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.
- Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Resigns in the Face of Mass Protests 🔥
- ‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populists ...
- Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies The US is also listed as a threat due to its interest in Greenland, which the Trump administration has claimed is vital to America’s national security ...
- Opinion | Trump Isn’t Interested in Fighting a New Cold War. He Wants a New Civilizational War.
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.
- Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
- A 21-Gun Salute to Admiral Alvin Holsey His principled resignation reminds us of the good in government ...
- Major Epstein Files Update and Release We have a critical update about the Epstein files, including new photos showing a closer relationship between Trump and Epstein.
- Breaking: D.C. Circuit's Trump appointees again block Judge Boasberg's contempt inquiry DOJ keeps going to the D.C. Circuit, where Trump appointees on the court have repeatedly stopped the district court's effort to hold the Trump admin accountable.
- An Open Letter from Former Civil Rights Division Employees On the 68th anniversary of the Civil Rights Division, former employees share an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.
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.
- Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
- ChatGPT spurred a 56-year-old man to kill his mother, lawsuit says† 🔥A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
- Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill - The American Prospect† 🔥A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.
- Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws† 🔥The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
- a blurry picture of a police officer with a badge on his chest† 🔥Alt: a blurry picture of a police officer, Al Powell from Diehard, with a badge on his chest ...
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.
- A New Satanic Panic 🔥🔥A broad backlash to LGBTQ visibility and equality has emerged in recent years. Its conservative proponents have asserted that queer people are Satanic, calle ...
- Law School is for Boring, Ugly, Serious People NLG Seattle University Chapter held DisOrientation on February 12, 2025. This is the speech I gave."Law school is designed to make you a bad a ...
- Five Urban Futures for a Hot Planet: U.S. Legal Scenarios† If current climate change trends continue, flooding, extreme heat and wildfires will make the homes of millions or tens of millions of people in the United Stat ...
- The Interstitial Executive: A View from the Founding† The Supreme Court appears poised to recognize a unitary executive President with power to override statutory removal restrictions for almost all principal offic ...
- The Effects of Sports Betting Legalization on Consumer Behavior, State Finances, and Public Health The legalization of sports betting has increased gambling participation significantly across the U.S., raising important questions about its costs an ...
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.
- Do LLMs Truly Understand When a Precedent Is Overruled? 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows show promise for complex legal reasoning tasks, yet their ability to understand long legal documents remains insufficiently evaluated. Develo...
- If generative AI is the answer, what is the question? 🔥🔥Beginning with text and images, generative AI has expanded to audio, video, computer code, and molecules. Yet, if generative AI is the answer, what is the question? We explore the foundations of gener...
- A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI† With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help ...
- Comparing AI Agents to Cybersecurity Professionals in Real-World Penetration Testing† ArXiv link for Comparing AI Agents to Cybersecurity Professionals in Real-World Penetration Testing ...
- Confucius Code Agent: An Open-sourced AI Software Engineer at Industrial Scale ArXiv link for Confucius Code Agent: An Open-sourced AI Software Engineer at Industrial Scale ...
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)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.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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