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.
- Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls ...
- EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland 🔥🔥🔥🔥Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds ...
- Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases 🔥Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
- Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript 🔥The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
- Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump 🔥Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed ...
- Bolsonaro out of appeals, will start 27-year sentence for coup attempt 🔥The former Brazilian president will begin his sentence in a specially prepared cell at federal police headquarters in Brasília.
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.
- DOJ lawyers state that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made decision not to return March 15 flights 🔥🔥Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Explanation: The Comey and James Prosecutions, Dismissed Without Prejudice 🔥🔥Preet's and my conversation and more ...
- NEWS: National Republicans in Full Panic as Democrat Surges in Tennessee Special Election 🔥We have major news coming out of Tennessee tonight, and it’s far bigger than anyone expected.
- Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hanged Them. 🔥This week, Donald Trump continues to use his claimed power to kill people who have received no due process, in international waters, based on his administration’s assertion that they are narcoterroris...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 258. 11/25/25 🔥… Trump has reportedly had enough of Kash Patel’s antics and is seeking to replace him in the near future.
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.
- Big Tech's AI Power-Grab† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥YouTube video by Robert Reich ...
- Pentagon investigating Sen. Mark Kelly after ‘you can refuse illegal orders’ video† 🔥
- ChatGPT told them they were special — their families say it led to tragedy | TechCrunch† A wave of lawsuits against OpenAI detail how ChatGPT used manipulative language to isolate users from loved ones and make itself into their sole confidant.
- Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability.
- OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.
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 Control of the Civil Service 🔥🔥Conventional wisdom treats the federal civil service as largely beyond the president’s reach. This Article challenges that assumption. Legal scholars too oft ...
- One Decade, One Map: State Constitutional Limits on Mid-Decade Redistricting† In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court closed the federal courthouse doors to claims of partisan gerrymandering, effectively permitting states to engage in wh ...
- Selective Flexibility: The Hidden Evolution of Startup Corporate Law This Article challenges the longstanding assumption that corporate law is largely irrelevant to startup companies and venture capital (VC). Through a n ...
- A Tale of Trolls and Fees: The Role of Fee-Shifting in Patent Litigation† Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) are often viewed as taxing innovative activity; we show how fee shifting in patent litigation can effectively deter their more ...
- Israel's Genocide in Gaza: An Annotated Bibliography Israel's genocide in Gaza is the most documented genocide in history. No other genocide can boast over 4 terabytes of high-definition, color vide ...
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.
- 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 ...
- We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research† 🔥We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu ...
- Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI 🔥ArXiv link for Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI ...
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models† 🔥We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
- "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community The emergence of AI companion applications has created novel forms of intimate human-AI relationships, yet empirical research on these communities remains limited. We present the first large-scale com...
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)
- Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Popehat of Serious Proportion (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.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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