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.
- Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay. 🔥🔥🔥
- The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All 🔥🔥While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.
- Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader 🔥Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month ...
- Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email 🔥Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010 ...
- Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell 🔥The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.
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.
- No Kings — Freedom (video) 🔥🔥🔥Why protest is patriotic ...
- Purge, Merge, and Surge 🔥🔥Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state ...
- MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit 🔥A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
- Freedom is Action: A Campaign for Ukraine 🔥A fundraiser for life-saving drone-jamming cars and trucks ...
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina: The $20 Billion Gift to Wall Street and Buenos Aires—Paid for by American Farmers 🔥No crying, just chuckling by Argentina as it laughs all the way to the bank, courtesy of Convicted Felon Donald Trump ...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 227 🔥… JD Vance lied repeatedly on Sunday shows with his trademark smug insufferability.
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.
- California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign† 🔥🔥🔥Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as ...
- It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde† 🔥🔥🔥His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde ...
- The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant† 🔥Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/10/2025 · 29m ...
- OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door† 🔥OpenAI reportedly wanted to find out if the advocates received funding from Elon Musk.
- Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me. 🔥Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.
- US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations 🔥A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.
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.
- The Crisis of Appropriations Law 🔥🔥Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principle ...
- The Right to Violence Scholars have long contended that the state has a monopoly on the use of violence. This monopoly is considered essential for the state to assure the safety and ...
- Constitutionalising Algorithmic Enforcement This chapter offers a clear, comparative map of algorithmic enforcement in the IP domain, with emphasis on copyright and trade marks online. In short, the ch ...
- Does the Irish Constitution Forbid a Vocal Presidency? Constitutional and political orthodoxy holds that the President of Ireland should be ‘above politics’ and must refrain from engaging in commentary that is parti ...
- Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning A View from German Criminal Law How may experimental jurisprudence contribute to legal questions or advance legal scholarship? This chapter provides a preliminary perspective from German crimi ...
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.
- The SPACE of AI: Real-World Lessons on AI's Impact on Developers† 🔥🔥🔥As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly embedded in software development workflows, questions persist about their true impact on developer productivity and experience. This paper pre...
- Super-intelligence or Superstition? Exploring Psychological Factors Underlying Unwarranted Belief in AI Predictions 🔥
- 2 OLMo 2 Furious† ArXiv link for 2 OLMo 2 Furious ...
- An Investigation of Robustness of LLMs in Mathematical Reasoning: Benchmarking with Mathematically-Equivalent Transformation of Advanced Mathematical Problems ArXiv link for An Investigation of Robustness of LLMs in Mathematical Reasoning: Benchmarking with Mathematically-Equivalent Transformation of Advanced Mathematical Problems ...
- How will advanced AI systems impact democracy? Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial intelligence may have on demo...
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)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Schwartz (@jswatz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social)
- Tormented🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.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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