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.
- Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial 🔥🔥🔥The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.
- He Had a Full Ride at Duke—Until America Cut Him Off 🔥Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving behind empty seats and broken dreams.
- Overseas political funding capped and crypto donations blocked in blow to Reform UK 🔥Legislation subject to MPs’ approval but will be backdated due to urgency of threat to UK democracy, says minister ...
- Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a 'moral imperative' 🔥Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a "moral imperative" that people have access to the health services they need.
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 Trump Administration Admits to Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility.
- March 25, 2026 🔥Yesterday Trump told reporters that Iran “gave us a present and the present arrived today.
- Big Tech = Big Verdicts Landmark jury verdicts in New Mexico and California expose tech companies for their exploitation, addiction, and user deception.
- LIVE SOON: Independent media just got bigger, better, and stronger: a conversation with Scott McFarlane Starting Mar 25 at 8:30 PM EDT ...
- Eighth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, sides with Trump admin's mandatory immigration detention policy The dissent, from a Trump appointee, highlighted the extreme nature of the Trump admin's policy, which has been rejected by district court judges across the country.
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.
- Exclusive | OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions.
- Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 🔥🔥🔥🔥It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
- Sanders pitches bill to block data centers as populists seize on AI fears 🔥The legislation would pause the construction of new facilities until Congress passes regulations on artificial intelligence.
- Judge seems to doubt Pentagon's attempt to 'cripple' Anthropic is legal† 🔥As a hearing began, Judge Lin called Hegseth's actions toward Anthopic "troubling," though perhaps short of "corporate murder."
- Tonight in Your Rights: The bots of war† Anthropic sues to block Pete Hegseth's efforts to "destroy" the company's value because it insisted upon AI safety 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.
- Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner Violence† 🔥This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat ...
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models 🔥Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignme ...
- Fourth Amendment Anti-Theory Orin Kerr is America’s leading Fourth Amendment scholar. Yet despite his enormous influence and his nearly twenty-five years of being a law prof ...
- Suppressing Constitutional Law: Qualified Immunity and Non-precedential Opinions Federal appellate courts label most opinions as "non-precedent." The label is supposed to have no doctrinal impact. But in the context of qualified im ...
- Preserving Balance in the EU Digital Single Market: How Like Company Could Reframe Copyright and Innovation in the Generative AI Era This article analyses the Court of Justice of the European Union's first referral on generative AI and copyright, i.e. Case C-250/25 Like Company v. Google, whi ...
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.
- Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender† 🔥🔥🔥🔥People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We ...
- What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation
- Nonstandard Errors in AI Agents† We study whether state-of-the-art AI coding agents, given the same data and research question, produce the same empirical results. Deploying 150 autonomous Clau ...
- Slurry-as-a-Service: A Modest Proposal on Scalable Pluralistic Alignment for Nutrient Optimization Pluralistic alignment has emerged as a promising approach for ensuring that large language models (LLMs) faithfully represent the diversity, nuance, and conflict inherent in human values. In this work...
- Whose Knowledge Counts? Epistemic Capture and the Power to Define the Function of Data-Driven Health Despite significant investment, artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is suffering from a persistent failure to thrive, with the impact on clinicians, pati ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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