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.
- Robert S. Mueller III, ex-FBI director who led 2016 Russia inquiry, dead at 81 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Mueller's family told The New York Times in August that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
- Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism 🔥
- Trump Signals Retreat From Goal of Regime Change in Iran
- Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained ...
- Robert S. Mueller III, 81, Dies; Rebuilt F.B.I. and Led Trump Inquiry
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.
- Decency Died Along with Bob Mueller 🔥🔥🔥Former Marine, U.S.Attorney, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller passed away Friday evening.
- March 21, 2026 🔥On March 21, 1861, former U.S.
- NEWS: Bipartisan Backlash Over Trump’s Mueller Comments as Trump Set to Deploy ICE to Airports and Iran Conflict Intensifies Good evening, everyone.
- NEWS: Major Epstein Update, United States Lifts Sanctions on Iranian Oil, Attacks on Nuclear Site Sparks Major Concern, and More Good morning, everyone, and happy Saturday.
- Offener Brief anlässlich der Kleinen Anfrage der CDU/CSU-Fraktion zur politischen Neutralität staatlich geförderter Organisationen
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.
- Draft AI Framework to Replace State Laws Released by Senate (1)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Senate has released a draft national framework to replace state laws on artificial intelligence and promote the technology’s development while minimizing risks to Americans.
- The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths† 🔥After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.
- The Right Remedy in the Anthropic Case† The government can stop buying from Anthropic anytime it wants. It just can't bypass the procurement system Congress built to do it.
- Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation† The new policy framework also emphasized age verification for AI platforms.
- How AI Content Detection is Being Weaponized in the Iran War When trust in evidence collapses, the greatest casualty is accountability for real-world harm, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS.
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.
- Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy 🔥In August 2006, a federal district court held that the Terrorist Surveillance Program violates the Fourth Amendment. Scholars have debated the legality and cons ...
- Legal Aspects of Photovoltaic Waste Management and Recycling Responsibilities in Sustainable International Law: Reconciling Stability and Change† A solar panel typically consists of multiple silicon crystal sheets, known as photovoltaic (PV) cells, which are enclosed between protective layers of aluminum ...
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.
- AI and Blackness: Towards moving beyond bias and representation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥In this paper, we argue that AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed...
- Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons on autonomous learning from cognitive science† 🔥🔥🔥We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition. The proposed framework integrate...
- The Faithful Machine: Trust, Delegation, and Algorithm Aversion in Financial Advice† The algorithm aversion literature presents apparently contradictory findings: people sometimes reject algorithms that outperform humans, sometimes prefer them,
- WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents† ArXiv link for WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents ...
- Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning ArXiv link for Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning ...
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)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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