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.
- Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year 🔥🔥Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades ...
- Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’ 🔥Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center ...
- A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office 🔥A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open at a recent Oval Office event.
- Exclusive | Inside Trump’s ‘Guns-a-Blazing’ Threat and Nigeria’s Race to Head It Off 🔥The West African country is trying to persuade the president not to insert the U.S. military or cut off aid as largely Muslim cattle herdsmen are accused of killing Christians.
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.
- November 8, 2025 🔥🔥🔥A picture for tonight after a very long week.
- Takeaways From Election 2025 🔥Keep Fighting ...
- SCOTUS SNAP Benefits Ruling w/ Steve Vladeck A special Saturday Live to really dive into the details of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's ruling from late last night ...
- NEWS: Trump Lashes Out at Republicans as White House Feels Pressure From Americans Over Shutdown Trump lashes out at Republicans over pressure from Americans over shutdown, Trump suggests move toward universal healthcare, Maxwell gets special treatment behind bars, and more ...
- LIVE SOON: Judges AND juries are pushing back against Trump's lawlessness and unconstitutionality Starting Nov 8 at 8:00 PM EST ...
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 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.
- 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.
- ChatGPT accused of acting as ‘suicide coach’ in series of US lawsuits Chatbot was first used for ‘general help’ with schoolwork or research but ‘evolved into a psychologically manipulative presence’, plaintiffs say ChatGPT has been accused of acting as a “suicide coach” in a series of lawsuits filed this week in California alleging that interactions with the chatbot led to severe mental breakdowns and several deaths. The seven lawsuits include allegations of wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, negligence and product liability. In the US, you can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...
- Kim Kardashian says ChatGPT is her 'frenemy' | TechCrunch Kim Kardashian admitted that she has failed legal exams after blindly relying on ChatGPT's advice.
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.
- 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 ...
- The Opioid Crisis Meets Genomics The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of the first polygenic risk score test has been met with powerful criticism. The test, AvertD, was ap ...
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...
- LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users† ArXiv link for LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users ...
- A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas As LLMs (large language models) are increasingly used to generate synthetic personas particularly in data-limited domains such as health, privacy, and HCI, it becomes necessary to understand how these...
- When Semantics Connect the Swarm: LLM-Driven Fuzzy Control for Cooperative Multi-Robot Underwater Coverage ArXiv link for When Semantics Connect the Swarm: LLM-Driven Fuzzy Control for Cooperative Multi-Robot Underwater Coverage ...
- Inverse Knowledge Search over Verifiable Reasoning: Synthesizing a Scientific Encyclopedia from a Long Chains-of-Thought Knowledge Base Most scientific materials compress reasoning, presenting conclusions while omitting the derivational chains that justify them. This compression hinders verification by lacking explicit, step-wise just...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Joh (@elizabethjoh.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) (promoted)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brandi Buchman (@brandibuchman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Denys Beecher (@dbeecher.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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