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.
- Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.
- How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System 🔥
- Wrestling Over Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Divide in America 🔥
- Opinion | William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize Charlie Kirk as a kindred spirit 🔥Kirk was killed at the start of what was to have been a Buckley-like college tour.
- Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
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.
- September 14, 2025 🔥🔥🔥At 10:22 on the morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a bomb ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Sunday Morning Wrap-Up 🔥. This was a week punctuated by the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which seemed to sweep all the other news we’d been following off the table.
- The President Should Not Have a License to Kill 🔥Free societies do not replace civilian criminal law with killing simply because killing is easier for the government. Once we consider the victims’ supposed crimes, we can see that the government comm...
- 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 ...
- The Week Ahead September 14, 2025 ...
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.
- 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…
- 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.
- Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries | TechCrunch 🔥🔥Penske's lawsuit accuses Google of abusing its monopoly power in search to force publishers to support AI summaries.
- 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.
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.
- '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 ...
- Judicial Time: A Research Note 🔥This Research Note is an effort to lay out some ways of thinking about the relation between political time and judicial time. Political time identifies two g ...
- Economic Inequality and the Separation of the Economic and the Political in Modern Constitutionalism This essay examines the relationship between constitutionalism and economic inequality from the lens of the critique of political economy. In pa ...
- Trump's Executions, Biden's Commutations, and Federalism During his first term, President Trump executed thirteen federal prisoners. At the end of his own presidency, Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of thirty-s ...
- A Corporate Accountability Turn In International Climate Litigation Corporations are among the most significant emitters of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, which are responsible for the existential threat of climate change. Yet ...
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...
- Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models 🔥Generalist robots that can perform a range of different tasks in open-world settings must be able to not only reason about the steps needed to accomplish their goals, but also process complex instruct...
- 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...
- Language Models Are Capable of Metacognitive Monitoring and Control of Their Internal Activations Large language models (LLMs) can sometimes report the strategies they actually use to solve tasks, but they can also fail to do so. This suggests some degree of metacognition -- the capacity to monito...
- 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...
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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