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.
- Everything With Trump’s Signature, Name and Likeness: Currency, Buildings and More (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Since the start of his second term, there have been more than a dozen instances of his name, image or signature emblazoned on a variety of American initiatives and institutions.
- There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series 🔥🔥You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
- A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around 🔥🔥
- New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK 🔥🔥The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals ...
- Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized 🔥A stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.
- Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones 🔥
- The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs† 🔥When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?
- Exclusive | Investigators Examine Contractor Installed at FEMA Under Kristi Noem 🔥The contractor’s office was searched as part of a broader investigation into a network of aides seeded throughout the Department of Homeland Security.
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.
- Top 10 Signs from No Kings, 3/28/26 🔥🔥🔥Another amazing turnout for No Kings all over the country despite cold weather in many parts of the country as we build our moment to turn out in big numbers for the midterms.
- March 29, 2026 🔥The news has come at us so fast and furiously in 2026 that I’ve hated to take a night off because the doubling-up of news just makes the next night harder.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 338. … NYT: “In big cities and small towns across the world, protesters gathered for thousands of rallies against Trump and his policies and actions, with the self-stated goal of fighting dictatorship.
- The birthright citizenship arguments will show what Trump has done to the United States Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case will test his anti-immigrant authoritarian project — and the court.
- Important Sunday Update: Republicans Concerned Following Historic No Kings Day, Mass GOP Resignations, Pope Slams Trump, and More Good evening everyone, we just got home from the hospital and everyone is doing great, thank you again!
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.
- Two More Giant Ls for Trump† 🔥🔥🔥🔥In Iran, in the Senate, and in court, the losses are piling up.
- Elon Musk’s Grok ordered to stop creating AI nudes by Dutch court as legal pressure mounts 🔥🔥A Dutch court issued a $115,000 penalty for every day xAI fails to remove non-consensual AI-generated nude images created by its chatbot Grok.
- Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information 🔥🔥Google's AI republished sensitive info like contact information, the suit claims.
- CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 🔥🔥The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
- Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's Anthropic ban† 🔥The order briefly stops the government from labeling tech company Anthropic a "supply chain risk," calling that "classic First Amendment retaliation."
- Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troubling, Judge Says 🔥During a hearing Tuesday, a district court judge questioned the Department of Defense’s motivations for labeling the Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk.
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.
- Section 230's Debts 🔥🔥Much attention has been paid to the unknown First Amendment permissibility of the government regulating social media platforms’ carriage practices. The Supreme ...
- REAL-TIME CRIME CENTERS AND THE BRADY PUZZLE† Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCCs) offer a paradigm shift for policing. Police departments can obtain actionable intelligence immediately after a crime is ...
- The Counterfeit Sham† There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
- Artificial Legal Agents and the Alien Stance We find ourselves ensnared in an ever nastier and strident debate over AI and its role in law, society, and private life. Derided as mindless math or a stoch ...
- Barefoot’s Broken Bargain: Why Algorithmic Predictions of Future Dangerousness Cannot Satisfy the Eighth Amendment† On November 9, 2023, Texas executed Brent Brewer after a jury concluded that he would pose a continuing threat to society. That determination rested in part ...
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.
- The Non-Delegable Duty to Think: Judicial Legitimacy and the Limits of Generative AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥From a normative perspective, the use of generative AI to automate the justification of judgments is problematic on several levels. A legal opinion is ...
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignment strategies via RLHF, system prompts, and output filters to block verbatim regurgitation of copyrighted works, and have cited the efficacy of these measures in their legal defenses against copyright infringement claims. We show that finetuning bypasses these protections: by training models to expand plot summaries into full text, a task naturally suited for commercial writing assistants, we cause GPT-4o, Gemini-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V3.1 to reproduce up to 85-90% of held-out copyrighted books, with single verbatim spans exceeding 460 words, using only semantic descriptions as prompts and no actual book text. This extraction generalizes across authors: finetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors. The effect is not specific to any training aut ...
- Estimating near-verbatim extraction risk in language models with decoding-constrained beam search 🔥Recent work shows that standard greedy-decoding extraction methods for quantifying memorization in LLMs miss how extraction risk varies across sequences. Probabilistic extraction -- computing the prob...
- LieCraft: A Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Deceptive Capabilities in Language Models† Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive general-purpose capabilities but also introduce serious safety risks, particularly the potential for deception as models acquire increased agency and hu...
- PedaCo-Gen: Scaffolding Pedagogical Agency in Human-AI Collaborative Video Authoring While advancements in Text-to-Video (T2V) generative AI offer a promising path toward democratizing content creation, current models are often optimized for visual fidelity rather than instructional efficacy. This study introduces PedaCo-Gen, a pedagogically-informed human-AI collaborative video ge…
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.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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