David Colarusso

FWIW, I like making things: watercolors, furniture, crosswords, software, games, flowcharts, stories, reasoned arguments… 👋 Art: www.davidcolarusso.com Bio: sadlynothavocdinosaur.com Projects: sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/projects/ Papers: sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/papers/

@marclauritsen.bsky.social wins the American #LegalTech Awards Lifetime Achievement category! A giant upon whose shoulders the entire industry stands.

I like the idea, the execution may have some issues. 1. I *REALLY* hope "artificial intelligence" is a defined term. 2: It's not capitalized, so it's probably not a defined term. 3: The "may not use in any manner" in combination with a lack of definition could also be problematic.

12yo's homework asked if the family had WWII stories. So, I finally read my grandfather's memoir. I'd put it off for many years. I didn't want to look into that darkness, but having read it, all I have to say is, he was a profoundly kind man in a profoundly horrible time, & I'm proud to be his kin.

SIMPLICITY. How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And does n't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

I’m still laughing at this line form The Economist, “LinkedIn, a social network for strivers…” economist.com/finance-and-... (Gift Article)

DREAMS. Let me not mar that perfect dream By an auroral stain, But so adjust my daily night That it will come again.

Last night I was thinking about how powerful cooperation is as a strategy from an evolutionary perspective. And I was thinking about how you don't have to be very good at it to benefit from it. Ants are famous for their cooperation, but they aren't exactly well organized or efficient. They just […]

I learned something new from my 8yo. “Taco cat” is a palindrome!!!

One does not collaborate with an AI tool. One uses the tool. If there is a collaboration, it is with those who trained it, including the authors of its training data.

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

Remember: ICE lied so often about people posing threats to them, to justify their violence in Chicago, that a Chicago federal judge wrote it was "difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything" ICE said. Do you know what it takes to get a Fed district judge to WRITE THAT in a ruling?

Few things raise the spirits quite like gathering with several hundred folks to enjoy live theater, esp. when you’re flanked on either side by your kids. Fun was had by all.

Out for a walk. Look at that pollen basket.

We have a prism ball in the front room, and sometimes while you’re reading a book, it’s just like wow!

Read this post! David even added a custom AI Law Librarians feed (my new home page <3)

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

The Economist's forecast now has better than even odds that the Dems could win control of the Senate with 52 seats, which let's be clear, is what they'd really need. 51's not doing it. 🤞

Yesterday, in a faculty meeting (law school) someone was referencing a set of numbers and said, “six, seven.” I made the hand motion, followed by a knowing look with a colleague who also has a young child. That’s it, that’s the scene I’m still thinking about this morning.

> The “OpenAI model” sets up a crazy race among humans to digest and explain a messy AI proof... while the “Anthropic model” puts a private company in the position of picking and choosing which human mathematicians get to be the emissaries of the AI

I feel like anthropic must have two draft versions of the S-1, depending on midterm results.

Reading over students’ weekly reflections (about law stuff), the best part is the moment they cross the line from "This is black and white," to "Wow, I can't believe I thought this was black and white.” It turns out, it does in fact depend. ;)

Something I never hear people talk about is how much designing and running a good data analysis feels like reading poetry. They’re both incredibly rich active works of meaning making, mediated and anchored by the source but fueled by the “reader.” They seem to feed the soul in similar ways.

As someone teaching law students about AI & the law, @thefordon.bsky.social asked if I would write about how I keep up with it all. This article is my answer. TL;DR: use an RSS reader¹ with an algo that works for you, not someone else. ___ ¹ thefinitescroll.org

Looking to keep up with the new #SCOTUS session? @lolscotus.bsky.social has you covered. Not only do they post links to laugh lines in oral arguments, they also maintain this feed devoted to SCOTUS Talk. Happy first Monday in October.

It’s the first Monday of October. You know what that means? Time to warm up @lolscotus.bsky.social This year I’ve enabled a new threading feature for cases with multiple laugh lines. Follow and enjoy.

SUSPENSE. Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity or doom.

Oh nooooooooo! I only just realized I probably have to talk about the super intelligence executive order in class on Monday. I mean the class is (for now) called AI & the Law.

This was on my to-watch list for far too long, finally got to it today, and it was a delight, a pure joy-inducing delight.