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.
- The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine 🔥🔥🔥The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
- ‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe 🔥🔥In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.
- ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival 🔥🔥Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away ...
- Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 🔥🔥Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
- Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis 🔥The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
- Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do | Jonathan Freedland 🔥Farage has cosied up to US figures who espoused conspiracy theories about Jews. That kind of talk is becoming alarmingly mainstream on the Maga right, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland ...
- Is the decline of reading making politics dumber? 🔥As people read less they think less clearly, scholars fear ...
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 Moment to Pick a Side Has Come 🔥🔥“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
- NEWS: Group of Military Lawyers Conclude Hegseth Committed War Crimes, Murder, or Both 🔥A group of former military lawyers have concluded, in a new statement, that Hegseth and anyone under him, have committed war crimes, murder, or both.
- The Trump administration's lawlessness is front and center, on multiple fronts 🔥The response to the shooting of two National Guard troops, reporting on the boat-strike murders, and the continued contempt inquiry keep Trump's lawlessness in the news.
- LIVE SOON: Hegseth's "Kill Them All" Order Constitutes a War Crime! 🔥Starting Nov 29 at 8:30 PM EST ...
- NEWS: GOP Senator Opens Formal Investigation Into Hegseth's Possible War Crimes as Trump Warns Venezuela War is Imminent 🔥Good morning everyone.
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.
- Family Suing OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide Blasts 'Disturbing' Response From Company† 🔥🔥OpenAI has responded to a landmark wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that a teen who died by suicide after talking to ChatGPT misused the software.
- Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation† 🔥🔥Some are battling state AI laws and threatening to punish candidates who oppose rapid deployment of the technology.
- Hundreds of Chicago residents sign petition to pause robot delivery pilot program over safety concerns 🔥🔥There is a growing call for the City Council to hold a public hearing on the pilot program and publish accessibility data ...
- 8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps† 🔥Eight newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the tech giants of violating copyright law.
- The Trump Administration’s Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided† 🔥Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial ...
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.
- Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths† 🔥Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths. Foss ...
- International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law How are scholars of law, especially international law, struggling to diagnose and inhabit the present? And how do those various efforts speak to one an ...
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.
- Large Language Models Require Curated Context for Reliable Political Fact-Checking -- Even with Reasoning and Web Search 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) have raised hopes for automated end-to-end fact-checking, but prior studies report mixed results. As mainstream chatbots increasingly ship with reasoning capabilities and ...
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
- Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment Reveals Trade-offs in Safety, Inclusivity, and Model Behavior† ArXiv link for Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment Reveals Trade-offs in Safety, Inclusivity, and Model Behavior ...
- HERMES: Towards Efficient and Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs Informal mathematics has been central to modern large language model (LLM) reasoning, offering flexibility and enabling efficient construction of arguments. However, purely informal reasoning is prone...
- LLMs and the Human Condition Theory based AI research has had a hard time recently and the aim here is to propose a model of what LLMs are actually doing when they impress us with their language skills. The model integrates three...
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)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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