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.
- China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising ...
- More Trouble for the Comey Indictment? 🔥🔥Public documents may undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.
- Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control 🔥A memo circulating within the federal government lays out her office’s reasoning for wanting to transfer counterintelligence work away from the FBI.
- Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
- Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
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.
- Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule 🔥🔥🔥DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Update: Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m.
- November 7, 2025 🔥The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 245. 11/7/25 … Trump FINALLY got confronted today by the FACT that the Walmart Thanksgiving dinner he keeps citing to prove prices are down is only because his comparison from last year contained FEWER items, of l...
- BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Order Requiring Trump to Pay SNAP Benefits Apologies for another email on a Friday night, but, the Supreme Court tonight temporarily froze a federal district judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to deliver full SNAP benefits to rou...
- BREAKING: Trump Reverses Course, Will Fully Fund SNAP While Court Fight Continues The Trump Administration will fully fund SNAP benefits despite fighting the court battle, hundreds of students and faculty protest Trump, Republicans reject Schumer proposal to reopen government ...
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.
- ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN† 🔥A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
- OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions† OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
- Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions† Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
- Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
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.
- Immigration is Not Invasion† 🔥🔥 In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- The Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy† 🔥This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on eme ...
- Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner Violence This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat ...
- Silicon Sovereigns: Artificial Intelligence, International Law, and the Tech-Industrial Complex Artificial intelligence is reshaping science, society, and power. Yet many debates over its likely impact remain fixated on extremes: utopian visions of u ...
- Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law Synthetic data is increasingly important in data usage and AI design, creating novel legal and policy dilemmas. All too often, discussions of synthetic data tre ...
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.
- Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog†
- LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users ArXiv link for LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users ...
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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