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.
- Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Why I Am Resigning 🔥🔥🔥A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
- Trial Dispatch: The Comey Hearing of Nov. 5, 2025 🔥🔥A judge ordered grand jury minutes turned over to James Comey, as well as information from five-year-old searches of Professor Dan Richman.
- The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly 🔥🔥Welcome to the third Red Scare.
- F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It 🔥🔥
- Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order 🔥The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
- What’s Up With the Terror Indictment Against Alleged Antifa Members? 🔥The Justice Department’s tacked-on charges are just for show. The larger plan is not.
- How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling 🔥Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action ...
- Lobbyist at firm with close ties to Tories will help select Ofcom chair 🔥Appointment of Michael Prescott as interviewer follows move to give Paul Dacre chance to reapply ...
- Post Office Horizon IT contract extended for another year 🔥It is paying £41m to the Japanese-owned company Fujitsu to use the Horizon system until March 2027.
- Opinion | Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now? 🔥
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.
- Freedom is Action -- Finishing the Job 🔥🔥Help save the lives of the courageous ...
- Trump's pardons of his January 6 unindicted co-conspirators is a recruiting call to interfere in upcoming elections! 🔥🔥So we just learned that Donald Trump pardoned a bunch of people, including his unindicted co-conspirators in the now-defunct federal prosecution of Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the ...
- The Overnight News 🔥🔥Apparently, Sunday night is the new big news night.
- The Week Ahead November 9, 2025 ...
- NEWS: Trump Gives Ghislaine Maxwell Access to Service Puppy and Major Preferential Treatment in Prison Ghislaine Maxwell given major preferential treatment in prison, including access to service puppy, Supreme Court rejects attempt to overturn gay marriage, Trump pardons Giuliani and others.
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.
- 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.
- Alex Karp Goes to War 🔥🔥🔥Palantir’s CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?
- Kim Kardashian Says ChatGPT Played A Role In Her Test Fails | HuffPost Entertainment 🔥🔥In 2021, the “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” reality star passed California’s “baby bar” exam.
- Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom 🔥🔥Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
- Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings 🔥
- German court sides with plaintiff in copyright case against OpenAI 🔥A German court on Tuesday sided with the country's music rights society GEMA in a closely watched copyright case against U.S.-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
- No More Mr. Nice AI 🔥OpenAI is pursuing aggressive legal tactics against its opponents.
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 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 ...
- On the Relative Irrelevance of Constitutional Design: Lessons from Poland The paper begins with a reflection on whether there had been a proper constitutional ‘design’ in the case of Poland, considering the path-dependence and conting ...
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Accumulating Context Changes the Beliefs of Language Models Language model (LM) assistants are increasingly used in applications such as brainstorming and research. Improvements in memory and context size have allowed these models to become more autonomous, wh...
- Lifelong Robot Library Learning: Bootstrapping Composable and Generalizable Skills for Embodied Control with Language Models Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for embodied reasoning and control, most recently by generating robot policy code that utilizes a custom library of vision and control primi...
- Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why In sequence modeling, the parametric memory of atomic facts has been predominantly abstracted as a brute-force lookup of co-occurrences between entities. We contrast this associative view against a ge...
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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