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.
- Joseph Duggar of ‘19 Kids and Counting’ Faces Child Sex Abuse Charges 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it ...
- Nigel Farage stops accepting Cameo requests after revelations about his use of platform 🔥🔥Reform leader ‘unavailable’ on service after Guardian investigation unearths clips of him repeating extremist slogans ...
- Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training 🔥Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its artificial intelligence models.
- Trump’s Meme Coin Rallies as Investors Chase Mar-a-Lago Invites 🔥The price of President Trump’s meme coin surged more than 50% in 24 hours after its official website and X account said the coin’s top 297 holders would be [invited to an exclusive conference and gala...
- The DOJ Isn’t Enforcing the Law. It’s Protecting the President 🔥The Department of Justice in President Donald Trump’s second term has sometimes been referred to as the president’s personal law firm. But that characterization is unfair to law firms. Although privat...
- Middle East crisis live: Israeli officials push back on US claim that Trump knew nothing about gasfield attack 🔥Three Israeli officials tell Reuters that the US actually helped coordinate Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gasfield ...
- British schoolgirl stranded in Denmark after return flight blocked over UK border rules 🔥Exclusive: Hanne, 16, from Sussex, was not allowed to board flight to London after weekend in Copenhagen ...
- Exclusive: Iran attack wipes out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says 🔥Iranian attacks have knocked out 17% of Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, Qatar...
- Stopping gas dictating UK energy price could cut bills by £200, thinktank says 🔥Iran war has increased gas price, with effects on UK energy bills that could be avoided, Common Wealth says ...
- Ban corporate donations to UK political parties to protect elections, says thinktank 🔥CenTax warns bill under debate in parliament has ‘easily exploitable’ loopholes and will not prevent foreign interference ...
- Labour MPs threaten vote to show opposition to Mahmood's migration plans 🔥Opponents are considering using parliamentary procedure to force a vote to highlight their concerns.
- Trump’s Handpicked Arts Commission Approves Gold Coin With His Face on It 🔥
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.
- Jury Finds Afroman Songs Mocking Ohio Cops Too Hilarious to Be Illegal 🔥🔥Here is what happens when cops cross a professional entertainer with plenty of time, a sizable social media following, a sense of humor, and a smooth baritone ...
- March 19, 2026 🔥After yesterday’s revelation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is blocking the release of a memo related to a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and 14 co-con...
- Thursday Night Update: More Major Epstein News, UN Makes Possible War Crimes Allegations, No End in Sight for DHS Shutdown 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 331. 3/19/26 … Trump during his meeting with Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office: Q - “Why didn't you tell allies about the war before attacking Iran?
- Major Update: Impeachment Push Against Bondi Intensifies as Pentagon Seeks $200B, MAGA Fractures Over Iran, and Mystery Drones Trigger Security Fears Good morning everyone.
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.
- Draft AI Framework to Replace State Laws Released by Senate (1) 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Senate has released a draft national framework to replace state laws on artificial intelligence and promote the technology’s development while minimizing risks to Americans.
- The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths 🔥🔥After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.
- The DOGE Depos: A Blueprint for Congressional DOGE Hearings† 🔥DOGE’s testimony and its virality should serve as a blueprint for Democratic oversight efforts.
- The Right Remedy in the Anthropic Case The government can stop buying from Anthropic anytime it wants. It just can't bypass the procurement system Congress built to do it.
- To Catholic thinkers, Pentagon’s AI demands violate ‘human dignity’ As Pope Leo warns about artificial intelligence, Catholic scholars are wading into the government’s legal battle with Anthropic.
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.
- A Roadmap for a Monopolization Case Against Google: Monopsony Power and AI Overviews† 🔥 Google’s integration of AI-generated “Overviews” into general search marks a structural shift in how information is produced, distributed, and monetiz ...
- Denaturalization's Missing Limit† Civil denaturalization has become a bipartisan tool of punishment and deterrence. The government has used the civil justice system to strip citizenship from ...
- Human Rights Law: Relevant or Redundant in Regulating AI? AI poses serious risks to essentially all human rights. This chapter examines whether the existing human rights framework is still suitable to address the trans ...
- The 'Article of Manufacture' in 1887 One of the most important questions in contemporary design patent law is how to interpret the phrase “article of manufacture” in 35 U.S.C. § 289. While there ha ...
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.
- AI and Blackness: Towards moving beyond bias and representation 🔥🔥🔥In this paper, we argue that AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed...
- Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons on autonomous learning from cognitive science 🔥🔥We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition. The proposed framework integrate...
- WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents ArXiv link for WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents ...
- Flip Distance of Triangulations of Convex Polygons / Rotation Distance of Binary Trees is NP-complete Flips in triangulations of convex polygons arise in many different settings. They are isomorphic to rotations in binary trees, define edges in the 1-skeleton of the Associahedron and cover relations i...
- ArXiv, the pioneering preprint server, declares independence from Cornell As an independent nonprofit, it hopes to raise funds to cope with exploding submissions and “AI slop”
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)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.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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