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.
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Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- DOJ Enters a New, Even More Aggressive Phase 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The department is growing bolder yet, cutting legal corners in service of getting President Trump the headlines—and revenge—he wants.
- Reform frontbench promotes JCB’s pothole machine after firm’s £200,000 donation 🔥🔥🔥🔥Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro ...
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: Labour minister says government needs to tackle online 'breeding ground' of antisemitism† 🔥🔥🔥Shortly, we'll also hear from Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Green Party leader Zack Polanski ahead of next week's elections.
- ‘This is just disarray’: alarm inside Pentagon after Hegseth staff purges 🔥Insiders portray defense secretary as increasingly isolated after officers with impeccable reputations forced out ...
- In Mississippi, a Democrat Challenges the Senator Who Blocked His Judgeship
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.
- Norway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy Paradox 🔥🔥🔥🔥The electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote ...
- The Fifth Circuit would like to run the United States The far-right federal appeals court and the district court judges below them are taking actions to control and influence what happens outside of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 362. 5/3/26 … Trump posted a lengthy announcement on Truth Social on Sunday afternoon announcing that the US will commence a mission to escort ships out of the Strait of Hormuz while warning Iran not to launch an...
- The Week Ahead May 3, 2026 ...
- Major Good News: Rape Kit Reform Reaches all 50 States, Kids Hailed as Heroes for Saving Bus, Building Real Community on Press Freedom Day 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.
- Chinese Court Rules Firms Can’t Lay Off Workers on AI Grounds† 🔥🔥A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilize the domestic labor market with a global race to develop AI technologies.
- The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with Robots† 🔥🔥Chinese courts ruled AI adoption can't justify firing workers, forcing tech companies to budget for expensive transitions that could increase global gadget prices.
- How ChatGPT conversations became evidence in criminal investigations | CNN 🔥🔥As the law stands now, your AI conversations can find their way from a computer into the courtroom.
- Elon Musk went to court. The judge wasn’t amused.† 🔥🔥Elon Musk’s outsize reputation, provocative remarks and his friction with a federal judge have dominated the trial in his case against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
- ‘Skywalker turned Darth Vader’: Galloway on Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit | CNN 🔥NYU professor Scott Galloway weighs in on the escalating feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, arguing the real issue isn’t personality but the urgent need for AI regulation.
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.
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing† 🔥“Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
- Written Statement of Nikolas Bowie to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, June 30, 2021† This testimony to President Joe Biden's Commission on the Supreme Court makes two arguments against the U.S. Supreme Court's power to invalidate federal le ...
- Legal Paternalism: On Mandates, Nudges, Boosts, and Laissez-Faire Is legal paternalism legitimate? Might it increase welfare? When would it compromise autonomy in some impermissible way? The massive recent outpouring of empiri ...
- The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution Part I of this Article describes advances in encryption technology that are increasing personal privacy, particularly electronic privacy, but reducing the U.S.
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 Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights† 🔥🔥As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderatio...
- HG-DAgger: Interactive Imitation Learning with Human Experts Imitation learning has proven to be useful for many real-world problems, but approaches such as behavioral cloning suffer from data mismatch and compounding error issues. One attempt to address these ...
- Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling The success of today's large language models (LLMs) depends on the observation that larger models perform better. However, the origin of this neural scaling law, that loss decreases as a power law wit...
- Loss Landscape Degeneracy and Stagewise Development in Transformers Deep learning involves navigating a high-dimensional loss landscape over the neural network parameter space. Over the course of training, complex computational structures form and re-form inside the n...
- Symbolic Execution Meets Multi-LLM Orchestration: Detecting Memory Vulnerabilities in Incomplete Rust CVE Snippets This paper presents a system combining symbolic execution (KLEE) with a 4-agent multi-LLM architecture for detecting memory vulnerabilities in Rust unsafe code. A central challenge we address is the incomplete-code problem: CVE database entries provide only isolated code snippets that lack struct...
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)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg "86 47" Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Human Garbage Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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