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.
- Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
- Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard 🔥🔥The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
- Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign† 🔥A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
- Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
- Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
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.
- NEWS: Pete Hegseth Ordered "Kill Them All" as Two People Hung From the Side of a Boat Engulfed in Flames in Caribbean 🔥🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- NEWS: Governor Demands Trump Release MRI Results After Trump Uses Slur Against Walz and Launches New Attacks on Female Reporters 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 259. 11/28/25 🔥… Now we know why Pete Hegseth freaked out and threatened to court martial Sen.
- Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town 🔥Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
- So You've Decided to Target Random People with Military Force Here's why it's illegal.
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.
- Family Suing OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide Blasts 'Disturbing' Response From Company† 🔥🔥🔥OpenAI has responded to a landmark wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that a teen who died by suicide after talking to ChatGPT misused the software.
- OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide 🔥🔥Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.
- Judge's footnote on immigration agents using AI raises accuracy and privacy concerns† 🔥🔥A federal judge called out an immigration enforcement agent for using artificial intelligence to write the narrative of a use-of-force report as just a small part of a scathing opinion that rebutted f...
- The Wrist-Slappers Strike Again - The American Prospect† 🔥🔥A settlement with algorithmic collusion facilitator RealPage allows it to keep allegedly ill-gotten profits and continue innovating to raise rents.
- 8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps† 🔥Eight newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the tech giants of violating copyright law.
- The Trump Administration’s Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided 🔥Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial ...
- Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation 🔥Some are battling state AI laws and threatening to punish candidates who oppose rapid deployment of the technology.
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.
- Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths† 🔥Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths. Foss ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment† Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- The Legality of Omnibus Legislation Under EU Law: A Preliminary Analysis of Omnibus I Simplification Directive of CSRD and CSDD and its Legal Consequences on the EU Legal Order† This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the legal issues arising from the European Union's use of the Omnibus as the privileged legislative technique to '
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.
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
- Generalist Foundation Models Are Not Clinical Enough for Hospital Operations† 🔥Hospitals and healthcare systems rely on operational decisions that determine patient flow, cost, and quality of care. Despite strong performance on medical knowledge and conversational benchmarks, fo...
- Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment Reveals Trade-offs in Safety, Inclusivity, and Model Behavior ArXiv link for Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment Reveals Trade-offs in Safety, Inclusivity, and Model Behavior ...
- arXiv.org e-Print archive†
- Mathematics: the Rise of the Machines We argue how AI can assist mathematics in three ways: theorem-proving, conjecture formulation, and language processing. Inspired by initial experiments in geometry and theoretical physics in 2017, 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)
- Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Popehat of Serious Proportion (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.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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