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 Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King' 🔥🔥In a statement, the prince says:
- Reform's Dame Andrea Jenkyns considers scrapping English lessons 🔥🔥Dame Andrea Jenkyns says a £1m budget to teach foreign nationals "should be spent on everybody".
- German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds 🔥🔥Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers ...
- Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President 🔥🔥From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
- Ministers to explore reversing ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending UK match after PM’s criticism – politics live 🔥Fans of the Israeli football team will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns ...
- ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa 🔥Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
- Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Boat Attack 🔥
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.
- Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do 🔥🔥🔥Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.
- Signs of Freedom 🔥🔥At No Kings Rallies Tomorrow ...
- October 17, 2025 (Friday) On the morning of October 18, 1775, a small fleet of Royal Navy vessels opened fire on the seaport town that is now known as Portland, Maine.
- Trump Is Tormenting Ukraine The least the media can do is not help him ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 231. 10/17/25 … Meidas spoke to the organizers of No Kings who told us that the number of people signed up to attend the nationwide rallies tomorrow has doubled since Speaker Mike Johnson first called them “Hate Am...
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...
- Teen Sues Maker of Fake-Nude Software 🔥There is a growing concern over AI sites that generate fabricated naked photos of minors and nonconsenting adults.
- 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.
- 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.
- Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear Lawsuit accuses nudify apps of training on teen victims’ images.
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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Towards Agentic Self-Learning LLMs in Search Environment 🔥We study whether self-learning can scale LLM-based agents without relying on human-curated datasets or predefined rule-based rewards. Through controlled experiments in a search-agent setting, we ident...
- Just-In-Time Objectives: A General Approach for Specialized AI Interactions 🔥ArXiv link for Just-In-Time Objectives: A General Approach for Specialized AI Interactions ...
- Non-submodular Visual Attention for Robot Navigation This paper presents a task-oriented computational framework to enhance Visual-Inertial Navigation (VIN) in robots, addressing challenges such as limited time and energy resources. The framework strate...
- HUMOTO: A 4D Dataset of Mocap Human Object Interactions ArXiv link for HUMOTO: A 4D Dataset of Mocap Human Object Interactions ...
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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