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.
- Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way 🔥
- U.K. Ambassador to U.S., Peter Mandelson, Forced Out Over Epstein Links 🔥
- Scrutiny Mounts of F.B.I. Under Patel as Kirk’s Killer Remains at Large
- Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.
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.
- Investigation in Progress 🔥🔥On the morning of January 29, 1998, I was getting ready for work when I heard an explosion.
- On this September 11, Trump's troops remain in Washington, D.C. 🔥It's been more than a month now since President Donald Trump unleashed soldiers on the nation's capital. A lawsuit challenging their presence is moving forward, slowly.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 204. 9/11/25 🔥… Right-wing politicians, media and influencers continue to fan the flames against “the Left” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
- Majority on Brazil Supreme Court panel convicts Bolsonaro 🔥Most of the five members on the Supreme Court panel vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro.
- September 11, 2025 🔥Twenty-four years ago today, terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in N...
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.
- Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
- WSJ Epstein Letter ‘Polar Opposite’ Of Trump’s Writing Style: 3 Forensic Analyses Reach Same Verdict† 🔥🔥A forensic linguistic analysis conducted by three leading AI research systems unanimously concluded there was an “extremely low probability” that a 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that include...
- If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector† 🔥There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the…
- Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (2)† 🔥The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors...
- Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors” Feeling “misled,” judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic’s proposed settlement.
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.
- Editing Legal Scholarship† 🔥🔥Legal scholars love to complain about the law review publishing process. Many of them overreact to the existence of student editors and the occasional rou ...
- POLICE PROSECUTION OUTCOMES† 🔥When it comes to prosecutions of police officers for homicide-related offenses, opinions are plentiful but data is scarce. Many believe that officers are too ...
- Back to the Future: Tort’s Capacity to Remedy Historic Human Rights Abuses A recent cluster of tort actions have challenged historic abuses of power by officials and soldiers engaged in late-colonial counter-insurgency operations. The ...
- The Apex Court’s Dilemma: Rulemaking Alignment Under Hierarchical and Political Constraints Under what conditions do apex courts align with lower courts in constructing legal rules? Many theories have modeled how judicial hierarchies influence apex court rulemaking and how these courts adapt...
- Civil Reconciliation Tort Theory: Making Torts Private Again This article is largely a reaction to civil recourse tort theory and an attempt to recapture a tort theory that is more thoroughly private. The competing civil ...
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.
- Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments ...
- A Fragile Number Sense: Probing the Elemental Limits of Numerical Reasoning in LLMs† ArXiv link for A Fragile Number Sense: Probing the Elemental Limits of Numerical Reasoning in LLMs ...
- Segment Transformer: AI-Generated Music Detection via Music Structural Analysis Yumin Kim, Seonghyeon Go ...
- Linearly Controlled Language Generation with Performative Guarantees ArXiv link for Linearly Controlled Language Generation with Performative Guarantees ...
- Bridging the Sim2Real Gap: Vision Encoder Pre-Training for Visuomotor Policy Transfer ArXiv link for Bridging the Sim2Real Gap: Vision Encoder Pre-Training for Visuomotor Policy Transfer ...
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)
- Stand With Chicago Hat (@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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