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 | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match 🔥🔥
- Texas attorney general wants students to pray in school – unless they’re Muslim 🔥Ken Paxton, who is running for US Senate, is urging schools to say the Lord’s Prayer as a Republican law goes into effect ...
- U.S. Open Crowd Booed Trump Repeatedly 🔥The U.S. Open crowd booed Donald Trump when he arrived at the stadium and during the national anthem, which could be heard on the national telecast.
- How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart 🔥
- CBS Abruptly Changes Editing Rules After Attacks From Administration 🔥
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.
- Important Sunday Night Update: Lisa Phillips is a Survivor of Epstein's Crimes. This is her Story. 🔥🔥🔥Please watch her story, share her story, and continue uplifting the survivors.
- The Week Ahead 🔥September 7, 2025 ...
- Two cases, involving 20 people, show how dangerous the attack on trans people has gotten 🔥DOJ wants to send 19 trans women to men's prisons. South Carolina wants to keep one trans boy out of the boys' restroom. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Sunday Morning Wrap-Up . Do not look away.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 201 … Trump made another deranged post on Truth Social showing himself as the character in Apocalypse Now played by Robert Duvall with this caption: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.
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.
- What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild† Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
- 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.
- Disability and Constitutional Legitimacy 🔥Disability classifications can take one of two forms. The more familiar form targets people with disabilities on account of their disability, and harms them. Th ...
- Remembering Congress in the Myers-to-Humphrey's Interregnum† The Supreme Court’s push to vindicate the unitary executive has been shaped by a dominant narrative depicting Humphrey’s Executor v. United States<
- Climate Strains and the Safety Net As the climate crisis deepens, environmental pressures like extreme heat and worsening air quality are steadily degrading daily life in the Unit ...
- Corruption and the Supreme Court† Corruption is everywhere at the Supreme Court. The justices routinely rule on what is—and, more frequently, what is not—corrupt. Simultaneously, their off-the-b ...
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.
- Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI system...
- 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...
- Consumer Law for AI Agents† 🔥Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. Currently, the use of AI chatbots by consumers has largely been limited to image generation...
- 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...
- 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...
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)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org) (relegated)
- Dan Immergluck (@danimmergluck.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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