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.
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Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- ICE Arrests Violated Order Requiring Warrants in D.C., Judge Rules 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Supreme court’s Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ 🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: Data in justice department filing quoted by Samuel Alito in his opinion relied on unusual methodology, a Guardian analysis has found ...
- US Awards Peter Thiel–Backed Nuclear Startup $900 Million 🔥The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it is awarding $2.7 billion to three companies to boost domestic uranium enrichment.
- Opinion | Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time. 🔥
- David Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday 🔥He was born before the Great Depression, came of age in WWII, and is still making wildlife documentaries. Brits call David Attenborough a national hero, as he celebrates his 100th birthday.
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.
- Texas Is the Reason a Five-Year-Old Is Alone Without Her Mother This Mother's Day 🔥🔥Génesis is 5. Her mom was deported to Honduras. Meenu Batra was caged for six weeks. Hayam El Gamal spent 10 months at Dilley. The Labrador kids' stepmother is at Dilley right now. Because of Texas.
- BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court Strikes New Maps, Prisoners Who Spoke About Maxwell Punished, Ballroom in Trouble, More AI Attacks on Me 🔥🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Important Update: Trump 'Exhausted' as Truth Social has Terrible Financial Quarter, ABC Fights Back, and he Desperately Seeks End to War 🔥Good evening everyone.
- The Met Gala and the killing of human culture 🔥Fashion spectacle once helped conceal the machinery of power. In today's age of excess and technological extraction, the illusion is failing.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 366. 5/8/26 🔥… The VA Supreme Court struck down the redistricting referendum in a 4-3 decision.
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.
- Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals† 🔥🔥🔥🔥UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
- Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI 🔥🔥Week two of Elon vs. Altman.
- Despite Fukushima Trump hands nuclear regulation to Silicon Valley - Asia Times 🔥🔥This article was originally published by ProPublica. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National ...
- DOGE Slammed by Judge for Using AI to Find $100 Million in Cuts 🔥A US judge blasted the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency project for relying on artificial intelligence tools as it orchestrated roughly $100 million in cuts to federal fundin...
- Apple Will Pay $250 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Siri's AI Features 🔥If you bought an iPhone 15 or 16 in the US, you could be set to pocket up to $95 per device as Apple settles class-action lawsuit.
- How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House 🔥The Trump administration pulled a 180 on AI oversight, inducing Sacks’ worst nightmare: more government regulation on technology.
- Some iPhone owners could get up to $95 payment after Apple agrees to settle case for $250 million 🔥Apple has agreed to a $250 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over false advertising of Siri's AI capabilities.
- New Suit Claims Zuckerberg Personally Directed Copyright Infringement of Published Works to Train AI Models | Law.com 🔥The suit brought by five publishers and author Scott Turow is unusual in its attempt to hold an individual company executive responsible for the alleged infringement.
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.
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing “Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
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.
- AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot 🔥🔥🔥🔥Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review quality, consistency, and timeliness. Recent advances in AI have led the co...
- Stop Automating Peer Review Without Rigorous Evaluation† 🔥🔥Large language models offer a tempting solution to address the peer review crisis. This position paper argues that today's AI systems should not be used to produce paper reviews. We ground this positi...
- How to Assess AI Literacy: Misalignment Between Self-Reported and Objective-Based Measures The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in K-12 education highlights the need for psychometrically-tested measures of teachers' AI literacy. Existing work has primarily relied on eithe...
- When AI Meets Science: Research Diversity, Interdisciplinarity, Visibility, and Retractions across Disciplines in a Global Surge The extent to which Artificial Intelligence (AI) can trigger generalized paradigm shifts in science is unclear. Although some of these technologies have revolutionized data collection and analysis in ...
- Almost-Orthogonality in Lp Spaces: A Case Study with Grok Carbery proposed the following sharpened form of triangle inequality for many functions: for any $p\ge 2$ and any finite sequence $(f_j)_j\subset L^p$ we have \[ \Big\|\sum_j f_j\Big\|_p \ \le\ \left(\sup_{j} \sum_{k} α_{jk}^{\,c}\right)^{1/p'} \Big(\sum_j \|f_j\|_p^p\Big)^{1/p}, \] where $c=2$, $1/p+1/p'=1$, and $α_{jk}=\sqrt{\frac{\|f_{j}f_{k}\|_{p/2}}{\|f_{j}\|_{p}\|f_{k}\|_{p}}}$. In the first part of this paper we construct a counterexample showing that this inequality fails for every $p>2$. We then prove that if an estimate of the above form holds, the exponent must satisfy $c\le p'$. Finally, at the critical exponent $c=p'$, we establish the inequality for all integer values $p\ge 2$. In the second part of the paper we obtain a sharp three-function bound \[ \Big\|\sum_{j=1}^{3} f_j\Big\|_p \ \le\ \left(1+2Γ^{c(p)}\right)^{1/p'} \Big(\sum_{j=1}^{3} \|f_j\|_p^p\Big)^{1/p}, \] where $p \geq 3$, $c(p) = \frac{2\ln(2)}{(p-2)\ln(3)+2\ln(2)}$ and $Γ=Γ(f_1,f_2,f_3)\in[0,1]$ quantifies the degree of orthogonality among $f_1,f_2,f_3$. The exponent $c(p)$ is optimal, and improves upon the power $r(p) = \frac{6}{5p-4}$ obtained previously by Carlen, Frank, and Lieb. Some intermediate lemmas and inequalities appearing in this work were explored with the assistance of the large language model Grok.
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)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Popehat Dropping To Its Grave (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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