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.
- Exclusive | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
- Carmen de Lavallade, Dancer Whose Career Spanned the Arts, Dies at 94 🔥
- Justice Dept. Now Said to Be Reviewing 5.2 Million Pages of Epstein Files 🔥
- Richard Smallwood, a soaring voice in gospel music, dies at 77 🔥He became one of the country’s biggest names in gospel, with songs that were covered by Destiny’s Child, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder.
- Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation. 🔥Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
- Badenoch under fire as Tory shadow attorney general acts for Roman Abramovich 🔥Labour urges Conservative leader to reveal whether she knew David Wolfson was to represent Russian oligarch in legal case ...
- Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year 🔥
- Judge me on what I do, says new EHRC chair after transgender groups’ criticism 🔥Mary-Ann Stephenson says she must build relationship with LGBTQ+ sector amid debate over single-sex spaces ...
- Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa 🔥
- Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? | Naomi Klein 🔥I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile torment on top of torture, says Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and c...
- People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year 🔥Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who ...
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.
- Unsealed: Abrego Garcia 🔥🔥🔥The sealed order in the Abrego Garcia case that I wrote about in Sunday night’s “The Week Ahead” column was unsealed today.
- 500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025, Part 4 🔥🔥#301-400. June-September ...
- Important Tuesday Morning News Update 🔥CIA strikes on Venezuela, more mass cancellations at the Kennedy Center, military removes displays honoring Black soldiers, and more.
- Trump Is Helping Putin Kill Ukrainians The USA Is Running Down Ukrainian Air Defense in Coordination With Russia ...
- Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
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.
- 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident† 🔥🔥🔥🔥How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
- To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press 🔥Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
- 74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen† Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
- Musk's X resolves Eliza Labs lawsuit over AI agents Artificial intelligence software developer Eliza Labs has ended its lawsuit accusing billionaire Elon Musk’s X Corp of extracting valuable information from the company before launching copycat AI products.
- Cognitive Helmets for the AI Bicycle: Part 1 I hear people name these three fears: will developers lose their problem-solving skills, learning opportunities, and critical thinking? One science-backed area can help: better metacognitive strategie...
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.
- "Lyman Trumbull's Letter to Andrew Johnson": Authorship, Transcript and Artificial Intelligence† 🔥Somewhere in the Library of Congress, in a box of papers donated by the estate of President Andrew Johnson, is an unsigned and undated document titled ...
- The Meaning and Ambiguity of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment† Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualified anyone from serving in the House or Senate, or as a presidential elector, if they had betrayed their oath ...
- Child Rape and the Death Penalty† In May 2023, Florida authorized the death penalty for the sexual battery of a child under twelve. The law, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, ch ...
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.
- Less is more: Probabilistic reduction is best explained by small-scale predictability measures 🔥🔥🔥The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and ...
- Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence† Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human ...
- Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games† Ensuring the safety of language models (LMs) while maintaining their usefulness remains a critical challenge in AI alignment. Current approaches rely on sequential adversarial training: generating adv...
- DECEPTICON: How Dark Patterns Manipulate Web Agents ArXiv link for DECEPTICON: How Dark Patterns Manipulate Web Agents ...
- Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs† When not using reasoning, repeating the input prompt improves performance for popular models (Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek) without increasing the number of generated tokens or latency.
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)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Your Last Merry Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Brody (@dbrody.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (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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