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.
- London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
- In Case of Emergency: The Dubious Legality of Trump Allies' Draft EO 🔥🔥🔥🔥Conservative activists say that declaring a national emergency would allow Trump to assert sweeping authority over elections. They're wrong.
- The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics† 🔥
- Shell CEO’s pay jumps 60% despite slump in profits at oil company 🔥Campaigners say people unlikely to ‘look favourably’ on package for Wael Sawan, which rose to £13.8m in 2025 ...
- 'I am no spy': Courier in Russian exploding parcels plot against UK talks to BBC 🔥Aleksandr Suranovas, charged with carrying out an act of terrorism for Russia, speaks to the BBC.
- $42 Million Verdict for Iraqi Victims of U.S. Abuse Is Upheld on Appeal 🔥
- Senators Propose Federal AI Commission Days After Anthropic Ban 🔥Bipartisan body would address national security and ethics questions, like a similar cybersecurity panel that helped set U.S. policy, lawmakers say.
- Oil price profiteering will not be tolerated, says minister 🔥Ed Miliband says the competition watchdog is primed to intervene if firms use the oil price shock to ...
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.
- Thursday in America 🔥Justice Amy Coney Barrett was in conversation with the Chief Justice’s Counselor, Judge Robert M.
- The Myth of America First 🔥How Donald Trump’s Retreat from Expertise Made the Iran Conflict Far More Dangerous ...
- A sharp warning in an ordinary news release: "President Trump’s Justice Department" 🔥Attorney General Pam Bondi has made clear since day one her view that DOJ's lawyers are "his lawyers." On Thursday, DOJ went further, claiming it's "Trump's Justice Department."
- March 12, 2026 🔥In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched a $10 million TV and digital ad campaign to run until Election Day.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 326. 5/12/26 🔥… Trump posted on Truth Social today that Americans shouldn’t be concerned about high gas prices: “The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make...
- NEWS: Iran Escalates War After Trump Declares Victory, Iranian Hackers Hit U.S. Company, Allies Admit They Don’t Know Trump’s Plan 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Important: Horror Strikes From Virginia to Michigan as Attacks Grip America While White House Admits Threat From Iran on Homeland Never Existed 🔥Good evening everyone.
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.
- Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
- Anthropic Sues the Administration† Here's why Trump wanted to bring firms to heel with his executive orders. Here's what can happen when he fails.
- Anthropic’s Lawsuit Should Absolutely Destroy the Pentagon in Court† But make no mistake: The company is not one of the good guys.
- Iranian school was on U.S. target list, may have been mistaken as military site The strike on an Iranian elementary school killed at least 175, many of them children, raising questions as to whether the military’s use of AI-enabled targeting was a factor.
- Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission. About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday, a week before the UK government is due to issue an assessment on the economic cost of proposed changes in copyright law. Continue reading...
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.
- Trade Secret Societies Trade secret law is premised on secrecy, though it has not yet contended with the individual and social effects of keeping and leaking secrets in the psychologi ...
- Foreword: The History of the Constitution is Our Future† As constitutional interpretation becomes rooted ever more deeply into the past the Constitution seemingly has less and less to say about our present. It seems t ...
- Faux Amis in Design Law† In the United States, designs can be protected under all three main intellectual property (IP) regimes. There are some key terms of art that are used in all thr ...
- The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025† Traditional legal scholarship rankings rely almost exclusively on career-long publication metrics, a method that inherently favors decades-old articles and ofte ...
- Political Fair Use During election season, politicians and political campaigns often use pop culture or iconic works, such as viral memes or popular songs, to help convey their po ...
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.
- Generative AI & Fictionality: How Novels Power Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the ...
- What We Don't C: Manifold Disentanglement for Structured Discovery† 🔥Accessing information in learned representations is critical for annotation, discovery, and data filtering in disciplines where high-dimensional datasets are common. We introduce What We Don't C, a no...
- Extracting books from production language models† 🔥Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed…
- Scalable Training of Mixture-of-Experts Models with Megatron Core Scaling Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training introduces systems challenges absent in dense models. Because each token activates only a subset of experts, this sparsity allows total parameters to grow muc...
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)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.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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