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.
- Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out 🔥🔥🔥Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’
- Trump Gets the Retribution He Sought, and Shatters Norms in the Process 🔥🔥🔥
- The Comey Indictment Is an Embarassment 🔥🔥🔥The Justice Department should never have brought such a shoddy case.
- Jared Kushner’s Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts 🔥🔥
- Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte 🔥🔥Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte ...
- Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery 🔥Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
- Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges 🔥Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles ...
- White Men Make a Comeback in America’s Boardrooms 🔥Boards are seeking executives with C-suite experience to help navigate economic and political turmoil.
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.
- Hegseth puts us all at risk 🔥🔥🔥Why put all the American commanders in one room?
- SCOTUS's Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid 🔥Justice Kagan, dissenting for the Democratic appointees, noted the majority's "preliminary" order means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“
- Shutdown hostage taking 🔥Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment ...
- What separates the U.S. from Russia now? Andrew Weissmann on the James Comey indictment "We really did cross a red line."
- NEWS: Elon Musk and Steve Bannon Named in Epstein Files as Pressure to Release them Grows Elon Musk and Steve Bannon named in Epstein Files, Trump says more opponents will be prosecuted, Pete Hegseth orders generals to meet to promote a "warrior ethos" speech, 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.
- Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the antichrist† 🔥🔥🔥🔥This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.
- Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons† 🔥🔥Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
- Exclusive: Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation 🔥🔥Meta is targeting what it sees as onerous AI and tech policy bills across the country.
- If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?† 🔥Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.
- Zelenskyy warns AI drones are as dangerous as nuclear weapons† 🔥The Ukrainian president told the UN that it’s in every country’s interest to defeat Russia so as to prevent a catastrophic arms race.
- AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails† 🔥The tool, called Gaggle, uses artificial intelligence to search student documents for signs of unsafe behavior, such as substance abuse or threats of violence.
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.
- The Fed, Offices as Property, and the Meaning of "Cause"† 🔥The Federal Reserve Act states that "each member shall hold office for a term of fourteen years from the expiration of the term of his predecessor, unless ...
- Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters† School vouchers and charter schools are primed to grow at a time when public school systems are experiencing a precipitous decline in enrollment. Unfortunately,
- Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning First Amendment law tends to focus on the exercise of formal government power. Nevertheless, for over six decades now, it has been black letter law that informa ...
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.
- EmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations 🔥🔥We introduce EmbeddingGemma, a new lightweight, open text embedding model based on the Gemma 3 language model family. Our innovative training recipe strategically captures knowledge from larger models...
- Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks 🔥
- AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour This position paper argues for two claims regarding AI testing and evaluation. First, to remain informative about deployment behaviour, evaluations need account for the possibility that AI systems und...
- What Does Your Benchmark Really Measure? A Framework for Robust Inference of AI Capabilities ArXiv link for What Does Your Benchmark Really Measure? A Framework for Robust Inference of AI Capabilities ...
- An N-Plus-1 GPT Agency for Critical Solution of Mechanical Engineering Analysis Problems ArXiv link for An N-Plus-1 GPT Agency for Critical Solution of Mechanical Engineering Analysis Problems ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fatal Funnel Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Shoaib M Khan (@shoaibmkhan.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (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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