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.
- Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
- For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021) 🔥🔥
- ICE Scouted Site to Hold Immigrant Detainees in New York City 🔥🔥
- Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump 🔥President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate the dealings of Democrats with Jeffrey Epstein, after a week in which his own relationship with the convicted sex offender was in the…
- Fullerton police stop man pointing gun at female driver, only to learn he is ICE agent 🔥A Fullerton police officer told the agent he couldn't help 'with someone following or recording him if no crime had occurred.' Under state law, local police cannot enforce federal immigration law.
- Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform 🔥Exclusive: thinktank report finds health secretary has failed to improve productivity, with the health service unlikely to meet its targets ...
- Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. 🔥
- UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays 🔥Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
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.
- NEWS: Donald Trump Privately is Feeling "Cornered" Over Epstein Files as he Enters Lame-Duck Era 🔥🔥Donald Trump is privately feeling "cornered" and is "freaking out" due to the fallout of the Epstein files, and I have received an exclusive letter from the survivors demanding action.
- November 16, 2025 🔥A friend has asked for a picture tonight, and I’m happy to oblige.
- Five Questions With Miles Taylor 🔥The Chief of Staff at DHS during the 1st Trump administration, author of the anonymous NYT op-ed that informed us about resistance to Trump on the inside ...
- D.C. Circuit won't review Trump admin contempt appeal further, sending matter back to Boasberg† 🔥The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15.
- NEWS: Intra-party Civil War Between Trump and Greene Grows as More Republicans Break from Trump Intra-party civil war grows between Trump and Greene as more Republicans break from Trump. Meanwhile, Trump said he does not know which body part was scanned during a recent MRI.
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.
- That NYPD arresting ICE agents video is completely fake. AI slop. Do not spread. Subscribe for more! 🔥🔥🔥YouTube video by Eliza Orlins ...
- Exclusive | Amazon and Microsoft Back Effort That Would Restrict Nvidia’s Exports to China 🔥🔥The legislation in Washington would give tech leaders preferential access to chips at their data centers around the world.
- The AI Shift: Is hiring becoming less meritocratic? 🔥🔥[FREE TO READ] Use of LLMs encourage more applications but they change the commitment signal of employers and employees ...
- Australia Rejects AI Text and Data Mining Copyright Exception 🔥The Albanese Government has rejected a proposal to amend Australia’s copyright laws to allow artificial intelligence (AI) systems to freely train on copyright works, according to an official statement...
- 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 ...
- Inside Harvey: How a first-year legal associate built one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups | TechCrunch 🔥TechCrunch spoke with Harvey's CEO and co-founder Winston Weinberg about the wild ride that he and co-founder Gabe Pereyra have been on so far.
- AI is resurrecting the voices of dead famous people 🔥If you don’t want a synthesized AI voice outliving you, get a lawyer now.
- A Chinese AI model taught itself basic physics — what discoveries could it make? 🔥A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.
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 paper provides a preliminary analysis of the legal issues arising from the European Union's use of the Omnibus as the privileged legislative technique to '
- 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 ...
- Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny† In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits t ...
- The Common Sense of a Wealth Tax: Thomas Paine & Taxation as Freedom from Aristocracy† Thomas Paine’s writing helped spur the American colonies to independence and ensure that the new nation would be a republic, not a monarchy. In light of the ren ...
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.
- Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors† 🔥🔥🔥LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans, organizations...
- Strategic Delegation of Moral Decisions to AI† 🔥🔥Our study examines how individuals perceive the moral agency of artificial intelligence (AI), and, specifically, whether individuals believe that by using AI ...
- What We Don't C: Representations for scientific discovery beyond VAEs† 🔥Accessing information in learned representations is critical for scientific discovery in high-dimensional domains. We introduce a novel method based on latent flow matching with classifier-free guidan...
- Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024) A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-based method. However, o...
- Do Large Language Models Perform the Way People Expect? Measuring the Human Generalization Function What makes large language models (LLMs) impressive is also what makes them hard to evaluate: their diversity of uses. To evaluate these models, we must understand the purposes they will be used for. W...
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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- DO NOT REPEAT THIS POPEHAT (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brandi Buchman (@brandibuchman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Joh (@elizabethjoh.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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