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.
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Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥ECJ says law passed in 2021 is discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for new PM ...
- Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. 🔥🔥
- Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning 🔥🔥Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.
- ‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out 🔥An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
- U.S. Abruptly Rescinds Subpoenas It Had Just Issued in John Brennan Inquiry
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: Democrats Win Big in Virginia, Re-Draw the State's Congressional Maps 🔥🔥We have breaking news right now.
- Pay Later Grocery Loans are Surging 🔥🔥A new report shows that many Americans are using Buy Now Pay Later loans for everyday expenses like groceries, complete with late fees and credit reporting.
- The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche 🔥Another dark day for DOJ.
- Investigating the Good Guys 🔥DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.
- April 21, 2026 🔥There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus.
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.
- Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥Firm whose partners bill more than $2,000 per hour apologises to judge for software-driven errors in bankruptcy case ...
- AI hallucinated — and now an elite law firm is profusely apologizing to a federal judge 🔥🔥Sullivan & Cromwell apologized for AI hallucinations in a court filing. Another law firm spotted the mistakes.
- Florida AG launches criminal investigation into ChatGPT over FSU shooting 🔥🔥Florida's attorney general is launching a criminal investigation into the alleged role of ChatGPT in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year.
- This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright 🔥🔥Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
- Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI - Coda Story† 🔥His investment in Objection.ai points to a new model: private investigations, AI verdicts, and accountability mechanisms that operate outside democratic institutions.
- OpenAI Gets Florida Criminal Probe Over ChatGPT Role in Shooting 🔥Florida is sending criminal subpoenas to OpenAI, opening a novel investigation into whether a chatbot could be criminally liable for use in a mass shooting.
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.
- Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries† 🔥🔥Fingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigration enforc ...
- Reflecting on Human Rights in Higgs† 🔥In this article, we reflect upon three distinct human rights dimensions present in the Court of Appeal's judgment in Higgs v Farmor's School [2025] EWCA Civ 109 ...
- Are AI Model Weights Protected Speech Under the First Amendment? 🔥This paper explores whether model weights, the trained parameters of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, constitute protected expression under the First Amend ...
- Tackling the 'Fake' Without Harming the 'News': A Paper Series on Regulatory Responses to Misinformation† Around the world, an increasing number of governments are responding to the threat posed by misinformation by passing repressive criminal content restrictions p ...
- Brief of Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Inc., in Support of Respondent Brooke Lynette Girley† In 2021, Florida civil rights lawyer Jerry Girley represented a Florida doctor in a racial discrimination lawsuit against AdventHealth of Orlando in a jury tria ...
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.
- Agents of Chaos† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord access, file systems, a...
- Separating Geometry from Probability in the Analysis of Generalization 🔥🔥The goal of machine learning is to find models that minimize prediction error on data that has not yet been seen. Its operational paradigm assumes access to a dataset $S$ and articulates a scheme for ...
- The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Workflows† 🔥The rapid integration of large language models (LLMs) into everyday workflows has transformed how individuals perform cognitive tasks such as writing, programming, analysis, and multilingual communica...
- The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models We survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to "understand" language -- and the physical and social situations language enc...
- Are AI Model Weights Protected Speech Under the First Amendment? This paper explores whether model weights, the trained parameters of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, constitute protected expression under the First Amend ...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Indefinitely Extended Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.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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