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’s DHS pick, Markwayne Mullin, never served in military but talks as if he did 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Oklahoma senator has repeatedly made cryptic claims about ‘overseas’ work and war experience, while refusing to explain them ...
- Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Late-Arriving Mail-In Ballots Law 🔥🔥
- Exclusive: US SEC's ex-enforcement chief clashed with bosses over Trump cases before leaving, sources say 🔥🔥The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, had clashed with agency leaders over the direction of its enforcement program, including the handli...
- Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault and ordered to pay $19.25m 🔥Donna Motsinger alleges she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1972 after he gave her a glass of wine in his limo ...
- Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high 🔥State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat ...
- 'Starfleet Academy' Will End After Season 2 🔥The latest 'Star Trek' show, which was renewed for its second season back in 2024, will now come to an end once it's released.
- Royal Mail staff say they were told to hide post to look like targets met 🔥BBC Your Voice hears from postal workers who say ...
- Hungarian election candidate accuses ruling party of treason over alleged EU leak to Russia 🔥Péter Magyar, who leads in polls, says Orbán government is ‘betraying Hungarian and European interests’
- US judge blocks Trump administration from detaining thousands of refugees 🔥A federal judge on Monday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a new policy that would subject thousands of refugees to arrest and detention if after a year in the Unit...
- Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me 🔥Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra responds to the Grammarly “expert review” controversy, and whether AI is extracting more value than it creates.
- ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here’s What to Know. 🔥
- Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says Military Will Postpone Further Strikes on Iranian Energy Infrastructure 🔥President Trump on Saturday gave Tehran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants.
- Inside the Turmoil at RFK Jr.’s CDC, as Told by Current and Former Employees (Gift Article) 🔥Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable.
- ‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650 🔥Despite the supposed end of the fighting last year, casualties in the territory continue to rise, with volunteer ambulance driver Abed Elrahman Hamdouna joining the long list of those killed by Israel...
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.
- What Was Actually in the Mueller Report 🔥🔥🔥There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.
- If Birthright Citizenship Falls–The American Experiment Fails 🔥🔥On April 1 the ACLU is going to the Supreme Court to defend the Constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship–here is what you need to know ...
- Federal employees are not ok 🔥A new survey shows collapsing federal employee morale ...
- March, 19-21: God is a comedian A stiff drink is recommended ...
- The World Has Stopped Waiting for America to Come to Its Senses The world used to wait for Washington. Now, they’re moving on. While Trump fumbles the mantle of leadership, a new global order is taking shape without us.
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.
- Vietnam’s New AI Law Balances Innovation Push With Tight State Control 🔥🔥The Law on Artificial Intelligence draws on preceding legislation, notably the EU’s AI Act, which includes risk-based management of AI, reports Lam Le.
- Copyright laws must change in AI age, claims the government. Artists say big tech should just pay under existing laws 🔥🔥Artists and rights holder groups have been defiant about the need to change copyright law in meetings with the office of Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton, who has been spearheading the government's push to bring AI investment to Australia.
- Considering How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions 🔥Boston University School of Law professors Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey say today's AI systems are a "death sentence" for civic institutions.
- The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry 🔥Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.
- Does A.I. Need a Constitution? A new set of precepts is meant to make the chatbot Claude wise, decent, and safe. It also marks a striking transfer of public responsibility from constitutional government to private tech firms.
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.
- Drafting Regulatory Preambles (Draft Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States) 🔥🔥This is a draft report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments ...
- "Mere Machines": Why Originalism Requires Robotic Judging 🔥In 1776, Thomas Jefferson stated that a judge should be a “mere machine.” This statement captures the founding generation’s conception of the judicial ...
- Democratic Sovereignty and the Prerogative to Make Money: The Case of the Federal Reserve The surge of executive power unleashed by the Supreme Court has reached the Federal Reserve, provoking a crisis that the justices seem suddenly anxious to avoid ...
- Parker Immunity as a Wellspring of Democratic Governance The antitrust laws establish foundational marketplace rules, embodying the principle that citizens, acting through their elected representatives, shoul ...
- The Case for Professional Disobedience As the rule of law comes under assault by the very institutions meant to uphold and protect it, do doctors, lawyers, and other learned professionals have a duty ...
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.
- Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services 🔥🔥🔥Generative AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini are some of the fastest-growing consumer services. Individuals using such services must accept their terms of use before access, and conform to these ter...
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
- [2603.19220v1] Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation† Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.19220v1: Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation ...
- Author Page for Courtney M. Cox :: SSRN Total downloads of all papers by Courtney M. Cox ...
- Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We ...
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)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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