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.
- ‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company 🔥🔥🔥🔥$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
- Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters. 🔥🔥🔥
- Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers 🔥🔥🔥
- This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi 🔥🔥The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections ...
- Epstein survivors say financier lured them with promise of college education 🔥🔥Multiple survivors claim Epstein dangled admission to top universities to ensnare them in his sexual abuse network ...
- ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants 🔥🔥
- We Have Questions About the FBI’s Fulton County Search 🔥The administration continues to litigate the 2020 election more than five years later.
- ‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty 🔥Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties ...
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.
- Why Indict Don Lemon? 🔥🔥🔥Don Lemon was taken into custody Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards.
- If They Call Me A Domestic Terrorist 🔥This morning, I stumbled across an amazing poem by a wonderful man named Michael F.
- Minnesota's effort to end the surge is rejected as journalists are arrested, but pushback continues 🔥A judge denied Minnesota's ambitious request — a day after Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested. But, in Texas, a judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his dad released.
- Your Cheat Sheet on Complicity in the Epstein Saga 🔥Who knew complicity could be so...complicated?
- Important Update: More Significant Epstein Documents Show Powerful People Lying as Mass Protests Break Out Across America 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.
- Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing A.I. Secrets for Start-Up in China† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence† 🔥The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
- Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children† 🔥Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.
- Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations† Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.
- How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are†
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.
- Offices and Officers: The Constitutional and Legal Frameworks of Canadian Civil-Military Relations† 🔥🔥This chapter examines the complex constitutional and legal frameworks that underpin civilian control of the military and command of the armed forces in Canada.
- Son of Sam, Service-Connected Entitlements, and Disabled Veteran Prisoners† American veterans have been over-represented in the United States carceral system since at least the Vietnam War era. Prior to 1980, veterans who were wounded ...
- Amicus Brief Superficially in Support of Thaler’s Petition for Certiorari (Which I Guess I’m Not Going to File Now) This is an essay styled as an amicus brief in support of Dr. Richard L. Thaler’s petition for certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Thaler used a generative AI mo ...
- Against First Amendment Traditionalism† The First Amendment freedoms of speech and press are under serious strain. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
- Court Reform and State Constitutions† State legislatures regularly propose and enact laws that seek to shape the substantive outcomes of state courts. These measures, including court-packing efforts ...
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.
- How AI Impacts Skill Formation† 🔥🔥AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...
- HiRO-ACE: Fast and skillful AI emulation and downscaling trained on a 3 km global storm-resolving model 🔥Kilometer-scale simulations of the atmosphere are an important tool for assessing local weather extremes and climate impacts, but computational expense limits their use to small regions, short periods...
- Public Utility for What?: Governing AI Datastructures† Both in the U.S. and in Europe, initiatives for AI governance have focused principally on identifying and mitigating the risks created by AI models and their do ...
- Probing Neural Topology of Large Language Models ArXiv link for Probing Neural Topology of Large Language Models ...
- Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment† Pretraining corpora contain extensive discourse about AI systems, yet the causal influence of this discourse on downstream alignment remains poorly understood. If prevailing descriptions of AI behavio...
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)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leather Panel Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (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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