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 the right spread ‘brutal and cruel’ misinformation after Minnesota lawmaker killings 🔥🔥🔥🔥The rightwing media ecosystem spins up narratives to serve their agendas after tragic events, regardless of accuracy ...
- Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps 🔥🔥🔥Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
- People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk 🔥🔥Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.
- BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 🔥🔥Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds ...
- Freed From U.S. Detention, South Korean Workers Return Home to Tearful Cheers 🔥
- Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts 🔥Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.
- Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. 🔥
- President-elect of Oxford Union to face disciplinary proceedings for Charlie Kirk remarks 🔥Union makes announcement alongside condemnation of racial abuse George Abaraonye suffered after ‘inappropriate remarks’ celebrating shooting ...
- Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting 🔥Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social media ...
- The Charlie Kirk shooting suspect went from a quiet upbringing to a murder charge 🔥The 22-year-old charged with killing the conservative activist could face the death penalty, if convicted.
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.
- Intel Drops Funding HBCU Legal Pipeline - Above the Law 🔥🔥🔥Surprise surprise.
- The worst takes from a bad week 🔥🔥The Free Press, about to take over CBS News, blames universities for American political violence ...
- September 13, 2025 President Donald J.
- Bonus 177: A Closer Look at Justice Kavanaugh's ICE Raids Opinion Walking through the only opinion written in support of Monday's Supreme Court stay in the ICE roving arrests case helps to highlight *how* the Court may be stacking the deck in Trump-related cases.
- Why Is This Democratic Senator Voting to Confirm a Trump Judicial Nominee? If you really think Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, the bar for affirmatively supporting one of his nominees has to be higher than “I don’t know, he seems fine.”
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.
- 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.
- A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law | TechCrunch 🔥SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. 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.
- 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.
- An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
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.
- 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 ...
- '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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Mutually Assured Deregulation We have convinced ourselves that the way to make AI safe is to make it unsafe. Since 2022, many policymakers worldwide have embraced the "Regulation Sacrif ...
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...
- Why Cannot Large Language Models Ever Make True Correct Reasoning? 🔥Recently, with the application progress of AIGC tools based on large language models (LLMs), led by ChatGPT, many AI experts and more non-professionals are trumpeting the "reasoning ability" of the LL...
- Baba Is AI: Break the Rules to Beat the Benchmark† ArXiv link for Baba Is AI: Break the Rules to Beat the Benchmark ...
- 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...
- Understanding Economic Tradeoffs Between Human and AI Agents in Bargaining Games ArXiv link for Understanding Economic Tradeoffs Between Human and AI Agents in Bargaining Games ...
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) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social)
- Shoaib M Khan (@shoaibmkhan.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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