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.
- New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich 🔥“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
- After Threats, Mayors of Blue Cities Seek United Front Against Trump
- Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government
- Opinion | What’s Next, Comrade 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.
- The authoritarian checklist 🔥🔥🔥It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy ...
- August 28, 2025 On August 29, 1970, journalist Rubén Salazar died instantly when Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy Thomas Wilson fired an 8-inch bullet-shaped tear gas projectile into the back of his head.
- Grand Juries Are Resisting Trump’s Show Trials (w/ Andrew Weissmann) Andrew Weissmann explains.
- The D.C. Circuit's realpolitik orders in the foreign aid funding case What happened? Law Dork digs in.
- NEWS: Chaos at the CDC as RFK Jr. Pushes Out Pro-Vaccine Leaders Chaos at the CDC as Trump and RFK Jr. push out pro-vaccine leaders, Trump appoints conspiracy theorist to top election integrity role, Trump moves closer to deploying military to Chicago, 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.
- Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
- Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors† 🔥Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
- Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press† A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. His parents are suing the company and its CEO.
- ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims† As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.
- “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.
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.
- Law, Borders, and Speech Conference: Proceedings and Materials† 🔥Tensions between national law and the Internet’s global architecture have existed since the network’s earliest days. They took on new urgency in recent years, w ...
- Bias and the “Low Bar” of Relevance† 🔥Relevance, commonly understood as the cornerstone of evidence law, determines what the legal system acknowledges as a fact and which facts matter, t ...
- Of Labor, Antitrust, and Why the Proposed House Settlement Will Not Solve the NCAA's Problem† The NCAA recently settled three antitrust lawsuits. With a significant payout, it hopes to put its antitrust worries behind it. In doing so, it seeks to follow ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- The Administrative Law of McCarthyism† This Article recovers the largely overlooked legal and administrative history of the federal loyalty-security program, and argues that it played a formative ...
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.
- Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...
- Jet-Nemotron: Efficient Language Model with Post Neural Architecture Search 🔥We present Jet-Nemotron, a new family of hybrid-architecture language models, which matches or exceeds the accuracy of leading full-attention models while significantly improving generation throughput...
- The wall confronting large language models
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Foundation Models for Bioacoustics -- a Comparative Review† Automated bioacoustic analysis is essential for biodiversity monitoring and conservation, requiring advanced deep learning models that can adapt to diverse bioacoustic tasks. This article presents a comprehensive review of large-scale pretrained bioacoustic foundation models and systematically investigates their transferability across multiple bioacoustic classification tasks. We overview bioacoustic representation learning including major pretraining data sources and benchmarks. On this basis, we review bioacoustic foundation models by thoroughly analysing design decisions such as model architecture, pretraining scheme, and training paradigm. Additionally, we evaluate selected foundation models on classification tasks from the BEANS and BirdSet benchmarks, comparing the generalisability of learned representations under both linear and attentive probing strategies. Our comprehensive experimental analysis reveals that BirdMAE, trained on large-scale bird song data with a self-supervised objective, achieves the best performance on the BirdSet benchmark. On BEANS, BEATs$_{NLM}$, the extracted encoder of the NatureLM-audio large audio model, is slightly better. Both transformer-based models require attentive probing to extract the full performance of their representations. ConvNext$_{BS}$ and Perch models trained with supervision on large-scale bird song data remain competitive for passive acoustic monitoring classification tasks of BirdSet in linear probing settings. Training a new linear classifier has clear advantages over evaluating these models without further training. While on BEANS, the baseline model BEATs trained with self-supervision on AudioSet outperforms bird-specific models when evaluated with attentive probing. These findings provide valuable guidance for practitioners selecting appropriate models to adapt them to new bioacoustic classification tasks via probing.
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)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (promoted)
- dburbach.bsky.social (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Jaakko Husa (@husajaakko.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Hypervisible (@hypervisible.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Whale-Killing Windmill Hate (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.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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