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.
- Landslide Kills Hundreds in Sudan 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- At an ICE career expo, thousands line up to ‘defend the homeland’ 🔥🔥🔥An ex-Marine, a former professional MMA fighter, a retired officer: Meet the men angling to join ICE and carry out President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
- Section 502(f) Is Not a Blank Check 🔥🔥The statute provides the National Guard with more flexibility—but the use of unfederalized troops for operational missions has its limits.
- World’s oldest and biggest iceberg starts to break up and may disappear in weeks 🔥🔥‘Megbaurg’ known as A23a has rapidly disintegrated in warmer warmers and could disappear within weeks ...
- Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans 🔥
- In 2007, Peter Thiel told me media was dead. Now he’s trying to kill it. 🔥Revisiting an old interview.
- Opinion | I Fought in Gaza. Here Is Why I Would Not Go Back. 🔥
- Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington 🔥
- The Turmoil Inside MAHA Is About More Than Just Vaccines 🔥Disparate factions are sparring over some of RFK Jr.’s biggest priorities. A top FDA scientist is hired, ousted, then hired again.
- Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump’s Power Grab 🔥
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.
- Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power 🔥🔥*neighborhood in southeast Baltimore ...
- Can Federal Troops Be Stationed At The Polls In 2026? 🔥Today in California, in Governor Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit against Donald Trump, Judge Charles Breyer ruled against the administration.
- Trump's Endless Emergency Summer 🔥Convicted Felon Trump is the WORST Chicken Little...but Dangerous ...
- September 2, 2025 In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, the Trump administration attempted to take children out of government custody and ship them alone to their country o...
- The Posse Comitatus Act comes for Trump's authoritarianism Trump's efforts to go after U.S. cities — first Los Angeles and D.C., with, it appears, Chicago next — are alarming. A lot happened, as to all three cities, on Tuesday.
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.
- 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.
- From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life 🔥🔥🔥Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.
- OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit 🔥🔥Promised protections follow reports of vulnerable users misled in extended chats.
- ChatGPT to get parental controls after teen user’s death by suicide 🔥ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it will add parental controls that can detect “acute distress,” after a lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a teen’s death by suicide.
- How An AI Notetaker Became One Of The Few Profitable AI Startups 🔥Nathan Xu’s Plaud has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people.
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.
- Preempting Drug Price Reform 🔥🔥Over the past decade, a number of states have attempted to lower prescription drug costs. State efforts to regulate drug prices range from price gouging laws to ...
- Postcolonial Private Law 🔥 For decades, theorizing postcoloniality in law has remained captive to the framework of international law with a focus on distributive justice. This appr ...
- SHAPING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW FOR A PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY This Article begins from the premise that it is valuable and desirable for the judicial branch to promote active public participation in government, and from ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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...
- The Ideation-Execution Gap: Execution Outcomes of LLM-Generated versus Human Research Ideas Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in accelerating the scientific research pipeline. A key capability for this process is the ability to generate novel research ideas, and prior studies h...
- 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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