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.
- As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? 🔥🔥🔥Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexual assault. Then the world moved on, and left her behind.
- Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for group of transgender service members 🔥🔥The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to force them out with no retirement benefits, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
- Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops 🔥🔥The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
- Trump Plans to Send Immigrant Detainees to Notorious Louisiana Prison 🔥Once known as the bloodiest prison in the country, Angola is a maximum security facility with a dark history—and a popular prison rodeo.
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.
- How Did We Arrive at this Redistricting Mess? The Supreme Court, Of Course 🔥🔥🔥“Is This How American Democracy is Supposed to Work?”
- There Was No Trump Pivot Towards Ukraine 🔥He Has Protected Putin Well And Might Even Have Zelensky/Ukraine In A Trap ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 187. 8/7/25 🔥… I predicted that Phase 2 of Trump’s attempt to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 presidential election was going to be a scam to redo the census mid-decade.
- Substack Live with Alabama Congressman Shomari Figures 🔥A recording from Joyce Vance's live video ...
- August 7, 2025 At 7:22 this morning, President Donald J.
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.
- Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
- Leaked ChatGPT Conversations Show People Asking the Bot to Do Some Dirty Work† 🔥Some questions should not be answered.
- States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear† All 50 states have introduced AI-related legislation this year.
- Arizona Supreme Court turns to AI-generated 'reporters' to deliver news Communications Director Alberto Rodriguez said he's not worried about them taking his job: “We still have to work with the bench to make sure that we’re getting accurate information.”
- How states are placing guardrails around AI in the absence of strong federal regulation With a potential ban of state regulation of AI soundly defeated, states are continuing to take the lead on protecting people from the technology’s potential harms – for now.
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.
- Your First Case Brief: Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy as a Guide 🔥🔥I've edited this classic Internet Law case for an orientation course at the University of Akron School of Law. It’s designed to help incoming students learn how ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment† 🔥Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- AI-Enabled Decision-Support Systems in the Joint Targeting Cycle: Legal Challenges, Risks, and the Human(e) Dimension† 🔥As artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies become increasingly integrated into military targeting operations, the legal, ethical, and operati ...
- Legal Personhood for Artificial Intelligences Could an artificial intelligence become a legal person? As of today, this question is only theoretical. No existing computer program currently possesses the sor ...
- Judicial Selection: Ideology Versus Character† Part I of Judicial Selection: Ideology versus Character sets the stage for an argument that character and not political ideology should be the primary factor i ...
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.
- A Generative AI Primer for Law Students 🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative artificial intelligence tools are permitted and encouraged in my classes. Legal professionals are already using them, and the expectation is that AI ...
- Innovation or Infringement? Generative AI and the Potential for Exclusionary Abuse under Article 102 TFEU Key Points: • The integration of generative AI powered features into large online platforms raises novel questions pertaining to abuse ...
- Thinking Machines: Mathematical Reasoning in the Age of LLMs Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable abilities in structured reasoning and symbolic tasks, with coding emerging as a particular area of strength. This success has sparked growing interes...
- Goedel-Prover-V2: Scaling Formal Theorem Proving with Scaffolded Data Synthesis and Self-Correction We introduce Goedel-Prover-V2, a series of open-source language models that set a new state-of-the-art in automated theorem proving. Built on the standard expert iteration and reinforcement learning p...
- A Comparative Study of Neurosymbolic AI Approaches to Interpretable Logical Reasoning General logical reasoning, defined as the ability to reason deductively on domain-agnostic tasks, continues to be a challenge for large language models (LLMs). Current LLMs fail to reason deterministi...
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)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess Miers 🦝 (@jmiers230.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Q. Barrett (@johnqbarrett.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Neil Lewis, Jr. (@neillewisjr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Free Palestine and Protect Trans Kids (@leftistlawyer.com) (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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