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.
- Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Democrats press for expanding inquiry into Caribbean boat strike 🔥🔥Republican leaders have neither ruled out nor committed to launching a fuller investigation after revelations that U.S. forces killed two survivors of the attack.
- Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship 🔥
- Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists 🔥The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
- BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff 🔥Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees ...
- Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK 🔥Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago ...
- ‘Civilisational erasure’: US strategy document appears to echo far-right conspiracy theories about Europe 🔥Official text, signed by Donald Trump, outlines plan to ‘cultivate resistance’ in EU nations to their ‘current trajectory’
- Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in $83 billion cash-stock deal 🔥Largest streaming network says it will purchase Warner Bros.’ studios and streaming assets after winning a bidding war with Comcast and Paramount.
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.
- Birthright citizenship, firing powers, the National Guard, and Trump's made-up "peace prize" 🔥🔥A Trump era Friday in December is not a normal Friday in December.
- December 5, 2025 🔥Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 264. 12/5/25 🔥… The J6 pipe bomber suspect arrested yesterday has reportedly confessed to authorities that he is a Trump supporter who believed that the 2020 election was stolen.
- NEWS: Supreme Court Poised to Gut Birthright Citizenship and Major Epstein Files Are About to Drop 🔥Supreme Court considers gutting birthright citizenship. Major Epstein files drop is coming. Senate Republicans abandon Pete Hegseth. An important update.
- NEWS: Trump Grows Angry as Media Intensifies Focus on His Health, Frequent Drowsiness, and Noted Cognitive Slips 🔥Trump grows angry over coverage about his inability to stay awake during meetings. Patel orders agents to escort his girlfriend's friends home after night out. An important news update this morning.
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.
- Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom† 🔥🔥🔥🔥PLUS: Artists fight for an AI transparency law in the belly of the beast, a Spotify mass deletion event, and an interview with a top video games journalist about AI and labor.
- New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work 🔥🔥Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
- From the Lawyertalk community on Reddit† 🔥Explore this post and more from the Lawyertalk community ...
- The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 2. ChatGPT, OpenAI and Cyberstalking.† 🔥oncerns about OpenAI leader Sam Altman pushing past employee and safety experts’ concerns have only intensified after numerous lawsuits have alleged that Altman’s disregard led to the death of seve…
- OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case† OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times and other news outlets, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.
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.
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition 🔥🔥 In the process of bulldozing the unitary executive theory, scholars have made several seemingly unrelated discoveries. First, "judicial&quo ...
- The Supreme Court and the 117th Congress 🔥If the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor is confirmed before the 2020 presidential election or in the post-election lame-duck period, and if Democrat ...
- The Forgotten Fundamental Right to Free Movement There is a powerful fundamental right hiding in plain sight: the fundamental right to free movement. This right goes beyond the consistently acknowledged—though ...
- Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Replace Law Professors?† In the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant technical advances, such that legal-advocacy organizations are increasin ...
- Introducing the A2AJ's Canadian Legal Data: An Open-Source Alternative to CanLII for the Era of Computational Law The Access to Algorithmic Justice project (A2AJ) is an open-source alternative to the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII). At a moment when technology ...
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.
- Pushing Tensor Accelerators Beyond MatMul in a User-Schedulable Language† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Tensor accelerators now represent a growing share of compute resources in modern CPUs and GPUs. However, they are hard to program, leading developers to use vendor-provided kernel libraries that suppo...
- Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Replace Law Professors?† In the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant technical advances, such that legal-advocacy organizations are increasin ...
- Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited...
- Rethinking Approximate Gaussian Inference in Classification In classification tasks, softmax functions are ubiquitously used as output activations to produce predictive probabilities. Such outputs only capture aleatoric uncertainty. To capture epistemic uncert...
- Network of Theseus (like the ship) ArXiv link for Network of Theseus (like the ship)
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)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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