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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- D'Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51 🔥🔥D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all revered as modern classics, has died.
- Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain 🔥
- Portugal’s far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections 🔥Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections ...
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.
- Jack Smith Speaks 🔥🔥🔥You have choices about where you get your news and analysis.
- It's Giving Enron 🔥On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash ...
- October 14, 2025 🔥The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.
- The Two Section Twos The Protection Against Racial Gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Constitutional. Just Read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 229. 10/14/25 … Pete Hegseth received a stunning rebuke today from every media company that covers the Pentagon, including Fox and Newsmax, who all refused to sign the agreement to abide by his lengthy set of paran...
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.
- Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...
- What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer† 🔥🔥🔥A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
- SCOTUS Justice Alito Suggests He's Not Interested in Overturning Same-Sex Marriage. Is That True?† 🔥Obergefell v Hodges has been back in the spotlight with fears gay marriage could be removed as a national right.
- California just passed a new law requiring AI to tell you it’s AI† 🔥If you’re a chatbot you have to tell me.
- To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
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.
- Skrmetti's Shell Game 🔥🔥🔥In its landmark 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court held that discrimination against transgender employees constitutes discr ...
- A Conceptual Mapping on Intellectual Property Law and Sustainability The intellectual property (IP) legal scholarship is notoriously permeated by the evolving human and societal settings in which the discipline applies. The momen ...
- Algorithmic Ethics in an Era of Agentic AI Advocacy: An Analysis of AI's Impact on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Model Code of Judicial Conduct† Accepted for publication in Volume 16 of the St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics (forthcoming, 2026). The American legal profession s ...
- The Psychology of a Favor: Why Hidden Witness Payments Demand a New Brady Rule† Police and prosecutors regularly pay money to informants and other witnesses in criminal cases. These payments can be in the form of rewards, relocation expense ...
- Holistic Constitutional Interpretation This Article identifies and advocates for holistic constitutional interpretation, a method in which interpreters consider disputed constitutional terms ...
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.
- Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects 🔥🔥🔥🔥We examine the labor market effects of AI chatbots using two large-scale adoption surveys (late 2023 and 2024) covering 11 exposed occupations (25,000 workers,
- Two Types of AI Existential Risk: Decisive and Accumulative 🔥The conventional discourse on existential risks (x-risks) from AI typically focuses on abrupt, dire events caused by advanced AI systems, particularly those that might achieve or surpass human-level i...
- Foundation Models for Astrobiology: Paper I -- Workshop and Overview† 🔥Advances in machine learning over the past decade have resulted in a proliferation of algorithmic applications for encoding, characterizing, and acting on complex data that may contain many high dimen...
- An accessible pipeline for LLM-driven medical concept mapping, automated OMOP and FHIR conversion 🔥Background:Our previous work introduced the open-source EHR-QC pipeline. This pipeline implements extraction, transform and load (ETL), pre-processing and quali ...
- From Detection to Mitigation: Addressing Bias in Deep Learning Models for Chest X-Ray Diagnosis ArXiv link for From Detection to Mitigation: Addressing Bias in Deep Learning Models for Chest X-Ray Diagnosis ...
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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