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.
- Even for Some Mamdani Supporters, His Thin Résumé Is Cause for Concern 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The GOP’s antisemitism crisis 🔥🔥🔥🔥Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the looming Republican civil war over Jews.
- Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103 🔥🔥🔥
- He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go. 🔥🔥
- Amazon confirms massive job losses in corporate division 🔥The company says the opportunities provided by AI means it needs to be ...
- Trump’s Retribution Campaign Leaves D.C. Prosecutor’s Office in Crisis 🔥
- Victims robbed of £4bn in ‘insulting’ car loan redress scheme, say claims firms 🔥Financial Conduct Authority defends interest rate of 2.09% as critics describe proposals as ‘hypocritical’
- China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News 🔥Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
- Katie Miller is threatening the citizenship of a critic | Arwa Mahdawi 🔥Threatening to deport your critics, even those with US citizenship, seems to have become Maga policy ...
- Nigel Farage to promise business deregulation in economic policy speech 🔥Reform UK leader to set out ‘pro-entrepreneurship’ agenda while rowing back on tax cuts pledge ...
- China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show 🔥Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
- Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75 🔥
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.
- Good News: A Court Rejects Trump's Effort To Suppress The Vote 🔥🔥🔥🔥In March, Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.” Predictably, it was designed to do anything but that.
- The Week Ahead 🔥November 2, 2025 ...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 241 … Keystone Kash melted down and imploded this weekend after more drama involving his taxpayer funded private jets for booty calls.
- Sunday Morning Wrap-Up As we gear up for another busy week, here’s the highlight reel of the past week’s posts and events.
- November 2, 2025 Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist Nick Fuentes for more than two hours, mainstreaming the podcaster whose praise for Hitler, vows to kill Jew...
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.
- ‘Progressive’ Tech Group Asks Trump to Block AI Copyright Cases - The American Prospect† 🔥🔥🔥The Chamber of Progress’s campaign to promote fair use, which they have created a campaign around called “Generate and Create,” comes as at least three of the nonprofit organization’s past or current ...
- Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology† 🔥🔥🔥“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
- Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Center of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Personal Use’† 🔥In a motion to dismiss filed earlier this week, Meta denied claims that employees had downloaded pornography from Strike 3 Holdings to train its artificial intelligence models.
- How Tim Cook Evaded Disaster at Apple This Year† 🔥The CEO was facing risks from Trump’s tariffs, Google litigation and the AI craze. He turned to his playbook and now the iPhone maker is worth $4 trillion.
- The GoLaxy Documents 🔥The GoLaxy Documents: Inside One Chinese Company’s AI-Driven Influence Machine A Vanderbilt Institute of National Security archive detailing how state-aligned firm GoLaxy harvests data, builds precisi...
- These 22-Year-Olds Are Now The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires 🔥With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires ever.
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.
- Political Fair Use† 🔥🔥During election season, politicians and political campaigns often use pop culture or iconic works, such as viral memes or popular songs, to help convey their po ...
- 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 ...
- The Financial Consequences of Legalized Sports Gambling† Following a 2018 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, 38 states have legalized sports gambling. We study how this policy has impacted consumer finan ...
- A New Satanic Panic† A broad backlash to LGBTQ visibility and equality has emerged in recent years. Its conservative proponents have asserted that queer people are Satanic, calle ...
- When the Executive Has Unclean Hands† Those who come into equity must come with clean hands. But what happens when it is the executive who seeks equitable relief? This Essay argues that the unclean-
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.
- Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Scheherazade: Evaluating Chain-of-Thought Math Reasoning in LLMs with Chain-of-Problems† Benchmarks are critical for measuring Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning capabilities. Some benchmarks have even become the de facto indicator of such capabilities. However, as LLM reasoning capabil...
- Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing Large language models sometimes produce structured, first-person descriptions that explicitly reference awareness or subjective experience. To better understand this behavior, we investigate one theor...
- Ai Makes You Smarter, But None the Wiser: The Disconnect between Performance and Metacognition Optimizing human-AI interaction requires users to reflect on their performance critically, yet little is known about generative AI systems' effect on users ...
- From Replications to Revelations: Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference† Analysing the Stata regression commands from 4,420 reproduction packages of leading economic journals, we find that, among the 40,571 regressions specifying heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors, ...
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)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Denys Beecher (@dbeecher.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) (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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