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.
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Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- Zack Polanski calls for ‘nuance’ when discussing antisemitism in rebuke of PM 🔥🔥🔥🔥Green party leader attacks Keir Starmer’s ‘silly games’ after prime minister accused him of playing down recent incidents ...
- Trump ousts National Science Board members 🔥🔥🔥Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
- The ‘Lasting Damage’ of Pirro’s Abandoned Fed Investigation 🔥🔥
- Opinion | Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse. 🔥🔥
- Dozens of MPs oppose Streeting’s new power to say what NHS pays for drugs 🔥🔥Health secretary’s ‘power grab’ to override Nice comes amid growing concern move may be illegal and benefit big pharma ...
- Safety fears as UK hospitals use nurses to cover for doctors due to shortage of medics 🔥🔥Exclusive: Advanced practitioners are being deployed to cover doctor rota gaps across the NHS, figures show ...
- ‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform? 🔥A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives ...
- Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel 🔥
- AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance 🔥
- King Charles’s Visit Will Not Include Private Meeting With Mamdani 🔥
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.
- Virginia Giuffre Set Something In Motion That Can't Be Stopped 🔥🔥🔥A Sad Anniversary ...
- Major Saturday News Update: Epstein News, Patel Firing Imminent, Iran Negotiations Falter—We Cannot Normalize This Moment 🔥Good evening everyone.
- NEWS: Important Epstein News, Food Supply for Troops Becomes Dire, Why I am Boycotting the White House Correspondents Dinner We should not make today business as usual.
- April 25, 2026 Tonight the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) held its annual black-tie dinner, which is designed both to raise money for the institution and to provide a glitzy night out for journalists...
- The US no longer leads The changing context for UK defence policy ...
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.
- Florida police used Flock cameras to track No Kings protesters† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Florida law enforcement agencies have used Flock cameras to track drivers tied to political protests and rallies throughout the state, police records show.
- AI Has Emboldened Child Predators, and Investigators Can't Keep Up† 🔥🔥To find real kids in danger, law enforcement must sift through a surge of AI-generated sex imagery.
- Altman apologizes after OpenAI failed to alert police before Tumbler Ridge killings 🔥🔥OpenAI's head, Sam Altman, has apologized for not alerting law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court showdown will dish the dirt 🔥Who cares about the jury when there are internal emails to be had?
- The Iranian women Trump ‘saved’ from execution are simultaneously real and AI-manipulated Liars are lying again ...
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.
- A Foundation, Not a Finish Line: Statewide Structure and the Future of Public Defense† This keynote address is, at its core, a love letter to public defense — to the defenders who stand beside accused people every day, force the system to recog ...
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.
- Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change ...
- LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate† 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...
- There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning† In this paper, we make the case that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging. By this we mean a theory which characterizes important properties and statistics of the training process, hidden ...
- Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI At least since Francis Bacon, the slogan 'knowledge is power' has been used to capture the relationship between decision-making at a group level and information. We know that being able to shape the i...
- Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?† LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...
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)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- My Representatives Going Is Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (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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