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.
- Amy Sherald takes canceled Smithsonian show to Baltimore Museum of Art 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Amy Sherald had withdrawn her exhibition “American Sublime” from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing potential censorship of one of her works.
- Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind 🔥
- 5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you 🔥From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.
- Angela Rayner used family conveyancing firm to buy tax row flat Exclusive: Land Registry documents show deputy prime minister used high street company for £800,000 transaction ...
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.
- There’s a New Budget Showdown. Senate Dems’ Current Plan Is Bullshit 🔥🔥I agonized for a bit about the point I’m about to discuss....
- Garry Kasparov (@garrykasparov) 🔥🔥You usually only get one chance, and it’s a lot harder to remove a dictatorship than to prevent one. Trust me on that.
- NEWS: DOJ Employee Caught on Hot Mic Admitting They Will Redact Republican Names in Epstein Files 🔥🔥DOJ employee caught on hot mic admitting they will redact Republican names in Epstein files, RFK Jr. blasted by both Republicans and Democrats, Trump rescinds rule requiring airlines to pay you ...
- Trump keeps moving the U.S. closer to being the fascist war machine he wants 🔥Blowing up a boat on international waters and killing 11, extending federal troop presence in D.C. despite a new lawsuit, and an effort to rename the Defense Department.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 199. 9/4/25 🔥… RFK Jr had a heated and contentious hearing today while making his first appearance in front of Congress since firings and mass resignations at the CDC left the agency is shambles.
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.
- Authors, Publishers Await Answers as Anthropic Hearing Approaches 🔥🔥🔥🔥New information has emerged in the class action lawsuit against AI company Anthropic which could limit the number of books included in the case—days before the hearing in which the details of a settle...
- Chappell Roan and Timothée Chalamet chatbots sent risqué messages to teen accounts on top AI app† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Chatbot mimics of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes on the popular app Character.AI sent inappropriate messages to teen accounts, nonprofits found.
- Opinion | How to Rethink A.I.† 🔥
- Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters 🔥Hollywood’s battle with AI is heating up.
- Warner Bros. Discovery sues AI firm for Batman, Superman copyright infringement Warner Bros. Discovery joined Disney and Universal Pictures in its legal battle against Midjourney. Warner accused the AI firm of "blatantly and purposefully infringing [our] copyrighted works."
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 Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning† 🔥🔥We argue that exclusionary zoning—the imposition of restrictions on the amount and types of housing that property owners are allowed to build— is unconstitution ...
- 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 ...
- The Alien Enemies Act of 1798† For the first time since World War II-and the first time ever outside a formally declared war-an American president has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to detain ...
- 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 ...
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...
- The wall confronting large language models We show that the scaling laws which determine the performance of large language models (LLMs) severely limit their ability to improve the uncertainty of their predictions. As a result, raising their r...
- Benchmarking Optimizers for Large Language Model Pretraining† The recent development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been accompanied by an effervescence of novel ideas and methods to better optimize the loss of deep learning models. Claims from those method...
- What Would an LLM Do? Evaluating Policymaking Capabilities of Large Language Models Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted in high-stakes domains. Their capacity to process vast amounts of unstructured data, explore flexible scenarios, and handle a diversity of c...
- Psychologically Enhanced AI Agents We introduce MBTI-in-Thoughts, a framework for enhancing the effectiveness of Large Language Model (LLM) agents through psychologically grounded personality conditioning. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs T...
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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