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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.
- Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases 🔥🔥🔥
- 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.
- “Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”† 🔥🔥🔥My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
- Sarkozy enters jail over campaign financing - France's first ex-president behind bars 🔥Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.
- Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Is Considering a Sale 🔥
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.
- Exclusive: Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete 🔥🔥Photos obtained by Law Dork show the dramatic extent of the first step in Trump's purported plan to build a new ballroom on White House grounds with private funds.
- NEWS: White House Furious Over Leaked Demolition Photos and Demands Employees Stop Sharing 🔥White House furious over leaked demolition photos and demands employees stop sharing, ICE purchases guided missiles components and surveillance equipment, nuclear agency furloughs employees, and more ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 233. 10/21/25 … Trump said he is willing to settle his lawsuit against DOJ for $230 million claiming malicious prosecution.
- October 21, 2025 On this, the twenty-first day of the government shutdown, President Donald J.
- NEWS: Donald Trump Demands $230 Million Payment from DOJ For Investigating Him Trump demands DOJ pay him $230 million for investigating him, ICE struggles with recruitment because of "athletically allergic" candidates, Trump defends demolishing the East Wing, and more ...
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.
- New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases.
- OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts† Filed by child exploitation investigators with the DHS, the warrant reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Comparative analysis of OSINT tools, techniques, and legal aspects by Willi Lazarov, Vojtech Moravec, Pavel Loutocký, Jakub Vostoupal, Zdenek Martinasek :: SSRN Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has emerged as a crucial practice in the digital era, driven by the rapid growth of information available on the internet and i ...
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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- DRO-InstructZero: Distributionally Robust Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models ArXiv link for DRO-InstructZero: Distributionally Robust Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models ...
- Enhance Large Language Models as Recommendation Systems with Collaborative Filtering ArXiv link for Enhance Large Language Models as Recommendation Systems with Collaborative Filtering ...
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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