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.
- Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says 🔥🔥🔥🔥Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions ...
- Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants 🔥🔥🔥
- Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America 🔥🔥A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland ...
- Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe 🔥🔥The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.
- C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself† 🔥🔥
- Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias 🔥🔥Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.
- ‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south 🔥Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics ...
- Update from Glenn Thrush 🔥
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 Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote 🔥🔥🔥The U.S.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 224. 10/7/25 🔥… AG Pam Bondi had a heated and contentious hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee where she refused to answer questions, made personal attacks against Democratic senators, and got extrem...
- Portland And Beyond† 🔥This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.
- Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.
- October 7, 2025 The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.
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.
- The incredible arrogance of OpenAI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win ...
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused of years of sexual abuse by sister in lawsuit† 🔥🔥The federal civil lawsuit filed in St. Louis by Ann Altman says the abuse began when she was a toddler and lasted for nine years. Sam Altman denies the allegations.
- OpenAI's Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns† 🔥In a video that went viral, a clip shows Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, raising copyright concerns.
- Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report† 🔥Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.
- Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone 🔥The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.
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.
- Rule or Reason? The Role of Balancing in Antitrust Law 🔥🔥Antitrust law has two basic ways of analyzing conduct alleged to be anticompetitive. Some conduct is viewed as so inherently pernicious that it is deemed i ...
- The Appellate Void 🔥What would it actually look like for the executive branch to defy a court order? The standard picture involves a dramatic confrontation between the President an ...
- Nix v. Hedden 🔥In the study of American statutory interpretation, Nix v. Hedden (1893) exemplifies the primacy of ordinary meaning. The Court famously held that, in a tariff a ...
- Razing the Patent Bar† 🔥Innovation is vital to economic prosperity, and lawmakers consequently strive to craft patent laws that efficiently promote the discovery and commercialization ...
- Fully-automated free speech-killing robots are incompatible with European and UK fundamental rights† In the UK, the communications services regulator, Ofcom, has issued for consultation proposed guidance to user-to-user (U2U) platforms and search engines ...
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.
- Do AI Models Perform Human-like Abstract Reasoning Across Modalities?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥OpenAI's o3-preview reasoning model exceeded human accuracy on the ARC-AGI benchmark, but does that mean state-of-the-art models recognize and reason with the abstractions that the task creators inten...
- Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning† 🔥🔥🔥One of the most striking features of Large Language Models (LLM) is their ability to learn in context. Namely at inference time an LLM is able to learn new patterns without any additional weight updat...
- Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) is a novel approach using two small neural networks recursing at different frequencies. This biologically inspired method beats Large Language models (LLMs) on hard ...
- Evolution Strategies at Scale: LLM Fine-Tuning Beyond Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for down-stream tasks is a critical step in the AI deployment pipeline. Reinforcement learning (RL) is arguably the most prominent fine-tuning meth...
- Internal World Models as Imagination Networks in Cognitive Agents What is the computational objective of imagination? While classical interpretations suggest imagination is useful for maximizing rewards, recent findings challenge this view. In this study, we propose...
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)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tormented🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Simon Cox (@simonfrcox.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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