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.
- Prince Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move out of Royal Lodge 🔥🔥🔥🔥He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - Buckingham Palace says ...
- Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist 🔥🔥🔥The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
- Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally 🔥🔥🔥The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
- Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title 🔥🔥
- Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack 🔥🔥
- In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape 🔥🔥
- Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder 🔥🔥The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...
- Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases 🔥🔥Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
- Top Intel Democrat rips Trump administration over exclusion from boat strike briefing 🔥A briefing held only for Republicans in Congress on U.S. military strikes is drawing a fierce rebuke from a key Democrat ...
- JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures 🔥
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.
- Is Justice Done? 🔥🔥🔥You’ve probably seen or read at least something about the story that is the subject of tonight’s post.
- October 30, 2025 🔥House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.
- How Petty and Self-Defeating Can You Get? 🔥DOJ punishment of prosecutors who merely mentioned January 6 ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 239. 10/30/25 🔥… Trump looked weak and pathetic during his meeting with China’s President Xi, and accomplished virtually nothing.
- BREAKING: Senate Republicans Rebuke Trump for Third Day in a Row Good afternoon everyone.
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.
- How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.
- Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead† 🔥🔥A New York judge dismissed an attempt by OpenAI to throw out a class action lawsuit that consolidates suits from a number of authors charging the company with copyright infringement.
- Federal judges using AI filed court orders with false quotes, fake names† 🔥The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee blasted the two federal judges for the erroneous filings and called for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.
- Grok Thinks This Border Patrol Chief Who Looks Like a Nazi Is Cindy Sherman† AI chatbots are terrible fact-checkers.
- My Book Was Stolen by an AI Company. Why Does Suing Them Feel Wrong? | The Walrus† The courtroom isn’t where this fight belongs—each lawsuit legitimizes the very system artists oppose ...
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.
- Medication Abortion Exceptionalism 🔥Though state laws dominate the abortion debate, there is a federal abortion policy that significantly curtails access to early abortion in all fifty states. The ...
- 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 (
- The Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on eme ...
- Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout Right now, more than 311,000 Australian Facebook users can apply for a slice of a A$50 million compensation fund from tech giant Meta-the largest ever payment f ...
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.
- 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 ...
- User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies 🔥🔥Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality training data as they race to improve m...
- Lost in Translation: Policymakers are not really listening to Citizen Concerns about AI† 🔥The worlds people have strong opinions about artificial intelligence (AI), and they want policymakers to listen. Governments are inviting public comment on AI, but as they translate input into policy,...
- Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible† Transformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the in...
- PaperAsk: A Benchmark for Reliability Evaluation of LLMs in Paper Search and Reading† Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as research assistants, yet their reliability in scholarly tasks remains under-evaluated. In this work, we introduce PaperAsk, a benchmark that systemat...
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)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mayor of Halloween Town (@joshuajfriedman.com) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 (@angryblacklady.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Kathleen Bush-Joseph (@kathleenbush.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Farbman (@danfarbman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Beau Baumann 🍏 (@beaubaumann.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.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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