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.
- Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob 🔥🔥🔥Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses ...
- ICE denies having a protester database. But a letter to Congress sheds more light 🔥🔥In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly-departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters.
- Exclusive | Jeanine Pirro’s Prosecutors Probe Big Banks for Alleged ‘Debanking’ 🔥🔥The U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. subpoenaed JPMorgan, Bank of America and others as part of a probe into alleged debanking.
- Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files 🔥🔥
- Unions snub Nigel Farage's invite to join Reform UK 🔥🔥The party leader says his "door is open" but the Unite union says he is "no friend of the workers".
- Video shows family’s car slowing before Israeli troops shot dead Palestinian baby 🔥Footage appears to contradict Israeli military’s account of killing of seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal in West Bank ...
- Vance Ties U.K. Stabbing Death to ‘Invasion of Migrants,’ Prompting Rebuke 🔥
- ‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast 🔥Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene ...
- Opinion | With Bill Pulte, Trump Is Sending a Dangerous Message 🔥
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.
- Major News: White House Held Secret Meetings to Protect Trump from Epstein Files, Trump Races to Save UFC Fight, Iran War to Restart 🔥🔥🔥Good morning, everyone.
- June 10, 2026 🔥Today a report from the Department of Labor showed that inflation in May hit its highest level since early 2023, reaching an annual rate of 4.2%, up from 3.8% in April.
- Important: Jarring Epstein-Trump Details Revealed, Major Epstein Testimony in Congress, Judges Refuse to Say Who Won in 2020, and More 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- LIVE SOON: Katie Phang's new court filing in her Epstein lawsuit against Todd Blanche exposes a colossal tactical blunder by Blanche! 🔥Starting Jun 10 at 8:30 PM EDT ...
- War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now 🔥We Will Rue The Day ...
- A White Seventeen-Year-Old in Texas Stabbed His Classmate to Death in a School Bathroom and Got Ten Years. Karmelo Anthony, Also Seventeen, Got Thirty-Five. 🔥They banned the cameras. They struck every qualified Black juror. They deliberated for three hours. They sentenced him to thirty-five years. They called it justice.
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.
- Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
- Ads in New York must now label AI-generated 'synthetic performers'† New York has implemented a law requiring advertisements featuring AI-generated people to clearly label them as “synthetic performers.”
- Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
- Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
- Nvidia AI Bubble Cooked by 2027, AMD Morale Leak, RDNA 5 Comeback | Ed Zitron | Broken Silicon 365† YouTube video by Moore's Law Is Dead ...
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 New Law of Viewpoint Discrimination† 🔥🔥🔥The prohibition against viewpoint discrimination is one of the oldest and most important principles of First Amendment law. But what it means to viewpo ...
- We the (Native) People?: How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S. Constitution 🔥The Constitution was written in the name of the “People of the United States.” And yet, many of the nation’s actual people were excluded from the document’s dra ...
- Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution The controversy over birthright citizenship in the United States and the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment has exposed two urgent needs in American constituti ...
- Can Federal Courts Strike Down Regulations That Turned Expired Patents into Permanent Monopolies?† Post-1970 federal regulations make it illegal to manufacture vehicles or machinery based on expired patents, effectively nullifying the Patent Clause's "li ...
- The American Legal System Indicted: The Troubling Story of the FTX Bankruptcy and Prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried† History will not be kind to the prosecutors, bankruptcy administrators, and federal judge who turned what might have been a routine corporate restructuring into ...
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.
- A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline 🔥🔥🔥🔥Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where...
- Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment 🔥ArXiv link for Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment ...
- Decision-Aware Memory Cards: Counterfactual-Inspired Context Selection and Compression for Tool-Using LLM Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for Decision-Aware Memory Cards: Counterfactual-Inspired Context Selection and Compression for Tool-Using LLM Agents ...
- PR-CAD: Progressive Refinement for Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with Large Language Models† 🔥The construction of CAD models has traditionally relied on labor-intensive manual operations and specialized expertise. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have inspired research into text-to-CAD generation. However, existing approaches typically treat generation and editing as disjoint tasks, limiting their practicality. We propose PR-CAD, a progressive refinement framework that unifies generation and editing for controllable and faithful text-to-CAD modeling. To support this, we curate a high-fidelity interaction dataset spanning the full CAD lifecycle, encompassing multiple CAD representations as well as both qualitative and quantitative descriptions. The dataset systematically defines the types of edit operations and generates highly human-like interaction data. Building on a CAD representation tailored for LLMs, we propose a reinforcement learning-enhanced reasoning framework that integrates intent understanding, parameter estimation, and precise edit localization into a single agent. This enables an "all-in-one" solution for both design creation and refinement. Extensive experiments demonstrate strong mutual reinforcement between generation and editing tasks, and across qualitative and quantitative modalities. On public benchmarks, PR-CAD achieves state-of-the-art controllability and faithfulness in both generation and refinement scenarios, while also proving user-friendly and significantly improving CAD modeling efficiency.
- Can Federal Courts Strike Down Regulations That Turned Expired Patents into Permanent Monopolies?† 🔥Post-1970 federal regulations make it illegal to manufacture vehicles or machinery based on expired patents, effectively nullifying the Patent Clause's "li ...
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) (promoted)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.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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