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.
- Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Fired Prosecutor Challenges Trump’s Claims to Power in Lawsuit 🔥🔥🔥
- Elon Musk's comments at march were abhorrent, says home secretary 🔥Shabana Mahmood says the tech billionaire ...
- Fired Prosecutor Challenges Trump’s Claims to Sweeping Power in Lawsuit 🔥The Justice Department gave no reason for its dismissal of Maurene Comey, a longtime federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of the former F.B.I. director, James Comey.
- CBS shifts to appease the right under new owner 🔥CBS' new owner, David Ellison, has taken concrete steps to address the concerns of the news division's sharpest critics — particularly President Trump and his allies.
- Exclusive: No evidence of primary residence violation by Fed Gov Lisa Cook, says Michigan official 🔥The property tax authority in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook hasn’t broken rules for tax breaks on a home there that Cook declared her primary residence.
- Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’ 🔥Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements ...
- Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer 🔥
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 Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. 🔥🔥🔥🔥I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
- Red States: Less Freedom, More Poverty, Shorter Lives Nothing better illustrates each parties vision than how they manage statewide policy.
- A Prosecutor Sues Maurene Comey v. The Department of Justice ...
- The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah | Substack On writing, fighting, and beauty in dark times. Click to read The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- September 15, 2025 Six years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:
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.
- If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector† 🔥🔥🔥🔥There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the…
- Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries | TechCrunch† 🔥🔥Penske's lawsuit accuses Google of abusing its monopoly power in search to force publishers to support AI summaries.
- Putting Passion Into Practice: Firm Leader Sherrese Smith Meets The Moment 🔥Top lawyer and Paul Hastings Global Managing Partner Sherrese Smith is leveraging vast expertise in tech, AI and privacy to guide clients through this transformative era.
- Communication to the public is about to shape the future of AI copyright We are probably squarely in the middle of the AI copyright regulatory cycle, judging by previous technological inflexion points. The first half of this cycle has been dominated rightly by copyright input cases, that is, cases that try to discern whether training an AI with content found online and without authorisation from the owners amounts to copyright infringement. After dozens of lawsuits, we're starting to see some hints of what the future may bring, all technological revolutions inevitably go through a period of legal uncertainty to eventually settle into some form of equilibrium, and in the last week we've seen a couple of settlements between the parties, particularly in…
- I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the idea.
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.
- Economic Inequality and the Separation of the Economic and the Political in Modern Constitutionalism† 🔥🔥 This essay examines the relationship between constitutionalism and economic inequality from the lens of the critique of political economy. In pa ...
- Judicial Time: A Research Note† 🔥This Research Note is an effort to lay out some ways of thinking about the relation between political time and judicial time. Political time identifies two g ...
- Lawfinding's Dilemma: Legal Formalism, or Judicial Neutrality Judges wield enormous power. What justifies their exercise of that power? A familiar view is that their legitimacy lies in finding, not making, law. Th ...
- Trump's Executions, Biden's Commutations, and Federalism† During his first term, President Trump executed thirteen federal prisoners. At the end of his own presidency, Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of thirty-s ...
- A Corporate Accountability Turn In International Climate Litigation† Corporations are among the most significant emitters of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, which are responsible for the existential threat of climate change. Yet ...
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.
- Why Language Models Hallucinate 🔥🔥🔥Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations"…
- Why Cannot Large Language Models Ever Make True Correct Reasoning?† 🔥Recently, with the application progress of AIGC tools based on large language models (LLMs), led by ChatGPT, many AI experts and more non-professionals are trumpeting the "reasoning ability" of the LL...
- Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models† 🔥Generalist robots that can perform a range of different tasks in open-world settings must be able to not only reason about the steps needed to accomplish their goals, but also process complex instruct...
- Language Models Are Capable of Metacognitive Monitoring and Control of Their Internal Activations† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) can sometimes report the strategies they actually use to solve tasks, but they can also fail to do so. This suggests some degree of metacognition -- the capacity to monito...
- Baba Is AI: Break the Rules to Beat the Benchmark ArXiv link for Baba Is AI: Break the Rules to Beat the Benchmark ...
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) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social)
- Shoaib M Khan (@shoaibmkhan.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (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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