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.
- The rich register Ferraris and Porsches in Montana to avoid taxes. California is cracking down 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Luxury car buyers in California and other states wanting their fancy ride for less money are registering their vehicles in Montana, which has no sales or personal property tax.
- Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees. 🔥🔥🔥
- Pam Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit. But Trump Wanted Her Gone. 🔥🔥🔥
- No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In 🔥🔥
- Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk 🔥
- Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders 🔥A database of non-compliance with court orders around the country.
- Death of Rohingya refugee left in parking lot by US border agents ruled a homicide 🔥Nurul Amin Shah, 56, who was visually impaired, was left outside Buffalo Tim Hortons on cold night and later died ...
- Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 🔥An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC ...
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.
- So… what happens when the Attorney General gets fired 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Florida Bar said it couldn’t act while Pam Bondi held federal power. That excuse ended today.
- Appealing Liam Ramos 🔥DOJ filed a notice of appeal on Wednesday, signaling that it will try to undo a federal judge’s order that requires the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos, whose photo put a human face on Trump’s mass d...
- April 3, 2026 🔥On April 4, 1949, representatives from twelve countries in Europe and North America—Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom,...
- BREAKING: America has Worst Day of War as Iran Shoots Down Multiple Planes and Rejects Ceasefire, Trump Seeks to Turn America Into War-Time Economy Good evening everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 342. 4/3/26 … NYT: “Iran shot down a US fighter jet over the country, the first time that has occurred in 5 weeks of war, but a rescue effort succeeded in recovering one of its two crew members from Iranian soil.
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 Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Developer issues copyright takedown request in bid to prevent competitors from cloning coding tool’s features ...
- Penalties stack up as AI spreads through the legal system 🔥🔥Early scandals have not slowed lawyers' adoption of AI tools, even as court sanctions over fake legal briefs continue to rise.
- Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok 🔥🔥Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
- Philadelphia courts ban all smart/AI eyeglasses, violators could face arrest 🔥Starting Monday, March 30, 2026, those who bring eyeglasses equipped with video/audio recording capability to court could face arrest, officials say.
- Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse† Sam Altman's sister amended her civil lawsuit accusing the OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, after the judge said she could try pursuing her case under Missouri's child sexual abuse statute.
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.
- The Hopeless Case For Birthright Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment Did Not Touch the Status of the Children of Illegal Aliens and Temporary Visitors to the United States† 🔥🔥🔥 The conventional wisdom in the courts and the academy is that the children of illegal aliens or temporary visitors ...
- Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara: An Originalist Defense of Birthright Citizenship† For nearly all of the first 235 years under the Constitution, the citizenship of every child born in the United States to alien parents, with immaterial exce ...
- Hallucinated Legal Presentations in Civil Trial Courts† Increasingly hallucinated legal presentations are being discovered and sanctioned in U.S. federal and state civil trial courts. Such presentations encompa ...
- Separation of Copyright Powers† The United States Copyright Office’s multifarious roles in the U.S. copyright system have long prompted uncertainty about its position among the branches of the ...
- Universities, Free Speech, and Tyranny The Trump Administration has relentlessly attacked freedom of speech. The First Amendment rights of university students, faculty, and staff have been especially ...
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.
- The Illusion of Understanding: How Middle-Schoolers Fail to Regulate Inquiry with ChatGPT in a Science Task† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative AI (GenAI) tools allow for effortless task completion, potentially fostering cognitive and metacognitive laziness in students. While surveys indicate widespread GenAI use among students as ...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† 🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models† 🔥Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignment strategies via RLHF, system prompts, ...
- Bioinspired123D: Generative 3D Modeling System for Bioinspired Structures† 🔥ArXiv link for Bioinspired123D: Generative 3D Modeling System for Bioinspired Structures ...
- Generative AI in Action: Field Experimental Evidence from Alibaba's Customer Service Operations ArXiv link for Generative AI in Action: Field Experimental Evidence from Alibaba's Customer Service Operations ...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.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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