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 Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics 🔥🔥🔥
- Call off King's US state visit over Iran war, urge Lib Dems 🔥🔥🔥The party says the planned trip should be scrapped after Donald Trump's criticism of the UK's response to the war.
- Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row 🔥🔥🔥Private equity group EQT to take 42% stake as supplier faces scrutiny over environmental record and CEO’s pay ...
- Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America 🔥🔥🔥
- State Dept. Said to Order Diplomats in Saudi Arabia to Leave 🔥🔥
- Hip-Hop Icons Tell Justices That Texas Turned Rap Lyrics Into a Death Warrant 🔥🔥
- F.B.I. Subpoenas Records in Arizona in Expansion of 2020 Voting Inquiry 🔥🔥
- Two Toronto-Area Synagogues Are Struck by Gunfire 🔥🔥
- Alexander Brothers Found Guilty on All Counts in Sex-Trafficking Trial 🔥
- Opinion | Your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society 🔥Edmund Burke would have had thoughts about the consumption of that vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew.
- Oil prices dip as Trump says Iran war is 'ahead of schedule' and will end 'very soon' 🔥After surging above $100 a barrel on Monday, oil is now closer to $90. Trump also says he will hit Iran ...
- Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote 🔥Leader of rebel group says there is deep concern within Society of Labour Lawyers about courts and tribunals bill ...
- Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates 🔥The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
- Trump Insists ‘I Have a Plan’ as Oil Prices Surge on Iran War 🔥President Donald Trump signaled the US war on Iran could be ending soon, saying the operation was ahead of schedule as he confronted mounting pressures on the 10th day of the Iran war with oil prices ...
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.
- A Night Off With Chickens 🔥🔥I’ve had lots of travel and lots of travel delays in the last week, so I’m going to take a night off now that I’m safely back home, and get a little extra sleep.
- Procurement, Capacity and Soverignity 🔥When your contractors are also your enemy ...
- The Week Ahead 🔥March 8, 2026 ...
- Terrible tragedies are coming. And the Republican Party owns them. 🔥Trump has thrown America into financial crisis, expanding war, and a surging terror threat. The only good news is that he's all-but-guaranteed Republicans will lose in November.
- March 9, 2026 🔥It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it, knock out the leaders he didn’t like, and hope the Iranian people would rise up and put in place new leaders he could deal w...
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.
- Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work 🔥🔥🔥About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign ...
- The Campaign to Take Down Alex Bores Is Just the Beginning† 🔥🔥A leading AI industry-backed Super PAC is targeting a pro-regulation candidate — and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with.
- OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government 🔥🔥Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
- The War on Anthropic: Pretextual Designation and Unlawful Punishment 🔥The Trump admin’s action against Anthropic is barred by statutory limits, the First Amendment, and the Constitution’s bills of attainder.
- AI firm Anthropic sues US defense department over blacklisting 🔥Lawsuits come after Pentagon labeled Anthropic a ‘supply chain risk’, a decision the company says is unlawful ...
- Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System† 🔥This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick.
- #1 in Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (N.D. Cal., 3:26-cv-01996) – CourtListener.com 🔥COMPLAINT for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405, receipt number ACANDC-21731347.). Injunction against the US government/official or APA vacatur requested. Fil...
- Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation 🔥The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.
- Anthropic sues in federal court to reverse Trump administration's 'supply chain risk' designation 🔥The Pentagon last week formally designated San Francisco tech company a supply chain risk after an unusually public dispute over how its AI chatbot Claude could be used in warfare.
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.
- The Crisis of Appropriations Law† 🔥Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principles, approv ...
- Biden v. Nebraska: The New State Standing and the (Old) Purposive Major Questions Doctrine† 🔥Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion in Biden v. Nebraska does not sufficiently explain how Missouri has standing under established Article III doctrine, no ...
- Trade Secret Societies Trade secret law is premised on secrecy, though it has not yet contended with the individual and social effects of keeping and leaking secrets in the psychologi ...
- Voids of Constitutional Law† Although the U.S. Constitution has long been held out as a model for a particular type of constitutionalism, recent developments have drawn attention t ...
- Is Design Patent Examination Too Lax? To be patentable, a design is supposed to be novel, nonobvious, and ornamental. But every week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues patent for d ...
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.
- From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asymptomatic AI Harms for Dignified Human-AI Interaction 🔥🔥🔥🔥In the future of work discourse, AI is touted as the ultimate productivity amplifier. Yet, beneath the efficiency gains lie subtle erosions of human expertise and agency. This paper shifts focus from ...
- Generative AI & Fictionality: How Novels Power Large Language Models 🔥🔥Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the ...
- Towards Safer Social Media Platforms: Scalable and Performant Few-Shot Harmful Content Moderation Using Large Language Models† 🔥🔥The prevalence of harmful content on social media platforms poses significant risks to users and society, necessitating more effective and scalable content moderation strategies. Current approaches re...
- Knowledge without Wisdom: Measuring Misalignment between LLMs and Intended Impact 🔥LLMs increasingly excel on AI benchmarks, but doing so does not guarantee validity for downstream tasks. This study evaluates the performance of leading foundation models (FMs, i.e., generative pre-tr...
- Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem 🔥Agentic crafting requires LLMs to operate in real-world environments over multiple turns by taking actions, observing outcomes, and iteratively refining artifacts. Despite its importance, the open-sou...
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)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.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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