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.
- Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Resistance Is Cringe 🔥🔥🔥But it’s also effective.
- Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country 🔥🔥
- Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day 🔥Outside of typical remarks from Donald Trump, JD Vance and Mike Johnson and a Fox News report, party stayed mum ...
- Met Police to look into claims Prince Andrew sought information on accuser 🔥Media reports say he asked his police protection to find out personal details about Virginia Giuffre.
- Chamber of Commerce sues Trump to block $100,000 fee for H-1B visas 🔥The powerful business group said a new $100,000 fee is “plainly unlawful” and will hurt American businesses.
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.
- October 18, 2025 🔥🔥🔥🔥Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...
- Why We Protest 🔥No Kings — Freedom ...
- BREAKING: No Kings Day Breaks Records in D.C. and Across America I just got back from the D.C. protest, and organizers tell me that it was record breaking ...
- NEWS: No Kings Day Protests Begin as RSVPs Double in Response to Republican Backlash No Kings Day protests have begun in London, RSVPs double due to Republican backlash, Military plans live fire drills over California interstate, SNAP benefits set to expire next month, and more.
- Top 40 No Kings Signs, #31-40 Countdown of the best protest signs from Oct. 18 ...
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.
- The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools 🔥🔥🔥From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing material ...
- 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.
- Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear† 🔥Lawsuit accuses nudify apps of training on teen victims’ images.
- Olivia Williams says actors need ‘nudity rider’-type controls for AI body scans 🔥Dune star says performers are regularly pressed to have bodies scanned on set with few rights over how data is used ...
- EFF, unions sue Trump administration over alleged mass social media surveillance of legal residents | TechCrunch 🔥The lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges the Trump administration is monitoring and punishing non-citizens who express social media views that the government disfavors.
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 ...
- 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.
- Every Language Model Has a Forgery-Resistant Signature 🔥🔥The ubiquity of closed-weight language models with public-facing APIs has generated interest in forensic methods, both for extracting hidden model details (e.g., parameters) and for identifying models...
- 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...
- Programmatic Representation Learning with Language Models 🔥ArXiv link for Programmatic Representation Learning with Language Models ...
- From Extraction to Inference: Comparing Rule-Based, Machine Learning, and LLM Approaches for Classifying Social Outcomes in Legal Text 🔥Legal texts encode key social outcomes, but their unstructured format, domain-specific language, and culturally embedded cues make them difficult to an ...
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)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Beau Baumann 🍏 (@beaubaumann.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Dan Farbman (@danfarbman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bush-Joseph (@kathleenbush.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 (@angryblacklady.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Tormented🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Schwartz (@jswatz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.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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