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.
- JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
- Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say 🔥🔥🔥
- A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault 🔥🔥
- Venezuelan fishermen in fear after US strikes on boats in the Caribbean 🔥At least 27 people have been killed in US strikes on alleged "narco-boats" in the Caribbean.
- Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows (Published 2024) 🔥
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.
- So You've Decided to Target Random People with Military Force 🔥🔥🔥Here's why it's illegal.
- Jack Smith’s Quiet Integrity—and the DOJ’s Loud Collapse 🔥Jack Smith breaks his silence just as Trump’s DOJ turns the law into a weapon.
- Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors 🔥One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666 ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 230. 10/16/25 … Republicans continue to melt down over No Kings. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Fox: “Follow the money.
- Shutdown likely to extend into next week Most reporters out as Pentagon confiscates press badges ...
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.
- ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras 🔥🔥🔥🔥Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevit...
- 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...
- Andreessen Horowitz spends $1.49 million in federal lobbying Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) ramps up federal lobbying to $1.49M in 2025, outspending rivals as it pushes influence on AI, defense, and regulation.
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.
- 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 ...
- Equal Justice & Generative AI 🔥🔥 The United States has long suffered from unequal access to justice, with countless low-and middle-income Americans forced to navigate the legal system al ...
- Every True Story Ends in Death: How the Roberts Court Killed Originalism Although there are at least six justices on the Roberts Court who identify as strong or moderate originalists, none of them exercise judicial review in an origi ...
- 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 ...
- Measured Failures of robots.txt: Legal and Empirical Insights for Regulating Robots Artificial intelligence (AI) is like a bus that society has been trying to get moving since the early 1950s. Billions of dollars, decades of time, and countless ...
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...
- Equal Justice & Generative AI 🔥🔥 The United States has long suffered from unequal access to justice, with countless low-and middle-income Americans forced to navigate the legal system al ...
- 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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