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.
- Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Witkoff and Kushner to meet Putin to discuss ending war in Ukraine 🔥🔥🔥A leaked set of 28 U.S. draft peace proposals emerged last week.
- Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement 🔥🔥Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war ...
- After Decades in Combat, a SEAL Suddenly Comes Under Scrutiny 🔥
- Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years 🔥The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.
- DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now 🔥Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
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.
- Hocheffiziente Verbrenner, my ass: Physik, Ökonomie und das kulturelle Trostangebot 🔥🔥Warum Friedrich Merz‘ Verbrenner-Rettung an Sadi Carnot scheitert – und warum er sie uns trotzdem verkauft.
- NEWS: Trump and Hegseth Hit With First Human Rights Complaint for Deadly Extrajudicial Strikes in the Caribbean 🔥Good afternoon everyone.
- Bulletproof No More 🔥Pete Hegseth: “I watched that first strike live.
- Major Morning News Update 🔥Trump unleashes 160 Truth Social posts in overnight barrage, Hegseth caught lying over his involvement in the possible war crimes, publisher of Franklin the Turtle blasts Trump and Hegseth, and more!!
- Pardon the Corruption 🔥Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is actively encouraging through his pardons ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 262. 12/2/25 🔥… After posting a blizzard of deranged QAnon content, threats, and conspiracies on Truth Social past midnight last night, Trump was back at it again starting at 5:48 AM.
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.
- Big Tech's AI Power-Grab† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 1. Adam Raine’s Suicide.† 🔥OpenAI now faces scrutiny from multiple lawsuits alleging its software responded inappropriately resulting in deaths by self-harm. In one case, a suit alleges a minor killed themselves directly as …
- OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.
- What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more i...
- AI Chatbot Companies Should Protect Your Conversations From Bulk AI companies have a responsibility to their users to make sure the warrant requirement is strictly followed, to resist unlawful bulk surveillance requests, and to be transparent with their users ...
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.
- Ever Closer Union: Ever Present But Often Overlooked† 🔥🔥🔥The phrase "ever closer union" has been present in what are now the EU Treaties since 1957. This article presents a diagnosis of its role within the f ...
- One Decade, One Map: State Constitutional Limits on Mid-Decade Redistricting† In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court closed the federal courthouse doors to claims of partisan gerrymandering, effectively permitting states to engage in wh ...
- Knowing How to Know: Secondary Liability for Speech in Copyright Law† Contributory copyright infringement has long been based on whether the defendant, “with knowledge of the infringing activity,” induced, caused, or materially co ...
- Google Search and Antitrust's Remedial Goals A successful antitrust remedy should undo the effects of any antitrust violation that has served to increase prices, reduce output, or restrain innovation. The ...
- What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court Do judgment-aggregation paradoxes prompt social scientists to posit irreducible “group agents”? We test this claim using the U.S. Supreme Court’s exper ...
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.
- Introducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not Outcomes 🔥🔥🔥🔥The rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org...
- TALES: Text Adventure Learning Environment Suite 🔥Reasoning is an essential skill to enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with the world. As tasks become more complex, they demand increasingly sophisticated and diverse reasoning capabiliti...
- Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models ArXiv link for Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models ...
- Describe Anything Anywhere At Any Moment ArXiv link for Describe Anything Anywhere At Any Moment ...
- OSGym: Super-Scalable Distributed Data Engine for Generalizable Computer Agents ArXiv link for OSGym: Super-Scalable Distributed Data Engine for Generalizable Computer Agents ...
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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