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.
- Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system ...
- Viktor Orbán begins ‘anti-war roadshow’ as Hungary gears up for 2026 elections 🔥🔥PM makes opposition to support for Ukraine central to Fidesz campaign as it loses ground over cost of living crisis ...
- MPs urge Reeves to raise gambling taxes despite ‘scaremongering’ from firms 🔥🔥Treasury select committee calls for higher duties on most addictive forms, such as high-street slots and online games ...
- Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers 🔥🔥Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market ...
- Sheffield charity given grant to fit 'swift bricks' in homes 🔥The Sheffield Swift Network was given £7,000 by the council for a project to help the birds nest.
- The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived 🔥A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
- Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in past three years 🔥Exclusive: Councils prosecuted just 64 landlords despite receiving 300,000 complaints from tenants in unfit homes ...
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.
- Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about 🔥🔥🔥🔥DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
- The Grift Bubble 🔥A Political Theory of American Collapse ...
- NEWS: Growing Number of Military Service Members Seek Outside Legal Counsel to Determine if Trump's Orders are Legal Growing number of military service members seek outside counsel to determine if Trump's orders are legal, Trump furious at Indiana Republicans who won't redistrict, Epstein survivors demand action ...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 251 … After Trump’s disastrous string of days last week capped off by the terrible Laura Ingraham interview which infuriated MAGA on several different issues (chronicled extensively in previous Bulletins)...
- November 16, 2025 On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...
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 ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules† 🔥🔥🔥OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission ...
- Libellous chatbots could be AI’s next big legal headache Companies from Google and Meta to OpenAI are getting sued for defamation ...
- 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.
- Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 mil…
- Going Nuclear? - CIRSD CIRSD ...
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 '
- Voids of Constitutional Law Although the U.S. Constitution has long been held out as a model for a particular type of constitutionalism, recent developments have drawn attention t ...
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.
- Physics of Language Models: Part 3.1, Knowledge Storage and Extraction 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) can store a vast amount of world knowledge, often extractable via question-answering (e.g., "What is Abraham Lincoln's birthday?"). However, do they answer such questions ...
- 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 ...
- Approximating the Mathematical Structure of Psychodynamics The complexity of human cognition has meant that psychology makes more use of theory and conceptual models than perhaps any other biomedical field. To enable precise quantitative study of the full bre...
- 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...
- BadScientist: Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers? The convergence of LLM-powered research assistants and AI-based peer review systems creates a critical vulnerability: fully automated publication loops where AI-generated research is evaluated by AI r...
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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