, ICE will use Medicaid and Social Security data, and 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.
- VOA newsroom director says Lake is violating VOA charter† 🔥🔥🔥Show that a free and independent press matters and is in our country’s national interest.
- AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back.† 🔥Authors are appealing for help from Congress and the courts after Meta and Anthropic used millions of books to create AI technology, without seeking consent.
- What Two Judicial Rulings Mean for the Future of Generative AI 🔥Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?
- The UK needs to deal with its e-scooter problem 🔥The UK has dragged its feet on e-scooter regulation, despite more than a million of them being privately owned and used.
- Kamer wil burgers auteursrecht geven op gezicht en stem: David versus Goliath? Door het auteursrecht uit te breiden willen de partijen het maken en verspreiden van deepfakes tegengaan.
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.
- AI Rights for Human Flourishing AI companies are racing to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): AI systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work. If they succeed,
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.
- Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February-...
- MoVieS: Motion-Aware 4D Dynamic View Synthesis in One Second We present MoVieS, a novel feed-forward model that synthesizes 4D dynamic novel views from monocular videos in one second. MoVieS represents dynamic 3D scenes using pixel-aligned grids of Gaussian…
- Attestable Audits: Verifiable AI Safety Benchmarks Using Trusted Execution Environments†
- The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models Current large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emerging capabilities in social intelligence tasks, including implicature resolution (Sravanthi et al. (2024)) and theory-of-mind reasoning (Shap...
- Vision Language Action Models in Robotic Manipulation: A Systematic Review 1]Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates. 2]Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering (IOC), Universitat Politecnica de…
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)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner.org)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maria Popova (@popovaprof.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Randall Eliason (@rdeliason.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.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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