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.
- ‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name ...
- ‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years 🔥🔥🔥Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve ...
- What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In 🔥🔥
- What caused a massive die-off of penguins off the South African coast? 🔥🔥There are fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of African penguins left today.
- Broadcaster targeted with racist slurs accuses Farage of emboldening ‘toxic environment’ online 🔥🔥Farage is responsible for ‘dangerous’ culture shift, says broadcaster subject to alleged posts from Reform councillor ...
- U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order 🔥A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
- The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone 🔥RFK Jr.’s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy.
- Under RFK Jr., the CDC provides a megaphone to the anti-vaccine movement 🔥Common anti-vaccine talking points were on display as the CDC’s immunization advisers repealed a hepatitis B birth vaccine recommendation and scrutinized the childhood schedule.
- As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE 🔥Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
- Ministers urged to close £2bn tax loophole in car finance scandal 🔥Banks and specialist lenders will not pay tax on compensation payouts, sidestepping 2015 rule ...
- HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait 🔥Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
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.
- Ukrainian History Global Initiative 🔥🔥The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction ...
- A Thoughtful Child Could Spot the Problem With the Supreme Court’s Sloppy Pro-Gerrymandering Decision 🔥🔥The shadow docket order in the Texas redistricting case provides state lawmakers with step-by-step instructions for drawing discriminatory maps without having to worry about judicial review.
- Charges in the RNC/DNC Bomb Planting Case 🔥Can we trust the FBI and this Justice Department after years of watching Donald Trump denigrate and politicize those previously independent agencies?
- December 6, 2025 🔥On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
- Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. 🔥Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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.
- The Most Dangerous Corporation in America? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work† Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
- From the Lawyertalk community on Reddit† Explore this post and more from the Lawyertalk community ...
- Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses | TechCrunch The voluntary recall comes as scrutiny by federal regulators and local school district officials increases.
- The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 2. ChatGPT, OpenAI and Cyberstalking.† oncerns about OpenAI leader Sam Altman pushing past employee and safety experts’ concerns have only intensified after numerous lawsuits have alleged that Altman’s disregard led to the death of seve…
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.
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition† 🔥 In the process of bulldozing the unitary executive theory, scholars have made several seemingly unrelated discoveries. First, "judicial&quo ...
- The Forgotten Fundamental Right to Free Movement† There is a powerful fundamental right hiding in plain sight: the fundamental right to free movement. This right goes beyond the consistently acknowledged—though ...
- Introducing the A2AJ's Canadian Legal Data: An Open-Source Alternative to CanLII for the Era of Computational Law† The Access to Algorithmic Justice project (A2AJ) is an open-source alternative to the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII). At a moment when technology ...
- Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Replace Law Professors?† In the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant technical advances, such that legal-advocacy organizations are increasingly ado ...
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.
- Pushing Tensor Accelerators Beyond MatMul in a User-Schedulable Language† 🔥🔥🔥Tensor accelerators now represent a growing share of compute resources in modern CPUs and GPUs. However, they are hard to program, leading developers to use vendor-provided kernel libraries that suppo...
- Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Replace Law Professors?† 🔥🔥 In the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant technical advances, such that legal-advocacy organizations are increasin ...
- Epistemic Fragility in Large Language Models: Prompt Framing Systematically Modulates Misinformation Correction 🔥As large language models (LLMs) rapidly displace traditional expertise, their capacity to correct misinformation has become a core concern. We investigate the idea that prompt framing systematically m...
- AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour 🔥This position paper argues for two claims regarding AI testing and evaluation. First, to remain informative about deployment behaviour, evaluations need account for the possibility that AI systems und...
- Search versus Decision for $\mathsf{S}_2^\mathsf{P}$ We compare the complexity of the search and decision problems for the complexity class S2P. While Cai (2007) showed that the decision problem is contained in ZPP^NP, we show that the search...
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)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.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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