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.
- Pirro’s office won’t pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A statement from Pirro on Tuesday said D.C.’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”
- Government’s demand for trans care info sought addresses, doctors’ notes, texts 🔥🔥🔥🔥Legal experts said the Justice Department subpoenas related to medical care for transgender minors appear to be unprecedented.
- Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’† 🔥
- RFK Jr. Blamed by HHS Staff for Misinformation That Sparked CDC Attack 🔥A group of current and former staff members at the US Department of Health and Human Services are publicly blaming Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for spreading misinformation that led to a deadly sho...
- Sam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her 🔥
- National Guard vehicle collides with civilian car near US Capitol, trapping one person 🔥A National Guard vehicle collided with a civilian car near the U.S. Capitol as troops took positions around Washington during President Donald Trump’s crackdown ...
- More than 2.8m people in US identify as trans, including 724,000 youth, data shows 🔥Exclusive: largest data analysis of its kind counters Trump’s aggressive efforts to deny trans minors’ existence ...
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.
- 9 Reasons Why Scarborough Is Wrong About Newsom's Trolling 🔥🔥He ridiculed Newsom dragging Trump and MAGA on Morning Joe ...
- Black Communities Are Under Attack. We’re Fighting Back. 🔥🔥From voting rights to healthcare and environmental justice, Black Voters Matter is expanding our We Fight Back campaign to defend and reimagine democracy.
- Trump Uses Legal Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member To Resign 🔥Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern ...
- Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors 🔥One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666 ...
- Meet me Live? My Book Tour. As unreal as it still seems to me at times, my book Giving Up Is Unforgivable, comes out on October 21, just two months from now.
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.
- Founder of Google's Generative AI Team Says Don't Even Bother Getting a Law or Medical Degree, Because AI's Going to Destroy Both Those Careers Before You Can Even Graduate 🔥🔥🔥🔥The man behind Google's first generative AI program has some stark advice for advanced degree-seekers: don't do it, because AI will beat you.
- Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells 🔥🔥🔥Get ready for some AI spreadsheeting.
- Why Did Meta’s AI Policy Let Chatbots Have ‘Sensual’ Conversations With Kids? 🔥🔥🔥Forget the AI apocalypse: chatbots are already wreaking havoc. But it’s not too late for Congress to do something to bring tech companies to heel.
- Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI Critics of generative AI often describe it as a “plagiarism machine.” They may be right, though not in the sense they mean. With rare exceptions, generat ...
- WA lawyer referred to regulator after preparing documents with AI-generated citations for nonexistent cases† Judge warns of ‘inherent dangers’ of lawyers relying solely on AI amid growing number of fake citations or other errors due to the technology ...
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.
- Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Critics of generative AI often describe it as a “plagiarism machine.” They may be right, though not in the sense they mean. With rare exceptions, generat ...
- Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School (Excerpt from 'The Law of Law School')† Law school creates a challenging educational environment for all students. A “Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School” offers words of comfort and encour ...
- Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure† [Image of the Twitter bird logo photoshopped into a scene from Monty Python, available at: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2483004-2022-twitter-shutdown-rumors-
- The Weather and the Climate: On Teaching Constitutional Law† This essay, written for a volume on the teaching of constitutional law, describes three related challenges in teaching that subject at the present time. The fir ...
- Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion† The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to chal ...
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.
- Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Critics of generative AI often describe it as a “plagiarism machine.” They may be right, though not in the sense they mean. With rare exceptions, generat ...
- Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization† This paper is a collaborative piece between two worlds of expertise in the field of data visualization: accessibility and bias. In particular, the rise of generative models playing a role in accessibi...
- Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by communities.…
- Machine Learning for Detecting Collusion and Capacity Withholding in Wholesale Electricity Markets† Collusion and capacity withholding in electricity wholesale markets are important mechanisms of market manipulation. This study applies a refined machine learning-based cartel detection algorithm to t...
- Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews We study the impact of replacing human recruiters with AI voice agents to conduct job interviews. Partnering with a recruitment firm, we conducted a natural fie ...
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)
- Elderly White Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Hypervisible (@hypervisible.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Jaakko Husa (@husajaakko.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Miriam Posner (@miriamposner.com) (relegated)
- Quinn Yeargain (@yeargain.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Heidi Kitrosser (@heidikitrosser.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.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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