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.
- F.B.I. Said to Dig Up Old Investigative Files on Democratic Lawmaker 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Running for Congress at 30,000 Feet: A Flight Attendant’s Campaign Trail 🔥
- ‘It’s not sustainable’: US farmers reeling as Iran war pushes fertilizer costs up 🔥Closure of strait of Hormuz – a key fertilizer production and transportation route – has squeezed farmers as prices jump ...
- The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs 🔥When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?
- Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’ Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say ...
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.
- Well Done America! 🔥🔥🔥This was Boise, Idaho, today.
- No Kings, No Clowns 🔥Kings The signs were epic this morning in Freeport, Maine, where I’m hanging out with my kid for the weekend.
- Mike Johnson's Institutional Betrayal 🔥The DHS shutdown is morphing into a constitutional crisis ...
- March 28, 2026 Almost exactly a year ago, on March 27, 2025, President Donald J.
- BREAKING: Millions Protest Trump in Historic Global Protests, Republicans Grow Concerned About November Elections, and More Good evening everyone, what a day.
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.
- Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-Generated Sexual Abuse Content† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.
- Judge blocks Pentagon order branding Anthropic a national security risk† 🔥Anthropic argued that the Trump administration was punishing it for speaking about the risks of its AI technology amid a bitter dispute with the Pentagon.
- Meta Shares Finally Falter After Court Losses, AI Delays And Metaverse’s Decline† 🔥Back-to-back landmark court losses pushed further losses for the Facebook parent’s stock.
- Two More Giant Ls for Trump† 🔥In Iran, in the Senate, and in court, the losses are piling up.
- Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's Anthropic ban† 🔥The order briefly stops the government from labeling tech company Anthropic a "supply chain risk," calling that "classic First Amendment retaliation."
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.
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignme ...
- The Non-Delegable Duty to Think: Judicial Legitimacy and the Limits of Generative AI† From a normative perspective, the use of generative AI to automate the justification of judgments is problematic on several levels. A legal opinion is ...
- REAL-TIME CRIME CENTERS AND THE BRADY PUZZLE† Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCCs) offer a paradigm shift for policing. Police departments can obtain actionable intelligence immediately after a crime is ...
- The Counterfeit Sham There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
- Preserving Balance in the EU Digital Single Market: How Like Company Could Reframe Copyright and Innovation in the Generative AI Era† This article analyses the Court of Justice of the European Union's first referral on generative AI and copyright, i.e. Case C-250/25 Like Company v. Google, whi ...
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.
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- LieCraft: A Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Deceptive Capabilities in Language Models 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive general-purpose capabilities but also introduce serious safety risks, particularly the potential for deception as models acquire increased agency and hu...
- Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage† Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded in society, there has been limited empirical study of how their usage affects human empowerment. We present the first large-scale empirical analysis of d...
- Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI Artificial intelligence is transforming mathematics at a speed and scale that demand active engagement from the mathematical community. We examine five areas where this transformation is particularly…
- Barefoot’s Broken Bargain: Why Algorithmic Predictions of Future Dangerousness Cannot Satisfy the Eighth Amendment† On November 9, 2023, Texas executed Brent Brewer after a jury concluded that he would pose a continuing threat to society. That determination rested in part ...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.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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