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.
- Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
- UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move 🔥🔥Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
- No prospect of UK rejoining EU in my lifetime, says Starmer’s reset negotiator 🔥🔥Comments by Nick Thomas-Symonds underline view in top government circles despite thaw in relations with Brussels ...
- Lutnick says Musk was ‘backward’ in cutting government 🔥🔥The commerce secretary said the billionaire’s efforts focused too much on reducing the workforce rather than targeting waste.
- Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil 🔥
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.
- Undaunted from the Bench 🔥🔥Sotomayor pulls back the curtain on MAGA Supreme Court hackery ...
- NEWS: Grandma Says Kirk Shooter's Family is MAGA and Colorado Shooter Radicalized by White Supremacy 🔥Kirk shooter's grandmother says the family is proudly MAGA, Colorado shooter radicalized by white supremacy, Republican tells Trump to tone down rhetoric, and much more.
- Trump on Trials: How Our Legal System Shouldn't Work 🔥Today, after Donald Trump announced it on Fox and Friends, law enforcement told the public it had apprehended a suspect who turned in after confessing to the murder of Charlie Kirk to his father, a fo...
- Investigation in Progress 🔥On the morning of January 29, 1998, I was getting ready for work when I heard an explosion.
- September 12, 2025 🔥Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...
- The Next Terrorist Attack 🔥And What Comes After ...
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.
- A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law | TechCrunch 🔥🔥🔥🔥If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.
- Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue AI search company Perplexity 🔥🔥🔥Merriam-Webster defines plagiarize (verb) as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words or another) as one’s own.”
- I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now 🔥🔥🔥Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement for authors whose books were used to train its AI model. As an author who fits that description, I’ve come around to the idea.
- AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts 🔥Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU...
- How Did Ex-OpenAI Employee Suchir Balaji Die? What To Know After Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk Revive Murder Conspiracy Theory Tucker Carlson questioned OpenAI chief Sam Altman about Balaji’s death, disputing it was a suicide as Altman and law enforcement believe.
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 ...
- 'Terrorists Are Always Muslim But Never White': At the Intersection of Critical Race Theory and Propaganda 🔥🔥When you hear the word “terrorist,” who do you picture? Chances are, it was not a white person. In the United States, two common though false narratives about t ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- The Amended Statute We live in a republic of amended statutes. In each Congress, our laws are amended tens of thousands of times. Individual statutes make amendments that number in ...
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.
- Decentralising LLM Alignment: A Case for Context, Pluralism, and Participation 🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) alignment methods have been credited with the commercial success of products like ChatGPT, given their role in steering LLMs towards user-friendly outputs. However, curren...
- SpikingBrain Technical Report: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models Mainstream Transformer-based large language models face major efficiency bottlenecks: training computation scales quadratically with sequence length, and inference memory grows linearly, limiting long...
- Baba Is AI: Break the Rules to Beat the Benchmark ArXiv link for Baba Is AI: Break the Rules to Beat the Benchmark ...
- Linearly Controlled Language Generation with Performative Guarantees† ArXiv link for Linearly Controlled Language Generation with Performative Guarantees ...
- Segment Transformer: AI-Generated Music Detection via Music Structural Analysis† Yumin Kim, Seonghyeon Go ...
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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