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.
- This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline. 🔥🔥🔥🔥After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
- Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director 🔥🔥🔥In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
- Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians 🔥🔥🔥IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy ...
- Israeli right skewers efforts to prosecute soldiers for wartime abuses 🔥🔥The alleged sexual abuse of a Palestinian detainee has ignited a fierce debate over whether soldiers should be immune from prosecution or face justice for misconduct.
- Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches 🔥🔥
- Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats 🔥FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
- Trump Administration Plans to Send Border Patrol to Charlotte and New Orleans 🔥
- ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules 🔥OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission ...
- Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years 🔥More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds ...
- Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says 🔥10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström ...
- 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.
- Prime Minister will fight any attempt to replace him, friends say 🔥Allies of the prime minister are worried his job might be under immediate threat.
- Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy Heir, to Seek Nadler’s N.Y. Congressional Seat 🔥
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.
- Watchdog Group Files Bar Ethics Complaint Against Lindsey Halligan 🔥🔥The non-profit group Campaign for Accountability requests investigation of top federal prosecutor pursuing cases against Letitia James and James Comey.
- Kim Davis is done. The Supreme Court is not reconsidering Obergefell. What happens now? 🔥There is a reason people were afraid that the Supreme Court would take up case. The reason is the Supreme Court itself. Here's why I'm taking this whole experience seriously.
- November 11, 2025 🔥In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...
- NEWS: Democrats Score Unexpected, Major Win in Utah and Secure Additional House of Representatives Seat 🔥Utah Court deals stunning blow to Republican Congressional maps, Trump blames Obama for racism in America, Trump blasts SNAP and pledges "reform," Trump's Thailand ceasefire is dead, and more ...
- Trump’s Sinister Attempt to Whitewash History 🔥His spate of pardons is an offense against all of us.
- BREAKING: Republicans Demand Abortion Restrictions in Exchange for ACA Subsidies 🔥Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions in exchange for ACA subsidies, Grijalva will be sworn in tomorrow, Republicans are furious at Johnson as GOP loses redistricting war, and more ...
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.
- ChatGPT violated copyright law by harvesting musicians’ lyrics, German court rules 🔥🔥🔥🔥OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on popular songs without permission A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling. The Munich regional court sided in favour of Germany’s music rights society GEMA, which said ChatGPT had harvested protected lyrics by popular artists to “learn” from them. Continue reading...
- Pardon the Corruption 🔥🔥Trump’s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren’t only about settling scores from past elections. They’re about laying the groundwork to subvert future ones.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II 🔥🔥As a matter of original public meaning, Article I's Necessary and Proper clause is the starting point for both Congress's power to create offices and the limits ...
- 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 ...
- Ending the Paper Chase at the U.S. Supreme Court This Article offers the first systematic analysis of the administrative impact and practical consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court's filing requirements. The l ...
- 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...
- 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...
- ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design ArXiv link for ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design ...
- 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 Impact of Visual Generative AI on Advertising Effectiveness The advertising industry stands at a pivotal moment as visual generative AI (genAI) can transform creative content production. Despite growing enthusiasm, empir ...
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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