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.
- Turkey’s Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The president of the Turkish statistical institute, Sait Dincer, was removed from office and replaced by Erhan Cetinkaya, who had been deputy president of Turkey’s Banking Regulation and Supervision A...
- Economy Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner 🔥🔥Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump said without evidence that Erika McEntarfer “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”
- Trump fires data statistics chief after large revision to jobs report 🔥🔥Trump orders firing of top government economist after release of large revisions to employment data ...
- Alan Dershowitz says farmer’s market on the Vineyard refused to sell him pierogi over his politics - The Boston Globe 🔥In these tense political times, even visits to farmer's markets can cause controversy.
- MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY; But Observers Find Facts Unsupported by Figures 9.5% Growth Asserted Local Statistics Questioned Soviet Maintains Industry Showed 9.5% Growth in '62 (Published 1963) 🔥
- Ghislaine Maxwell moved to lower-security prison in Texas 🔥Her attorney did not explain why she was moved from a detention facility in Florida, where she is serving 20 years for sex trafficking.
- Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner 🔥
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.
- It Takes a Government 🔥🔥Bondi and Bove are the chief villains—but they couldn’t have done it alone.
- Trump Shoots the Messenger 🔥🔥Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory ...
- The Senate Confirms Trump's Criminal Defense Lawyer to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals 🔥In a tragic moment for the judiciary, Senate Republicans, instead of waiting to get all of the facts, rushed to confirm Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to a judgeship on the Third Cir...
- The Quality of Mercy is in Fact Very Strained (in the Epstein case) 🔥A Trump pardon for Maxwell may not be the end of her problems.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 183. 8/1/25 … Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s family is outraged that Trump just had Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a minimum security prison in TX after her meeting with his former criminal defense attorney Todd B...
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.
- Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World† 🔥🔥🔥Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.
- The Trump AI Action Plan is Deregulation Framed as Innovation | TechPolicy.Press 🔥🔥The administration's plan favors corporate interests over the public interest, write Public Citizen's J.B. Branch, Ilana Beller, and Tyson Slocum.
- Amazon Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows† 🔥🔥Amazon has invested in Fable, a start-up whose 'Netflix of AI' Showunner gen-AI tool lets users create scenes or entire episodes of a TV show.
- Trump AI Action Plan Raises Legal Questions, Potentially Violates Constitution | TechPolicy.Press† 🔥🔥ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke says Congress should conduct oversight to ensure agencies stay within legal and constitutional boundaries.
- Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener!† 🔥With our new Transcripts feature for Oral Arguments, you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case.
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.
- State Constitutions and the Right to Gender Autonomy 🔥🔥Trans scholars have long theorized a fundamental right to gender autonomy under the constitution: the right to self-determine one's gender, and to express that ...
- The Semi-Autonomous Administrative State Conflicting views about presidential control of the administrative state have too long been characterized in terms of a debate over agency independence. But the ...
- Judge Platt Potter and the Politics of Judicial Contempt of the Legislature† Suppose that a court arrests a legislator for contempt of court, a possible violation of legislative privilege. And suppose further that in response to ...
- Forum Choices for Judicial Review of Federal Agency Rulemaking Some of the most important federal policies are implemented and amended via federal agency rulemaking, where agencies exercise delegated authority to regulate l ...
- Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets† This paper argues that blockchain technology solves a problem the traditional securities markets still haven't fixed: the lack of a more direct, efficient, and ...
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.
- Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models interact with users through a simulated 'Assistant' persona. While the Assistant is typically trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, it sometimes deviates from these ideals...
- An American's Guide to the EU AI Act† The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024. The AI Act is long. It is complicated. It relies on a regulatory framework and institutions unfamiliar to ma ...
- Few-Shot Learning in Video and 3D Object Detection: A Survey Few-shot learning (FSL) enables object detection models to recognize novel classes given only a few annotated examples, thereby reducing expensive manual data labeling. This survey examines recent…
- ScVLM: Enhancing Vision-Language Model for Safety-Critical Event Understanding Accurately identifying, understanding and describing traffic safety-critical events (SCEs), including crashes, tire strikes, and near-crashes, is crucial for advanced driver assistance systems,…
- Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI† Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work, ...
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)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Neil Lewis, Jr. (@neillewisjr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Free Alaa now (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner.org) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Maria Popova (@popovaprof.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.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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