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.
- ‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Edward "Big Balls" Coristine's placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.
- Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Could the Third Time Be the Charm on Impeachment and Removal? 🔥🔥
- Justice Department’s Bove Is Too Dangerous to Be a Judge 🔥President Trump’s nominee for an appellate court judgeship played a pivotal role in dismissing New York Mayor Eric Adams’ bribery charges.
- RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.
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.
- What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803 🔥🔥🔥And Why it Matters Today ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 159. 6/26/25 … Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth gave an unhinged “press conference” this morning where he ranted and raved and angrily denounced the media for publishing a leaked DIA report which contradicted Trump’s a...
- June 26, 2025 This morning’s press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth featured an apparently angry Hegseth yelling at the media for contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that last weekend’s strik...
- NEWS: 911 Call Data Shows Human Rights Abuses at ICE Detention Facilities Across America 911 call data shows human rights abuses at ICE detention facilities, a U.S. Army veteran and purple heart recipient is forced to self deport, Trump claims CNN will fire reporters who disagree with him ...
- NEWS: The "Big Beautiful" Budget Bill is in Jeopardy as Chaos hits Republicans The Trump budget bill is in jeopardy in the Senate, islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani grow, another migrant dies in ICE custody, major Supreme Court decisions coming, and much more.
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.
- Tesla's robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators | TechCrunch† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Federal safety regulators have reached out to Tesla a day after the automaker began providing rides in its branded robotaxis in Austin.
- Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch† 🔥A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors' books.
- In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors U.S. District Judge William Alsup's ruling this week, in a case brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson last year, opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train their large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.
- Copyright Cases Should Not Threaten Chatbot Users’ Privacy Like users of all technologies, ChatGPT users deserve the right to delete their personal data. Nineteen U.S. States, the European Union, and a host of other countries already protect users’ right to d...
- Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we explore Disney and Universal's lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.
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.
- Private Enforcement at the Founding and Article II 🔥🔥Article II vests the executive power in the President. Yet Congress routinely empowers private plaintiffs, not just the President, to enforce public regulatory ...
- Roads to Nowhere in Four States: State and Local Governments in the Atlantic Southeast Facing Sea-Level Rise 🔥Coastal communities are becoming increasingly aware of the risks to local infrastructure from more frequent and severe flooding, more extreme storm surges, and ...
- Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship 🔥Ex parte Merryman is iconic. It is, arguably, the first major American case testing the scope of lawful military authority during war time. Not only during a w ...
- Intentionally Unintentional: GenAI Exceptionalism and the First Amendment
This paper challenges the assumption that courts should grant First Amendment protections to outputs from large generative AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemin ...
- Strategy and Tactics Critical international legal scholars have long grappled with the question of how to intervene in legal and political debates. In recent years the dominant tren ...
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.
- Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Game-Theoretic Attribution of Function of Neural Units† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Neural networks now generate text, images, and speech with billions of parameters, producing a need to know how each neural unit contributes to these high-dimensional outputs. Existing explainable-AI ...
- Agonistic Image Generation: Unsettling the Hegemony of Intention† 🔥🔥🔥Current image generation paradigms prioritize actualizing user intention - "see what you intend" - but often neglect the sociopolitical dimensions of this process. However, it is increasingly evident ...
- Search | arXiv e-print repository 🔥
- Red Teaming Large Language Models for Healthcare† We present the design process and findings of the pre-conference workshop at the Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (2024) entitled Red Teaming Large Language Models for Healthcare, which took...
- AutomataGPT: Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata† ArXiv link for AutomataGPT: Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata ...
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)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social)
- Bad Popehat With Evil Intentions (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.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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