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.
- Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans 🔥🔥
- Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment 🔥🔥
- Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups 🔥🔥The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.
- Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People 🔥The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.
- Argentine Bonds Jump on News US Lining Up $40 Billion in Aid 🔥Argentina’s sovereign bonds jumped Wednesday after media outlets reported that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined financial aid that would total $40 billion to Javier Milei’s government, dou...
- US Capitol police investigating flag with swastika in Republican representative’s office – report 🔥Authorities reportedly looking into modified flag displayed on cubicle wall of House member Dave Taylor’s staff ...
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.
- The Shutdown Shitshow 🔥🔥As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost ...
- 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 ...
- October 15, 2025 🔥Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Louisiana v.
- NEWS: JD Vance Defends Racist ‘Hitler Chats’ and Swastika Discovered in Republican Member's Office 🔥Vance defended Young Republicans caught sharing pro-Hitler messages, Swastika discovered in Republican member's office, Trump doesn't want Stephen Miller sharing his real views, and more ...
- Supreme Court likely to further diminish — but not end — Voting Rights Act cases 🔥A majority of the justices didn't appear willing to hold that all "race-based redistricting" is unconstitutional, as Louisiana wanted. But how they'll get there was unclear.
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...
- 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.
- ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck 🔥As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
- What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial
- Will US AI regulation follow the same path as data privacy? Just like privacy, the battle rages in individual states, with little hope for federal 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.
- 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 ...
- Constitutional Practice in Local Government: Growing Constitutional Culture When Acting Locally 🔥This paper explores the concept of constitutional propriety in local government, including whether constitutional conventions might be able to be extended to th ...
- 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 ...
- AustLII – 30 Years of Free Access to Law 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). AustLII has revolutionised access to law in Australia ...
- Firearms in Sensitive Places and the Military Appropriations Crisis of 1879 In the wake of Bruen and Rahimi, one of the most contentious issues of Second Amendment litigation is the constitutionalit ...
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,
- Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples 🔥🔥Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversar...
- To model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhuman 🔥🔥When people listen to or read a sentence, they actively make predictions about upcoming words: words that are less predictable are generally read more slowly than predictable ones. The success of larg...
- 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...
- 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 ...
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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