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.
- Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Justice Department publishes some missing Epstein files related to Trump 🔥The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
- ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI 🔥As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large ...
- Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...
- Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors ...
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.
- U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus 🔥🔥Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military ...
- Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act 🔥🔥Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.
- Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it. 🔥Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Update: Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a life sentence.
- NEWS: Major Epstein Investigation Launched as Iran Threatens Trump's Life and USA Launches Most Intense Strikes to Date 🔥Good morning everyone.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation† 🔥The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.
- The War on Anthropic: Pretextual Designation and Unlawful Punishment† 🔥The Trump admin’s action against Anthropic is barred by statutory limits, the First Amendment, and the Constitution’s bills of attainder.
- The Government Must Not Force Companies to Participate in AI-powered Surveillance 🔥The rapidly escalating conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon, which started when the company refused to let the government use its technology to spy on Americans, has now gone to court. The Depa...
- OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government† 🔥Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
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 ...
- Access Shrugged: The Decline of the Copyleft and the Rise of Utilitarian Openness This article maps patterns of interest in key terms associated with copyright and online culture in the US context. Using exploratory factor analysis of data fr ...
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.
- From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asymptomatic AI Harms for Dignified Human-AI Interaction† 🔥🔥🔥🔥In the future of work discourse, AI is touted as the ultimate productivity amplifier. Yet, beneath the efficiency gains lie subtle erosions of human expertise and agency. This paper shifts focus from ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Towards Safer Social Media Platforms: Scalable and Performant Few-Shot Harmful Content Moderation Using Large Language Models† 🔥The prevalence of harmful content on social media platforms poses significant risks to users and society, necessitating more effective and scalable content moderation strategies. Current approaches re...
- Knowledge without Wisdom: Measuring Misalignment between LLMs and Intended Impact† LLMs increasingly excel on AI benchmarks, but doing so does not guarantee validity for downstream tasks. This study evaluates the performance of leading foundation models (FMs, i.e., generative pre-tr...
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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