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.
- Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared to compete after sex eligibility review 🔥🔥🔥🔥Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to return to international competition after World Boxing completed a review of her sex-eligibility status, opening the door for her to fight at the Asia...
- Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email, publish excerpts online 🔥Iran-linked hackers on Friday claimed they had accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet.
- Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’ 🔥Washington Post journalists who called the White House switchboard using Google Pixel Android phones saw “Epstein Island” on their screens Thursday.
- Police find no evidence of criminality in Gorton and Denton byelection Reform UK had asked officers to investigate claims of ‘family voting’ after losing contest in Greater Manchester ...
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 Grifter's War 🔥🔥Jared Kushner is egregiously exploiting American lives to further enrich himself ...
- NEWS: Major Epstein Updates, Iranian Hackers Hack FBI Director's Personal Email, Trump Caves on TSA Funding and Senate Votes to Reopen Most of DHS 🔥🔥We have major developments this morning you need to be aware of.
- Kentucky Bill Declaring Trans People Mentally Ill and Banning Trans Teachers Set to Pass Largely Unopposed 🔥Mirroring the anti-gay movement of the 1970s, Kentucky Republicans are quietly moving to ban trans people from teaching while forcing doctors to consider being trans a mental disorder.
- March 27, 2026 🔥The ongoing battle over funding Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at U.S.
- The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.
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.
- Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-Generated Sexual Abuse Content† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.
- Judge blocks Pentagon order branding Anthropic a national security risk† 🔥Anthropic argued that the Trump administration was punishing it for speaking about the risks of its AI technology amid a bitter dispute with the Pentagon.
- Meta Shares Finally Falter After Court Losses, AI Delays And Metaverse’s Decline† 🔥Back-to-back landmark court losses pushed further losses for the Facebook parent’s stock.
- Two More Giant Ls for Trump 🔥In Iran, in the Senate, and in court, the losses are piling up.
- Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration's Anthropic ban 🔥The order briefly stops the government from labeling tech company Anthropic a "supply chain risk," calling that "classic First Amendment retaliation."
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.
- 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 alignme ...
- Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner Violence† 🔥This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat ...
- Fourth Amendment Anti-Theory† Orin Kerr is America’s leading Fourth Amendment scholar. Yet despite his enormous influence and his nearly twenty-five years of being a law prof ...
- The Non-Delegable Duty to Think: Judicial Legitimacy and the Limits of Generative AI† From a normative perspective, the use of generative AI to automate the justification of judgments is problematic on several levels. A legal opinion is ...
- REAL-TIME CRIME CENTERS AND THE BRADY PUZZLE Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCCs) offer a paradigm shift for policing. Police departments can obtain actionable intelligence immediately after a crime is ...
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 Non-Delegable Duty to Think: Judicial Legitimacy and the Limits of Generative AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥From a normative perspective, the use of generative AI to automate the justification of judgments is problematic on several levels. A legal opinion is ...
- Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs† 🔥🔥As large language models (LLMs) have proliferated, disturbing anecdotal reports of negative psychological effects, such as delusions, self-harm, and ``AI psychosis,'' have emerged in global media and…
- Preserving Balance in the EU Digital Single Market: How Like Company Could Reframe Copyright and Innovation in the Generative AI Era† 🔥This article analyses the Court of Justice of the European Union's first referral on generative AI and copyright, i.e. Case C-250/25 Like Company v. Google, whi ...
- Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage 🔥Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded in society, there has been limited empirical study of how their usage affects human empowerment. We present the first large-scale empirical analysis of d...
- Barefoot’s Broken Bargain: Why Algorithmic Predictions of Future Dangerousness Cannot Satisfy the Eighth Amendment On November 9, 2023, Texas executed Brent Brewer after a jury concluded that he would pose a continuing threat to society. That determination rested in part ...
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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