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.
- How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street 🔥
- Washington Post paperback bestsellers 🔥A snapshot of popular books.
- Tariff-Paying Firms Line Up in Court to Get Paid If Trump Loses 🔥The day before a US Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, yet another lawsuit contesting his trade policies hit the docket.
- Republicans Swiftly File Lawsuit in Bid to Block California’s New House Maps 🔥Republicans asked a federal court to block newly approved maps in California that were designed to flip as many as five House seats for Democrats.
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.
- What the Frogs Know 🔥🔥🔥Boil the pot too fast and the frogs feel the heat.
- Trump's tariffs face a skeptical SCOTUS as Gorsuch warns of a "one-way ratchet" in presidential powers Kavanaugh stood out in defense of the administration, but even his questions started lagging as the day wore on.
- How “War” Becomes War Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Ours of Us ...
- November 5, 2025 New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.
- NEWS: Democrats Achieve Historic Election Sweep as Blue Wave Redefines the Political Landscape Democrats achieve historic election night sweep, redefining the political landscape, and this morning Donald Trump put it bluntly: “I don’t think it was good for Republicans.”
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.
- OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages 🔥🔥🔥🔥Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
- Kim Kardashian Says ChatGPT Made Her Fail Law Exams: “They’re Always Wrong” 🔥🔥🔥The reality star and business mogul has been studying law for the past six years.
- 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...
- xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 🔥🔥Project Skippy?
- Opinion | Dehumanizing and Dystopian: How Gen Z-ers See Work 🔥🔥Technology has left them with little autonomy or security in their jobs.
- 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.
- Stability AI largely wins UK court battle against Getty Images over copyright and trademark 🔥Stability AI has mostly prevailed against Getty Images in a British court battle over intellectual property.
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 ...
- The Chadha Presidency Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the answer to th ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog 🔥
- The Limits of Regulating AI Safety Through Liability and Insurance: Lessons From Cybersecurity As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in decision-making, design, and development across public and private sectors, proposals to ...
- 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 ...
- Machine Learning for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction: a review of current methods and challenges Predicting the secondary structure of RNA is a core challenge in computational biology, essential for understanding molecular function and designing novel therapeutics. The field has evolved from foun...
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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