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.
- Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
- Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs 🔥🔥🔥
- Russian Oil Revenues Nearly Doubled in March 🔥🔥
- Vance Heckled in Antiwar Protest at Turning Point USA Event 🔥
- Streeting relaunches women’s health strategy to tackle ‘medical misogyny’ 🔥Health secretary says NHS is ‘failing women’ and pledges to end ‘gaslighting’ by doctors ...
- Trump media company drops lawsuit against the Guardian 🔥TMTG drops defamation claim over report that prosecutors were investigating payments received as possible money laundering ...
- Carney Suspends Gas Tax in Canada as War Drives Up Fuel Costs 🔥
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.
- So… what happens when the Attorney General gets fired 🔥🔥🔥The Florida Bar said it couldn’t act while Pam Bondi held federal power. That excuse ended today.
- Politics Disguised as Prosecution: DOJ Claims Biden's Administration Was Wrong To Prosecute Violence At Clinics 🔥And prosecutors get caught in the crossfire ...
- Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? 🔥Nazi Lies in Vance's America ...
- April 14, 2026 There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership on Sunday, April 12.
- "Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president" #ELB NPR: A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an ...
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.
- Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sam Altman's sister amended her civil lawsuit accusing the OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, after the judge said she could try pursuing her case under Missou...
- OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters† 🔥🔥The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
- Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia† 🔥🔥
- New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked† 🔥🔥Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight.
- The Trump Administration is Using BEAD Funds as a Cudgel. Is that Legal? 🔥The Trump Administration is threatening to withhold funds from states that lawfully regulate AI and broadband. Those threats are likely unlawful.
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 ...
- Anti-majoritarianism and Democracy: Effects of Judicial Review on Rights, Economic Growth, and Inequality *† We examine the effect of the most important anti-majoritarian institution-judicial review of constitutionality which empowers some courts to invalidate laws alr ...
- Lessons Learned From Global Responses To Criminal Abortion Laws† This Essay responds to After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion and abortion care in the United States by taking a ...
- Ban Cookie Banners: A Case Study in Tech Regulation Few experiences on the modern internet are as universally reviled as the cookie banner. They clutter websites with pop-ups, interrupt user flow, make informatio ...
- Parliamentary Constraints on Constitutional Review in the Supreme Court of Canada Since the adoption of the Charter, scholars have argued that Parliament defers to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on questions of constitutional law. This is ...
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.
- Can LLMs Produce Original Astronomy Research in a Semester? A Graduate Class Experiment† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We discuss the results of using large language models (LLMs) to conduct original scientific research in an unfamiliar subject area during the Fall 2025 semester. Students in a graduate astronomy and a...
- A mathematical theory of evolution for self-designing AIs† 🔥As artificial intelligence systems (AIs) become increasingly produced by recursive self-improvement, a form of evolution may emerge, with the traits of AI systems shaped by the success of earlier AIs ...
- The Divided States of Work Law: Regulating US Workplaces in the Age of AI† United States labor policy is notable for how little it constrains most employers: unlike many jurisdictions represented in this volume, “atwill” empl ...
- The Two-Stage Decision-Sampling Hypothesis: Understanding the Emergence of Self-Reflection in RL-Trained LLMs ArXiv link for The Two-Stage Decision-Sampling Hypothesis: Understanding the Emergence of Self-Reflection in RL-Trained LLMs ...
- Multi-User Large Language Model Agents ArXiv link for Multi-User Large Language Model Agents ...
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)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Weak On Nuclear Weapons Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.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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