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.
- Former Fauci Adviser Indicted on Covid-Related Charges 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now 🔥🔥🔥Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.
- Some experts skeptical of second Comey indictment over seashell post 🔥🔥🔥Acting AG Todd Blanche said the case was investigated for months, adding "it's serious when you threaten the president."
- Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim 🔥Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views ...
- Video shows moment Secret Service officer fired at correspondents’ dinner suspect 🔥Surveillance footage reviewed by The Post provides the clearest picture yet of the seconds after the alleged gunman bolted through a checkpoint inside the hotel.
- Opinion | The Loneliness of Donald Trump 🔥
- Opinion | White Drivers Got a Warning. Latino Drivers Got Detained. 🔥
- In Backlash Against Tech in Schools, Parents Are Winning Rollbacks 🔥
- Lib Dems push for ban on MPs taking money from X, citing Maga threat 🔥Ed Davey attacks Reform calling it ‘Maga franchise’ and says Elon Musk funnels far-right ideas into UK via X ...
- Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024 🔥Reform leader changed his mind about standing as MP after gift from Thai-based crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne ...
- Hegseth Cites Falsehood to Defend His Firing of Senior Officers 🔥
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.
- SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act 🔥🔥🔥The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Dissemation of the Voting Rights Act ...
- SCOTUS guts what remained of the Voting Rights Act before taking on TPS termination case 🔥It was Alito's decision, but Roberts has sought Wednesday's VRA result for more than 40 years. In the arguments over temporary protected status, however, DOJ might have overstepped.
- A Dark New Chapter for American Democracy 🔥The End of Federal Voting Rights Protection as We Know It ...
- BREAKING: Congress Files Contempt Resolution for Pam Bondi, ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Quietly Back to Work, Large Economic Boycott Grows Good morning.
- April 29, 2026 I will have plenty to say about the Supreme Court’s decision today in Callais v.
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.
- SXSW Used AI-Powered Trademark Tool To Censor Dissent on Instagram† 🔥🔥🔥🔥“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company.”
- Victims allege OpenAI and Sam Altman are responsible for a mass shooting 🔥🔥🔥A new lawsuit underscores key questions about the Tumbler Ridge killer’s use of ChatGPT.
- Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court† 🔥🔥Every word she messaged her therapist... it all became public in court.
- School-shooting lawsuits accuse OpenAI of hiding violent ChatGPT users 🔥Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.
- Families sue OpenAI over Canadian mass shooter's use of ChatGPT 🔥The lawsuit claims OpenAI was negligent for failing to report the shooter to authorities after her account was flagged for "gun violence activity and planning."
- University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop 🔥ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
- Some Musk v. Altman Jurors Don't Like Elon Musk† 🔥Musk’s lawsuit challenges OpenAI’s evolution under Sam Altman. But during jury selection, several potential jurors voiced negative views of Musk himself.
- Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead† 🔥The long-famed AGI clause, which has for years dictated the future of the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, is officially dead.
- Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared† 🔥“Larry Page refused to speak to me ever again.”
- Live Updates: Elon Musk Says He Was ‘a Fool’ to Fund OpenAI 🔥
- Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI† 🔥The billionaire battle goes to court.
- Taylor Swift files to trademark her voice, likeness to ward off AI deepfakes 🔥Pop superstar Taylor Swift filed trademark applications for two audio clips and one image of herself in what a trademark attorney said is an attempt to protect her voice and likeness from deepfake videos and audio created by artificial intelligence.
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 Sixth Layer: The Legal Infrastructure for Physical Artificial Intelligence in China† 🔥🔥 This Article offers the first comprehensive study of how law serves as critical infrastructure for China’s development of physical artificial in ...
- The Evolving Global Standard of Corporate Criminal Liability and Lingering Questions About Corporate Ethos This Article explores the approaches to corporate criminal liability in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia and argues that both the United Sta ...
- What is the Standard of Proof for Guilty Pleas? Among those who study or practice in the American criminal system, it is well known that almost all criminal convictions are accomplished through guilt ...
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.
- Ask don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sycophancy, the tendency of large language models to favour user-affirming responses over critical engagement, has been identified as an alignment failure, particularly in high-stakes advisory and soc...
- 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...
- There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning† 🔥In this paper, we make the case that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging. By this we mean a theory which characterizes important properties and statistics of the training process, hidden ...
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance†
- The Sixth Layer: The Legal Infrastructure for Physical Artificial Intelligence in China† This Article offers the first comprehensive study of how law serves as critical infrastructure for China’s development of physical artificial in ...
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)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 8647 Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg "86 47" Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (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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