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.
- Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It 🔥🔥
- After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’ 🔥
- British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands ...
- The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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 letter the BBC could send back to Trump 🔥🔥🔥A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim ...
- But His Emails... 🔥🔥Before he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by the pu**y and barging into rooms of partially dressed young pageant contestants.
- BREAKING: Democrats Reach 218 Signatures and Will Force Epstein Files Vote 🔥Adelita Grijalva has been sworn in and has signed the discharge petition. A full vote of the House to release the Epstein files is coming, and Mike Johnson cannot stop it.
- BREAKING: Bombshell Emails Released Showing Trump's Close Connection to Epstein 🔥Bombshell emails show Trump's connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Republicans reject efforts to redirect $40 billion from Argentina to protect healthcare subsidies, and much more.
- November 12, 2025 It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.
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...
- OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content 🔥🔥OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.
- 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?
- Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; ordered it to pay damages | TechCrunch A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.
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 ...
- What's The Matter With Lozada: How The Board Of Immigration Appeals Coerces Immigration Lawyers To Breach Legal Ethics In general, if an attorney makes a mistake, they can cure it by notifying the forum and filing the appropriate remedy. Immigration law, by contrast, stands alon ...
- 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.
- ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design ...
- HipKittens: Fast and Furious AMD Kernels 🔥🔥ArXiv link for HipKittens: Fast and Furious AMD Kernels ...
- Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI ...
- 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...
- 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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