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.
- Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- L.A. public defenders are on a win streak as Trump's Justice Department charges activists 🔥🔥🔥🔥The federal public defender's office in L.A. was 5 and 0 against prosecutors in trials related to immigration raids and protests. Trial No. 6 was last month.
- Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals 🔥🔥🔥Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked ...
- How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo 🔥🔥The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
- Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters 🔥🔥Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party ...
- Opinion | A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms 🔥🔥
- ‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas 🔥
- Donald Trump prompts fury after posting racist video about Barack and Michelle Obama – US politics live 🔥The US president posted a racist video on Truth Social that included disproven allegations about ballot-counting ...
- Opinion | The Risk We Face in Opposing 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.
- We are not Nazis. 🔥🔥🔥Also: No Kings, No Dictators.
- We Can't Let The Abuser-In-Chief Control the Narrative 🔥We the people and fearless journalists must stand together. That includes confronting Trump's Epstein denials and the continuing lies of election fraud that he's shaping for the midterms.
- JD Vance BOOED at the Olympics 🔥See the moment: They are despised internationally.
- LIVE SOON: Racist Covfefe from Racist Convicted Felon Trump: A Live with Danielle Moodie 🔥Starting Feb 6 at 2:00 PM EST ...
- An Ethnic Cleansing Averted (For Now) 🔥An Update on Springfield, Ohio ...
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.
- The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
- Trump Administration Official Says Quiet Part Out Loud on AI-in-Government Plans† A ProPublica report on plans to use AI to write regulations at the US Department of Transportation should be a warning signal, writes Jordan Ascher.
- Randomly quoting Ray Bradbury did not save lawyer from losing case over AI errors Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.
- AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detectors† People are using generative AI to flood courts with filings, legislatures with constituent letters and publications with submissions. AI detectors are no silver bullet.
- California investigates Elon Musk’s AI company after ‘avalanche’ of complaints about sexual content – The Markup Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office is looking into whether a new AI image editing tool from Elon Musk's company violates California law.
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.
- Paying For The Crime And The Time: Pay-To-Stay Laws And Constitutional Limits† 🔥Pay-to-stay laws allow states to seek reimbursement from currently or formerly incarcerated people for the costs of their incarceration. These statutes impose s ...
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.
- The Limits of Regulating AI Safety Through Liability and Insurance: Lessons From Cybersecurity 🔥🔥As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in decision-making, design, and development across public and private sectors, proposals to ...
- The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding 🔥
- Self-Distilled Reasoner: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models Knowledge distillation improves large language model (LLM) reasoning by compressing the knowledge of a teacher LLM to train smaller LLMs. On-policy distillation advances this approach by having the st...
- A Unified Definition of Hallucination: It's The World Model, Stupid! ArXiv link for A Unified Definition of Hallucination: It's The World Model, Stupid!
- Cost-Efficient RAG for Entity Matching with LLMs: A Blocking-based Exploration Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances LLM reasoning in knowledge-intensive tasks, but existing RAG pipelines incur substantial retrieval and generation overhead when applied to large-scale ent...
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)
- In The Ancient Libraries of 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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