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.
- Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts 🔥🔥🔥🔥A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.
- New York City Mayoral Election Live Results 2025: Mamdani Wins 🔥🔥🔥🔥Get live results and maps from the 2025 New York City mayoral election.
- Alvin Bragg Is Re-elected as Manhattan’s District Attorney 🔥🔥🔥
- ‘Unnecessarily Cruel’: Judge Expresses Alarm About ICE Detention Conditions 🔥🔥
- Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference 🔥🔥
- New Jersey Governor Election Results 2025: Mikie Sherrill Wins 🔥🔥Get live results and maps from the 2025 New Jersey Governor election.
- Starmer was briefed on Mandelson’s Epstein links before appointing him, say civil servants† 🔥PM had been given ‘summary of reputational risks’ but did not know about contents of emails before PMQs, MPs told ...
- Exclusive: Trump moves to fire watchdog of US housing regulator involved in crackdown, sources say† 🔥The internal watchdog for the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency is being removed from his role, four people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the housing regulator is playing a role in President Donald Trump's targeting of perceived political enemies.
- NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting 🔥Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse ...
- Sir Alan Bates agrees multimillion-pound settlement over Post Office scandal 🔥Government settles claim from former post office operator more than 20 years after he began his campaign for justice ...
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.
- Who's Threatening Who? 🔥🔥The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story ...
- BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger Wins and Flips Virginia Blue 🔥🔥A major victory for Democrats in Virginia as Spanberger flips the Commonwealth blue.
- BREAKING: Mikie Sherrill Wins and Keeps New Jersey Blue 🔥This is a major victory as Republicans hoped to flip the state red.
- Zohran Mamdani will be NYC's next mayor, as Dems win big across the board 🔥“While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together,” Mamdani declared in his victory speech. Dems Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey also won.
- November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.
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.
- Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Senator Ron Wyden says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.
- An OpenAI Founder Discusses Anthropic Merger Talks, Internal Beefs in Deposition 🔥Anthropic initially expressed “excitement” about a possible merger with OpenAI two years ago, after OpenAI’s board fired CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever tol...
- Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work | TechCrunch† OpenAI's approach to working with copyrighted content is to ask forgiveness, not permission.
- Why the Biggest Record Company Is Teaming Up With the AI-Music Company It Was Just Suing†
- The "Taylor's Version" generation is not gonna let Big AI steal her stuff - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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.
- Against the Single-Subject Rule for the Citizen Initiative 🔥🔥The citizen initiative allows voters to bypass state legislatures and propose laws for a statewide referendum. It exists in twenty-four states, but it has ...
- Non-Competition Clauses in Canadian Employment Law and the Doctrine of Inequality of Bargaining Power 🔥In 2021, the Ontario government legislatively prohibited most non-competition clauses, the first Canadian government to take this step. The move was unexpected ...
- A New Satanic Panic A broad backlash to LGBTQ visibility and equality has emerged in recent years. Its conservative proponents have asserted that queer people are Satanic, calle ...
- Immigration Adjudication, Judicial Review, And The Uneven Incorporation Of Administrative Law Norms This article examines the interaction between immigration law and administrative law. Scholars and courts regularly treat immigration as outside of, or excep ...
- Distress-Proofing Social Enterprises† Bankruptcy scholars disagree about whether financial distress means the end of social enterprise. In United States bankruptcy courts, the filing of a bank ...
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.
- We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research 🔥🔥We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu ...
- Strategic Delegation of Moral Decisions to AI 🔥🔥Our study examines how individuals perceive the moral agency of artificial intelligence (AI), and, specifically, whether individuals believe that by using AI ...
- Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence† We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...
- Rejection and Resentment of Generative AI in Creative Industries: A Systematic Literature Review Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced new capabilities in creative work, yet its rapid adoption has triggered strong, emotionally-driven resist ...
- Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science ArXiv link for Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science ...
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)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Denys Beecher (@dbeecher.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) (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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