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.
- Private Autopsy Shows Renee Good Was Shot at Least 3 Times, Lawyers Say 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
- TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga
- Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say (Gift Article) Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
- We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
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.
- Breaking the Fourth Amendment 🔥🔥🔥Last night, we learned from a report in the Associated Press that ICE, contrary to longstanding Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, is taking the position that it can enter people’s homes without a judici...
- Don’t Take the Bait 🔥In the time of Trump, “Don’t take the bait” is a rule that’s almost as important as “Do not obey in advance.”
- Urgent News Update: Families Warned as ICE Sends Flyers Seeking to Provide "Food Assistance" as Possible Trap Good evening, everyone, and thank you for being here.
- Important Update: ICE Begins Detaining Children and Using Them as "Bait" to Detain Family Members as Constitutional Concerns Emerge Good morning, everyone.
- January 22, 2026 Vice President J.D.
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.
- Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥John Jacquez successfully managed a mental illness for years, he says. Then ChatGPT reinforced delusions, spiraling him into "AI psychosis."
- Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms† 🔥🔥🔥Silicon Valley’s battle against AI regulation is already shaping the next US election cycle.
- Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.† 🔥🔥In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...
- Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court 🔥Millions likely harmed by Grok-edited sex images as X advertisers shrugged.
- Claude’s new constitution† 🔥Late last year Richard Weiss found something interesting while poking around with the just-released Claude Opus 4.5: he was able to talk the model into regurgitating a document which was …
- Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity 🔥The model’s new “hard constraints” prohibit child sexual abuse material, harmful cyberweapons, and more.
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 Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship† 🔥🔥This essay is a call to eliminate the de facto requirement that a law review article conclude with a list of actionable and feasible prescriptions, usually law ...
- Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union 🔥Many of Jonathan Gienapp’s core arguments in his outstanding new book, Against Constitutional Originalism, are well-taken, and they represent imp ...
- Youth Privacy's Constitutional Reckoning† 🔥Youth privacy law today shares the logics and pathologies of the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence about parental rights over children. We argue that this reli ...
- Legalizing Cannabis: Implications for Child Maltreatment† 🔥Cannabis is the most used illicit drug in the United States. Though cannabis possession and consumption are prohibited federally, states are increasingly implem ...
- Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI† This essay is a short response to Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's article "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI" (forthcoming University of Chi ...
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.
- Shifting norms in scholarly publications: trends in readability, objectivity, authorship, and AI use† 🔥🔥Academic and scientific publishing practices have changed significantly in recent years. This paper presents an analysis of 17 million research papers published since 2000 to explore changes in author...
- Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI† 🔥🔥This essay is a short response to Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's article "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI" (forthcoming University of Chi ...
- The Spatial Blindspot of Vision-Language Models 🔥Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their ability to capture spatial relationships remains a blindspot. Current VLMs are typically built with contrastive language-image pretrainin...
- How AI Destroys Institutions 🔥Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies ...
- 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...
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)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin (@justinlawguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) (@shengokai.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.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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