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.
- Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Oil and gas prices are soaring. Some countries are ready with solar panels and EVs 🔥🔥🔥As an energy crisis grows, some countries are more prepared because of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Pakistan reduced its reliance on imported natural gas because of the growth of solar.
- How Trump’s Homeland Security Pick, a Prolific Investor, Got a Lot Wealthier in Congress 🔥🔥🔥
- Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far From Trump’s Gaze 🔥🔥
- The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law 🔥One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps p...
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.
- The Stupidity of a Bully 🔥🔥🔥When you abuse people and countries, they are unlikely to come running to help you ...
- March 16, 2026 🔥🔥In early 1775, the people of Boston were bitterly divided.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 329. 3/16/26 🔥… NYT OpEd from 25-year FBI agent Jacqueline Maguire: “I left the FBI last year, having held multiple leadership roles overseeing counterterrorism and criminal investigations.
- NEWS: Trump Admits U.S. Was Surprised by Iran’s Response, Says He May “Take Cuba,” as America's Allies Reject His Hormuz Demands 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Fulton County Update 🔥Judge J.P.
- "Georgia Republican Party official voted illegally nine times, judge rules" #ELB 🔥NBC News: A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 pres...
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.
- CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
- The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet† 🔥🔥On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
- Witness Caught Using Smartglasses in Court Blames it all on ChatGPT 🔥A judge in London tossed out witness testimony after discovering the man was receiving coaching through a pair of smartglasses.
- Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks | TechCrunch† 🔥AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
- Trump's AI czar calls for U.S. to 'get out' of war and warns Iran has a 'dead man's switch' that could render Gulf states almost uninhabitable | Fortune† "So there's a lot of scenarios here, a lot of really frightening scenarios about where escalation could lead," Sacks said.
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.
- Automating Bluebook Citations in Legal Scholarship: A User's Guide for Bluebook in Zotero† 🔥🔥This paper documents an implementation of the Bluebook Law Review citation format using the Zotero citation manager software. It introduces revisions to an exis ...
- The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threa ...
- Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters School vouchers and charter schools are primed to grow at a time when public school systems are experiencing a precipitous decline in enrollment. Unfortunately,
- JudgeGPT: When Progress Meets Precedent by Colleen V. Chien, Niyati Narang, Isabela Ferrari :: SSRN This article examines how artificial intelligence technologies are being integrated into the judicial systems of three jurisdictions: Brazil, China, and the Uni ...
- Not (Necessarily) Narrower: Rethinking the Relative Scope of Copyright Protection for Designs† There is ongoing and long-standing debate about whether the United States should provide more intellectual property protection for designs and, if so, what form ...
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.
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task 🔥🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- An Extreme Multi-label Text Classification (XMTC) Library Dataset: What if we took "Use of Practical AI in Digital Libraries" seriously?† Subject indexing is vital for discovery but hard to sustain at scale and across languages. We release a large bilingual (English/German) corpus of catalog records annotated with the Integrated…
- Shutdown Safety Valves for Advanced AI One common concern about advanced artificial intelligence is that it will prevent us from turning it off, as that would interfere with pursuing its goals. In this paper, we discuss an unorthodox propo...
- Scaling Generalist Data-Analytic Agents ArXiv link for Scaling Generalist Data-Analytic Agents ...
- Attention Is All You Need† The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and d...
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)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.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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