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 is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help ...
- More Trouble for the Comey Indictment? 🔥🔥Public documents may undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps 🔥
- ‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
- Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
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.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥November 9, 2025 ...
- Major Mid-Day Breaking News 🔥🔥Donald Trump orders states stop paying full SNAP benefits, Reagan judge resigns to speak out against Trump, Trump feels increasingly isolated as Republicans begin to ignore him, and more ...
- DOJ says full SNAP payments were "unauthorized," as USDA directs states to "undo" them 🔥🔥A week of chaotic change-ups as food benefits for more than 40 million people hang in the balance. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- November 9, 2025 🔥In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 246. 11/9/25 🔥… Axios: “Senate Democrats on Sunday indicated they are ready to advance a package of bills that could end the govt shutdown.
- Sunday Morning Wrap-Up 🔥Here’s the highlight reel of the past week’s posts and events.
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 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...
- 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.
- New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.
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.
- 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 Legality of Omnibus Legislation Under EU Law: A Preliminary Analysis of Omnibus I Simplification Directive of CSRD and CSDD and its Legal Consequences on the EU Legal Order This memorandum provides a preliminary analysis of the legal issues arising from the European Union's use of the Omnibus as the privileged legislative technique ...
- 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 emergency 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...
- Simple 3D Pose Features Support Human and Machine Social Scene Understanding Humans can quickly and effortlessly extract a variety of information about others' social interactions from visual input, ranging from visuospatial cues like whether two people are facing each other t...
- 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...
- Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery Data-driven scientific discovery requires iterative cycles of literature search, hypothesis generation, and data analysis. Substantial progress has been made towards AI agents that can automate scient...
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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