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.
- US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future | Stacey Abrams and Esosa Osa 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥DEI is being used as a smokescreen to roll back progress and consolidate power. The goal is to rewrite our nation’s story ...
- Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing 🔥🔥
- White House expands East Wing demolition as critics decry Trump overreach 🔥🔥More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,
- Police take no further action against men arrested for Trump Windsor projections 🔥Investigation ends after Led By Donkeys stunt highlighting the US president’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ...
- Opinion | The Santos Commutation Is No Joke 🔥
- Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 🔥Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables ...
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 22, 2025 🔥🔥🔥“It’s not his house.
- Trump has polarized how the public views politicization 🔥🔥His supporters are coming to accept his way of governing ...
- NEWS: Trump Struggles to Recruit ICE Agents as Most Can't Pass Basic Fitness Tests 🔥Trump struggles to recruit ICE agents because they cannot pass basic fitness tests, White House demolition accelerates, Trump makes firearm examiners essential employees allowing gun purchases ...
- NEWS: Donald Trump to Demolish the Entire East Wing of the White House Without Prior Approval 🔥Trump to demolish the entire East Wing of the White House without prior approval, Trump sanctions Russia and cancels meeting with Putin, White House moves closer to federal takeover of 2026 election ...
- Trump is suing...the government? Andrew Weissmann on the DOJ suit & Comey Case 🔥"You have the president saying, 'I want $230 million' and you had 7 million people just this past weekend protesting for no kings."
- Moment of Truth for the High Court 🔥Will the Court Authorize Emergency Power Based on Falsehood?
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.
- DHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User Data In First Known Warrant For ChatGPT 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.
- OpenAI Loosened Suicide-Talk Rules Before Teen’s Death, Lawsuit Alleges 🔥🔥An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement.
- 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.
- Public Figures Sign Petition Urging Ban On AI ‘Superintelligence’: Including Harry, Meghan, Steve Bannon And Richard Branson The petition organized by the non-profit Future of Life Institute calls for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence until more safety measures are in place.
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.
- Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have 🔥🔥🔥For some large and powerful industries, it has long been normal and even routine for businesses to sue their federal regulator. For other large and powerful ...
- "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 ...
- Everyday Veil Piercing Under veil-piercing doctrine, shareholders may lose the privilege of limited liability by disregarding the legal separation between themselves and the ...
- The Appellate Void What would it actually look like for the executive branch to defy a court order? The standard picture involves a dramatic confrontation between the President an ...
- Separation of Parties, Not Powers American political institutions were founded upon the Madisonian assumption of vigorous, self-sustaining political competition between the legislative and exec ...
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.
- AI and the Extended Workday: Productivity, Contracting Efficiency, and Distribution of Rents 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This study examines how occupational AI exposure affects employment at the intensive margin, i.e., workday length. Using individual-level time diary data from 2 ...
- Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning 🔥Reasoning models improve their problem-solving ability through inference-time scaling, allocating more compute via longer token budgets. Identifying which reasoning traces are likely to succeed remain...
- 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...
- 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 ...
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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