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.
- Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says 🔥🔥🔥🔥The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
- U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say 🔥🔥
- Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation
- Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington
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.
- Forgetting the Survivors 🔥🔥🔥Everyone but the survivors—the people who deserve it the most—seems to be the focus of the renewed interest in Jeffrey Epstein.
- This weekend in Trump's effort to make fascism happen 🔥The Trump administration tried to illegally send children to Guatemala as troops walked aimlessly around Dupont Circle. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- September 1, 2025 🔥I hope everyone had a happy and relaxing Labor Day.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 197. 9/1/25 … Today was Day 6 of a frail and pale looking Trump hiding from the media and not speaking in public.
- NEWS: No Public Events for Trump on Labor Day and India Protests the Trump Administration No public events for Trump on Labor Day, Indians protest the Trump Administration by burning Trump effigies, Trump requests voter data ahead of the 2026 elections, and ICE surges set to start ...
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.
- Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population† 🔥🔥🔥🔥President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
- Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works This AI hype cycle has dramatically distorted society's views of what's possible with image upscalers.
- Inside the Lobbying Blitz Over Colorado's AI Law | TechPolicy.Press† Cristiano Lima-Strong spoke to the Colorado Sun's Jesse Paul and Taylor Dolven following a special session that saw wrangling over the future of the law.
- Gig Workers United: Reimagining Global Justice in the Era of AI | TechPolicy.Press Platform workers from 28 countries meet in Geneva to ensure their voices are heard as the ILO discusses global labor standards for gig work.
- Helping people when they need it most How we think about safety for users experiencing mental or emotional distress, the limits of today’s systems, and the work underway to refine them.
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.
- Exercising Common Sense, Exorcising Langdell: The Inseparability of Legal Theory, Practice and the Humanities Maintaining that theory without practice is empty and practice without theory is blind, this article explores the impossibility of meaningfully separating legal ...
- Tariffs as Taxes: A Framework for Understanding Delegation of the Taxing Power† While perhaps not obvious to the casual observer, tariffs are taxes, and, as such, they fall within the Constitution’s Article I enumerated powers, raisi ...
- The Constitution and the War on DEI This Article examines how the second Trump Administration's aggressive attacks on programs, policies, and speech loosely associated with diversity, equity, and ...
- The Supreme Court in Bondage: Constitutional Stare Decisis, Legal Formalism, and the Future of Unenumerated Rights† This essay advances a formalist conception of constitutional stare decisis. I shall argue that instrumentalist accounts of precedent are inherently unsatisfyin ...
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...
- Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests Do artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on human language submit to the same principles of persuasion as humans? We tested whether 7 establis ...
- Challenges and Paths Towards AI for Software Engineering AI for software engineering has made remarkable progress recently, becoming a notable success within generative AI. Despite this, there are still many challenges that need to be addressed before autom...
- Debiasing Machine Learning Predictions for Causal Inference Without Additional Ground Truth Data: "One Map, Many Trials" in Satellite-Driven Poverty Analysis Machine learning models trained on Earth observation data, such as satellite imagery, have demonstrated significant promise in predicting household-level wealth indices, enabling the creation of high-...
- SYNBUILD-3D: A large, multi-modal, and semantically rich synthetic dataset of 3D building models at Level of Detail 4 ArXiv link for SYNBUILD-3D: A large, multi-modal, and semantically rich synthetic dataset of 3D building models at Level of Detail 4 ...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social)
- Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Immergluck (@danimmergluck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dburbach.bsky.social (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.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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