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.
- Top Aides Advise Trump Blasting Iran’s Infrastructure Is Fair Game 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Officials say hitting power plants and roadways is necessary to cripple Iran’s missile and nuclear programs.
- Trump Directs Officials to Pay All D.H.S. Employees 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Pam and Kristi, Kicked to the Curb 🔥🔥
- Ministers working with Labour backbenchers to temper Mahmood immigration plans 🔥🔥Exclusive: Starmer urged to go further with exemptions if he wants to avoid widespread anger from his own MPs ...
- Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk 🔥
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 ...
- NEWS: Trump Stays Silent on Missing Service Member, I Dive Into Questions About Trump's Whereabouts, White House Tries Restricting Media Access to Iran Satellite Images Good evening everyone.
- April 4, 2026 On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the U.S.
- NEWS: Pete Hegseth Purges Generals as Paranoia Grows, Military Silent as American Service Member is Missing, Trump Proposes Massive Cuts to Healthcare, Schools, and More Good morning everyone.
- Weekend Update #179: Russian Losses In March And UAVs, A Shocking Statistic Why Do You Need To Disable A Whole System? Think "Clogging" Effect; More UGV Stories ...
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.
- 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.
- "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...
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.
- The Hopeless Case For Birthright Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment Did Not Touch the Status of the Children of Illegal Aliens and Temporary Visitors to the United States† 🔥🔥 The conventional wisdom in the courts and the academy is that the children of illegal aliens or temporary visitors ...
- Separation of Copyright Powers† The United States Copyright Office’s multifarious roles in the U.S. copyright system have long prompted uncertainty about its position among the branches of the ...
- Arts Tax Policy: Democracy or Plutocracy? The United States National Endowment for the Arts' budget in 2024 was $207 million; in the same year the United States spent roughly between $2 and $3.35 ...
- Copyright, Learnright, and Fair Use: Rethinking Compensation for AI Model Training by Frank Pasquale, Thomas W. Malone, Andrew Ting :: SSRN Generative AI can rapidly output vast amounts of expressive content, some of which has great value for society. This new computational process also raises a ...
- Universities, Free Speech, and Tyranny† The Trump Administration has relentlessly attacked freedom of speech. The First Amendment rights of university students, faculty, and staff have been especially ...
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 Illusion of Understanding: How Middle-Schoolers Fail to Regulate Inquiry with ChatGPT in a Science Task† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative AI (GenAI) tools allow for effortless task completion, potentially fostering cognitive and metacognitive laziness in students. While surveys indicate widespread GenAI use among students as ...
- Bioinspired123D: Generative 3D Modeling System for Bioinspired Structures† 🔥ArXiv link for Bioinspired123D: Generative 3D Modeling System for Bioinspired Structures ...
- 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...
- GaelEval: Benchmarking LLM Performance for Scottish Gaelic
- Type-Checked Compliance: Deterministic Guardrails for Agentic Financial Systems Using Lean 4 Theorem Proving The rapid evolution of autonomous, agentic artificial intelligence within financial services has introduced an existential architectural crisis: large language models (LLMs) are probabilistic, non-det...
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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