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.
- How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia 🔥🔥🔥🔥South Korea said it had expressed concerns to the U.S. about the raid and that it was trying to secure the release of its citizens.
- South Koreans Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai E.V. Plant in Georgia 🔥🔥
- Trump Is Bringing Back the War Department: What to Know 🔥
- Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 🔥The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
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.
- Urgent: Virginia Giuffre’s Family Speaks Out on Epstein Files. Share Her Story. 🔥🔥This afternoon, I spoke with the family of Virginia Giuffre. Share her story.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 200. 9/5/25 🔥🔥… The jobs report for August was dreadful.
- NEWS: Trump Sent Seal Team Into North Korea in a Disastrous Mission that Left Civilians Dead 🔥Trump sent a seal team into North Korea in a disastrous mission leaving civilians dead, Trump says the DOJ has "done its job" related to Epstein, largest ever ICE raid at a Hyundai factory, and more ...
- September 5, 2025 🔥Today President Donald J.
- Holding vigil in "a post-USA America" as Trump orders the vigil gone 🔥Philipos Melaku-Bello tells Law Dork that if the tent is taken out of the park, "then lawyers will get involved, and we'll do what we can to get it back."
- Introducing “The Refounding” from the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy 🔥Far too many Americans still do not know about the promise and potential power of the 14th Amendment, or its role in transforming America ...
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.
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors 🔥🔥The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.
- Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material 🔥Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
- 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...
- AI firm Anthropic reaches landmark $1.5B copyright deal with book authors The company behind the chatbot Claude avoided trial over claims it improperly downloaded millions of books.
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.
- What Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State Constitutions 🔥🔥State constitutional law has always been an essential component of federalism and a key to understanding the fabric of American law. It is even more important t ...
- 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 ...
- What the Realists Got Right For the past several decades, realists and formalists have been deeply at odds. They have, however, mostly been talking past one another, with each side trad ...
- 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 ...
- The Patent Governance of Agricultural Genome Editing: A Workshop Report This report explores the complexities of patent governance in the context of new genomic techniques (NGTs) and, in particular, the implications for U ...
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...
- Detecting LLM-Generated Peer Reviews The integrity of peer review is fundamental to scientific progress, but the rise of large language models (LLMs) has introduced concerns that some reviewers may rely on these tools to generate...
- 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...
- Hallucination to Consensus: Multi-Agent LLMs for End-to-End Test Generation with Accurate Oracles Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is laborious, especially for strong typed languages like Java, motivating the need for automat...
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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