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.
- Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- “Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” 🔥My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
- White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom 🔥The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
- Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
- Rachel Reeves says Brexit deal caused long-term damage to economy Rachel Reeves made the comments about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.
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.
- Comey Moves To Dismiss 🔥🔥🔥You have choices about where you get your news and analysis.
- The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out. 🔥🔥Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 232. 10/20/24 🔥… Trump began the physical destruction of the East Wing of the White House today to make room for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom monstrosity.
- October 20, 2025 🔥Over the weekend, as millions of Americans attended “No Kings” protests, President Donald J.
- NEWS: Trump Mocks No Kings Day as "Small" Despite Record Breaking Attendance Trump mocks No Kings Day as "small" and "ineffective," massive internet outage as AWS goes down, DHS spends $172 million on private jets for Noem, and Marines launch investigation into artillery shell ...
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.
- After Massive No Kings Protests, Trump Insults Americans and Asserts ‘Unquestioned Power’ to Deploy Troops Domestically 🔥🔥🔥🔥Read more here.
- These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk has caught company critics in the crossfire.
- Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch† Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
- OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
- Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist "What if I could create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial as if it were physically created by hand? Not actually, of course."
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.
- "Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving 🔥🔥Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as th ...
- Rethinking Nature's Rights† The emergence of constitutional provisions, legislative initiatives, and judicial decisions recognizing natural entities such as rivers, forests, and parks as s ...
- The Srebrenica Paradox The ICTY’s determination that Srebrenica constituted a genocide, and the ICJ’s affirmation of such findings in its Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Monteneg ...
- Pocket Constitutions: America's Founding Document in Small Print For a document that is usually found behind glass casing in museums and galleries, many have taken advantage of the ability to carry it in their purse, wallet-o ...
- Research Article (preprint): “Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books Over Expert Human Writers” The article (preprint) shared below was recently posted on arXiv. Title Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books Over Expert Human Writers Authors Tuhin Chakrabarty Department of Comp...
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...
- Competition and Diversity in Generative AI 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Competition and Diversity in Generative AI ...
- Composition-Grounded Instruction Synthesis for Visual Reasoning 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Composition-Grounded Instruction Synthesis for Visual Reasoning ...
- Why (not) use AI? Analyzing People's Reasoning and Conditions for AI Acceptability† 🔥🔥In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the need to incorporate lay-people's input into the governance and acceptability assessment of AI usage. However, how and why people judge acce...
- 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 ...
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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