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 Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application 🔥🔥
- Goodbye to All That† My resignation from the FBI.
- Elon Musk Lost to Trump. He Can’t Get Over It. Why can’t the entrepreneur stop himself from making things worse with the White House?
- This Fourth of July, the world declares its independence from America | Stephen Marche America is turning away from itself, and the rest of the world must follow ...
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.
- On Tyranny free resources 🔥🔥To use and to share, now or any time ...
- A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny 🔥🔥Effective July 4, 2025 ...
- Judge transfers new case challenging South Sudan deportations 🔥An administrative stay issued Friday morning will last until 4:30 p.m. Further action would have to come from Massachusetts. Read the new claims at Law Dork.
- Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal ...
- July 4, 2025 An American flag in the rigging of “Old Ironsides,” the U.S.S.
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.
- The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥Silicon Valley wins big in the accelerated authoritarianism of Trump's beautiful bill ...
- Musk's xAI scores permit for gas-burning turbines to power Grok supercomputer in Memphis 🔥🔥🔥Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup attained an official permit to power its Memphis supercomputer facility using natural gas-burning turbines.
- Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press 🔥🔥🔥To advance the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, the Republican budget bill is set to fund a major expansion of federal surveillance.
- AI Law Tracker 🔥
- James Carville Is Right to Panic — Because Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob 🔥Forget Jan 6th. Trump’s next move is smarter, and far more dangerous: use the courts, AI & right-wing militias to erase millions of Americans from the vote — legally. It’s not a theory. It’s a plan.
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.
- Introduction to Intellectual Property Law† 🔥🔥This one-day teaching module provides an introduction to U.S. intellectual property law, including trade secrets, utility patents, design patents, copyrights, a ...
- Executive Summary: Administrative Decision-Making in Patent Proceedings: Expert Testimony Effectiveness and Institutional Patterns† 🔥 When Google challenged Singular Computing's Low Precision High Dynamic Range patents across six Inter Partes Review proceedings, the lit ...
- Democracy and the Intersection of Prisons, Racism, and Capital† Rutgers University History Professor David Oshinsky's book entitled "'Worse Than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice" provides ...
- Defining 'Woman': Biological Sex and Gender† The current debate about the meaning of the term “woman” has become a proxy for the culture wars over the rights of sexual and gender minorities, with social co ...
- Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets This paper argues that blockchain technology solves a problem the traditional securities markets still haven't fixed: the lack of a more direct, efficient, and ...
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.
- 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...
- Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following ArXiv link for Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following ...
- LeanConjecturer: Automatic Generation of Mathematical Conjectures for Theorem Proving We introduce LeanConjecturer, a pipeline for automatically generating university-level mathematical conjectures in Lean 4 using Large Language Models (LLMs). Our hybrid approach combines rule-based co...
- Cats Confuse Reasoning LLM: Query Agnostic Adversarial Triggers for Reasoning Models We investigate the robustness of reasoning models trained for step-by-step problem solving by introducing query-agnostic adversarial triggers - short, irrelevant text that, when appended to math probl...
- LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users ArXiv link for LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users ...
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)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Siva (@sivav.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Popehat’s Interests First (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.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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