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.
- Opinion | Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters ...
- Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran 🔥🔥President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.
- Justice Thomas Bemoans Incivility as Security Prompts Cancellation of In-Person Speech 🔥
- Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs 🔥Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat ...
- Opinion | The Great Unraveling Has Begun 🔥
- Taiwan Arms Sale Approved by Congress Is Delayed as Trump Plans Visit to Beijing 🔥
- Iranians Who Seized U.S. Embassy Release 4 Women and 6 Black Men (Published 1979) 🔥
- U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban 🔥Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...
- Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests 🔥Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence ...
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 Attack Iran? 🔥🔥🔥🔥Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption ...
- The Law of War 🔥I am not a law of war expert.
- Live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat & Joyce Vance No one speaks more eloquently about the art of resistance and why we shouldn’t give up than historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the author of Lucid here on Substack.
- The Questions Never Asked Because no one is just a cog.
- BREAKING: The United States is at War in the Middle East Again, I Have the Latest 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.
- Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments† 🔥🔥🔥The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...
- Actually, the left is winning the AI debate† 🔥🔥🔥But it does need to get organized.
- Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk'† 🔥Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
- Anthropic Takes a Stand† 🔥The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon’s demands.
- Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth† Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers ...
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.
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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.
- A Comparison and Evaluation of Fine-tuned Convolutional Neural Networks to Large Language Models for Image Classification and Segmentation of Brain Tumors on MRI† 🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in text-based healthcare tasks. However, their utility in image-based applications remains unexplored. We investigate the effectiveness of LL...
- Inferential Mechanics Part 1: Causal Mechanistic Theories of Machine Learning in Chemical Biology with Implications Machine learning techniques are now routinely encountered in research laboratories across the globe. Impressive progress has been made through ML and AI techniques with regards to large data set proce...
- Conformal Prediction with Corrupted Labels: Uncertain Imputation and Robust Re-weighting ArXiv link for Conformal Prediction with Corrupted Labels: Uncertain Imputation and Robust Re-weighting ...
- Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability AI agents are increasingly deployed to execute important tasks. While rising accuracy scores on standard benchmarks suggest rapid progress, many agents still continue to fail in practice. This discrep...
- Cognitive Models and AI Algorithms Provide Templates for Designing Language Agents ArXiv link for Cognitive Models and AI Algorithms Provide Templates for Designing Language Agents ...
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)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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