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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran 🔥
- Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan 🔥If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...
- The Guardian view on Britain’s religious right: using and abusing faith in the pursuit of power | Editorial 🔥Editorial: A professed desire to protect the country’s Christian identity is cover for a divisive politics which ignores the central message of the gospels ...
- Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk PM also criticises business figures and opponents of changes, many of which come into force on Monday ...
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.
- The Next Coup Attempt 🔥🔥🔥And How to Stop It ...
- The Temptations of the 25th Amendment 🔥Convicted Felon Donald Trump is unfit, unkempt, and unfortunately the President ...
- Urgent Update: Several Lawmakers Call for 25th Amendment as Trump Threatens to Blow up All of Iran on Unhinged Easter Holiday 🔥We are not living through normal times. I will never normalize what we are living through.
- Understanding Hungary: Substack Live with Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele Monday Morning at 9:00 am ET ...
- Major Good News Update and Calling Out the President's Easter Message Since Many Won't. Good morning, 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.
- #01208837520 in National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS (D.C. Cir., 26-5101) – CourtListener.com† 🔥🔥🔥🔥EMERGENCY MOTION [2167119] to stay underlying order pending appeal filed by Jessica Bowron, Douglas Burgum, DOI, Robert Downing, Executive Office of the President, GSA, NPS, Office of the Executive Re...
- Penalties stack up as AI spreads through the legal system† 🔥🔥Early scandals have not slowed lawyers' adoption of AI tools, even as court sanctions over fake legal briefs continue to rise.
- Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok† 🔥Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
- "Demonic," "Godless," "Un-American:" Harmeet Dhillon's Own Misconduct Will Be an Issue in Don Lemon Case - emptywheel† 🔥Among the many insane things Harmeet Dhillon did in the fortnight before her office charged Don Lemon after two judges said there was not probable cause against him was to platform tweets betting on t...
- Philadelphia courts ban all smart/AI eyeglasses, violators could face arrest† Starting Monday, March 30, 2026, those who bring eyeglasses equipped with video/audio recording capability to court could face arrest, officials say.
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.
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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.
- AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games 🔥🔥Assistance games are a promising alternative to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for training AI assistants. Assistance games resolve key drawbacks of RLHF, such as incentives for dec...
- From Heard to Lived Opinions: Simulating Opinion Dynamics with Grounded LLM Agents in Economic Environments 🔥🔥Opinion dynamics (OD) studies how individual opinions evolve and generate collective patterns such as consensus and polarization. While recent work explores OD using populations of LLM-based agents fo...
- Beyond Banning AI: A First Look at GenAI Governance in Open Source Software Communities 🔥Generative AI (GenAI) is playing an increasingly important role in open source software (OSS). Beyond completing code and documentation, GenAI is increasingly involved in issues, pull requests, code r...
- 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 ...
- Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI† Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name popularly given to a broad spectrum of computer tools designed to perform increasingly complex cognitive tasks, including many that used to solely be the provi...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- It Would Be A Gusher For The Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.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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