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.
- Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of “questionable value,” the National Association of Medical Examiners cautions. The paper follows a ProPublica report on how the te...
- ‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump 🔥🔥
- Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt 🔥🔥
- From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers 🔥The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.
- Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows 🔥Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity ...
- Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts, analysis finds† 🔥Survivors urge government to stop using suppliers cited in public inquiry into fire in which 72 people died ...
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.
- 500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025 - Part 3 🔥🔥🔥#201-300, April-June 2025.
- Feds of the Year for 2025 🔥In a time of constitutional ravages, one group of feds held the line.
- Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative 🔥On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
- December 29, 2025 🔥In an appearance on New York’s WABC radio on Friday, President Donald J.
- NEWS: Trump Told Greene Epstein Files Would “Hurt My Friends” and Said Survivors Did Not Deserve White House Meeting Good afternoon.
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.
- 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident 🔥🔥🔥🔥How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
- This Florida nonprofit wants AI to warn communities in real time about drug use† 🔥The system from Project Overdose is being beta-tested with plans to roll out statewide early next year.
- 74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
- Surveillance Tech Heightens Chilling Effects for Disabled Protestors | TechPolicy.Press† AI surveillance, mask bans, and biometrics threaten disabled people’s ability to exercise their right to assemble peaceably, argues Ariana Aboulafia.
- AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk† Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI model...
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.
- "Lyman Trumbull's Letter to Andrew Johnson": Authorship, Transcript and Artificial Intelligence 🔥Somewhere in the Library of Congress, in a box of papers donated by the estate of President Andrew Johnson, is an unsigned and undated document titled ...
- The Meaning and Ambiguity of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment† Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualified anyone from serving in the House or Senate, or as a presidential elector, if they had betrayed their oath ...
- Child Rape and the Death Penalty† In May 2023, Florida authorized the death penalty for the sexual battery of a child under twelve. The law, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, ch ...
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.
- Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human ...
- Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity† 🔥Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February-...
- Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games Ensuring the safety of language models (LMs) while maintaining their usefulness remains a critical challenge in AI alignment. Current approaches rely on sequential adversarial training: generating adv...
- Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs† When not using reasoning, repeating the input prompt improves performance for popular models (Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek) without increasing the number of generated tokens or latency.
- Academic journals' AI policies fail to curb the surge in AI-assisted academic writing† The rapid integration of generative AI into academic writing has prompted widespread policy responses from journals and publishers. However, the effectiveness of these policies remains unclear. Here, ...
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)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Your Last Merry Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Brody (@dbrody.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (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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