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.
- CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
- Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
- The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
- The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country ...
- Saudi Crown Prince Is Held Responsible for Khashoggi Killing in U.S. Report (Published 2021)
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.
- What Happens When The Government Loses Its Credibility: The Comey Prosecution 🔥🔥🔥This is one of those long posts we occasionally have when a judge files a highly significant order.
- A Federal Judge Lowers the Boom on Lindsey Halligan 🔥🔥And leaves the Comey prosecution on life support ...
- Court blocks Texas redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame 🔥"DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering," a Trump appointee wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court.
- November 18, 2025 For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...
- Today in Poliitcs, Bulletin 253. 11/18/25 … The bipartisan Epstein resolution sponsored by Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie to compel DOJ to release the entire contents of the files (except for victim info) passed the House today by a vote of 427-...
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.
- Give Us Your Face or Lose Your Account: AI Age Verification Is Here, and Experts Are Worried 🔥🔥🔥From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong.
- 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 ...
- Anticompetitive Acquiescence in AI Content Licensing - ProMarket 🔥🔥Large AI firms like OpenAI and Amazon are licensing content to train their models that they might otherwise have been able to access for free under the fair use doctrine. Mark A. Lemley and Jacob Noti...
- A16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New York’s AI safety bill. He says bring it on. | TechCrunch† 🔥A super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI and other tech leaders has targeted New York Assembly member Alex Bores' congressional campaign, marking its first attack against a lawmaker supporting AI regulation.
- Student cheating dominates talk of generative AI in higher ed, but universities and tech companies face ethical issues too 🔥A sociologist who researches AI’s impact on work and education argues there are ethical dimensions to generative AI that institutions are not considering.
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.
- Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence† 🔥🔥In 2025, the Trump Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel declared that it is a federal crime simply to be an undocumented immigrant. But Congress has enac ...
- Religious Antiliberalism and the First Amendment An emerging intellectual and ideological critique of liberalism is coinciding with a significant transformation of the American law of church and state. Contemp ...
- Amicus Brief of Prof. Andrew Kent, WMM v. Trump (5th Cir. 2025) (en banc) This amicus brief draws on my research on the original meaning of the several parts of the the Alien Enemies Act. See Andrew Kent, The Alien Enemies Ac ...
- How Design Patent Law Lost Its Shape Under U.S. law, patents are available for “any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.” Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (
- PRIVATE EQUITY, PUBLIC CAPITAL, AND LITIGATION RISK For nearly a century, securities regulation has drawn a sharp line: firms that seek to raise capital from the public must comply with strict governance and disc ...
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.
- Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to…
- PeatDepth-ML: A Global Map of Peat Depth Predicted using Machine Learning 🔥Abstract. Peatlands are major carbon stores that are sensitive to climate change and increasingly affected by human activity. Accurate assessment of carbon stocks and modelling of peatland responses t...
- Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types† 🔥ArXiv link for Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types ...
- 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...
- Wave-Former: Through-Occlusion 3D Reconstruction via Wireless Shape Completion ArXiv link for Wave-Former: Through-Occlusion 3D Reconstruction via Wireless Shape Completion ...
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)
- Insubordinate Piggy Hat (@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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