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.
- Syracuse Drops 84 Programs Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Birthright Con 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration 🔥🔥Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
- Opinion | Trump Will Lose the Birthright Citizenship Case. But in a Way, He’s Already Won. 🔥
- Trump Orders Federal Government to Create Eligible-Voter List 🔥The president’s order is likely to face a flood of legal challenges.
- Bomb Shelters and a Drone-Proof Roof: Trump Seeks to Justify Ballroom as Security Measure 🔥
- C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses 🔥
- Death of Rohingya refugee left in parking lot by US border agents ruled a homicide 🔥Nurul Amin Shah, 56, who was visually impaired, was left outside Buffalo Tim Hortons on cold night and later died ...
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.
- The Constitution Is Clear on Birthright Citizenship. The Question Is Whether the Court Will Be. 🔥🔥🔥Sometimes showing up is a mistake.
- Supreme Court likely to reject Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship 🔥As Trump sat on watching, Solicitor General John Sauer faced skeptical questions from almost all of the justices — including all three justices Trump appointed to the high court.
- Major Update: Republicans Cave on DHS Funding to end Shutdown, Trump to Seek Off Ramp to end Iran War, Trump Furious at Supreme Court 🔥Good evening everyone.
- BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service 🔥The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
- April 1, 2026 Today, for the first time in U.S.
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.
- Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-Generated Sexual Abuse Content† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.
- Client Alert: Emerging Litigation Risks in Financing AI Data Centers Boom† 🔥🔥
- Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent 🔥Developer issues copyright takedown request in bid to prevent competitors from cloning coding tool’s features ...
- GitHub - instructkr/claude-code: An independent Python feature port of Claude Code, entirely rewritting from scratch using oh-my-codex. Educational Purpose only.† 🔥An independent Python feature port of Claude Code, entirely rewritting from scratch using oh-my-codex. Educational Purpose only. - instructkr/claude-code ...
- AI headshot apps removed her hijab. A Berkeley Law researcher wants to know why. Mahwish Moazzam probes questions about AI bias, religious expression, representation, and human dignity in algorithmic systems ...
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.
- The Bizarro First Amendment† 🔥Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara: An Originalist Defense of Birthright Citizenship For nearly all of the first 235 years under the Constitution, the citizenship of every child born in the United States to alien parents, with immaterial exce ...
- The Right to Use Private Property† The right to use is a central element of property rights. But it is an under-analyzed aspect of the right to private property protected by the Takings Clause of ...
- 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 ...
- Raising the Threshold for Trademark Infringement to Protect Free Expression† The First Amendment right to free speech limits the scope of rights in trademark law. This Article discusses different types of thresholds in trademark infringe ...
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.
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignment strategies via RLHF, system prompts, ...
- The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world 🔥🔥The strong and continuous increase of AI-based services leads to the steady proliferation of AI data centres worldwide with the unavoidable escalation of their power consumption. It is unknown how thi...
- What can LLMs tell us about the mechanisms behind polarity illusions in humans? Experiments across model scales and training steps 🔥🔥I use the Pythia scaling suite (Biderman et al. 2023) to investigate if and how two well-known polarity illusions, the NPI illusion and the depth charge illusion, arise in LLMs. The NPI illusion becom...
- SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks 🔥🔥
- Evaluating Language Models for Harmful Manipulation 🔥Interest in the concept of AI-driven harmful manipulation is growing, yet current approaches to evaluating it are limited. This paper introduces a framework for evaluating harmful AI manipulation via ...
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)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.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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