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.
- Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract 🔥🔥🔥Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics company ...
- Video: Dog Is Rescued by Helicopter After Week in Wilderness 🔥🔥🔥Strangers funded a private helicopter search to rescue a dog stranded for seven days in the New Zealand bush. The animal was lost after its owner fell from a cliff.
- Trump Ousts Attorney General Pam Bondi 🔥🔥🔥At the Justice Department, Bondi tried to deliver on the president’s priorities but ultimately failed to appease him.
- Opinion | Trump’s Fixation on This Phrase Reveals Something About the War in Iran 🔥🔥🔥
- Bondi’s Firing Is Actually Good News 🔥🔥🔥With the ouster of Pam Bondi, the Senate gets a do-over in confirming an attorney general. Let’s hope it demands one who won’t thumb her nose at the independence the Department of Justice has enjoyed ...
- Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan 🔥If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...
- The Women Who Believe Women Should Lose the Right to Vote 🔥
- Trump Budget to Frame Midterms With Defense Boost, Domestic Cuts 🔥President Donald Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will frame his party’s midterm election message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cut...
- Iran Is Skeptical About Diplomacy for Now, U.S. Intelligence Says 🔥
- UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying 🔥Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units ...
- Thames Water ‘close to deal that would spare it Ofwat fines until 2030’ 🔥Offer reportedly put forward by creditors hoping to save struggling firm from being renationalised temporarily ...
- Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders 🔥
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.
- An Inadvertent Release 🔥🔥🔥🔥Judge Aileen Cannon forbade it.
- Pam Bondi Always Knew This Day Was Coming 🔥Trump fired Pam Bondi, apparently on Wednesday night, before addressing the country about the war in Iran.
- Appealing Liam Ramos DOJ filed a notice of appeal on Wednesday, signaling that it will try to undo a federal judge’s order that requires the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos, whose photo put a human face on Trump’s mass d...
- When the Nation’s Top Lawyer Treats Ethics as Optional How a decade of ethical evasion paved the way for Pam Bondi’s partisan performance ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 341. 4/2/26 … Pam Bondi was fired today AG, with Deputy AG Todd Blanche taking over as interim AG.
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.
- 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 ...
- Perplexity AI Machine Accused of Sharing Data With Meta, Google Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in violation of California privacy laws...
- 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 Missouri's child sexual abuse statute.
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 Hopeless Case For Birthright Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment Did Not Touch the Status of the Children of Illegal Aliens and Temporary Visitors to the United States 🔥🔥 The conventional wisdom in the courts and the academy is that the children of illegal aliens or temporary visitors ...
- 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 ...
- Hallucinated Legal Presentations in Civil Trial Courts Increasingly hallucinated legal presentations are being discovered and sanctioned in U.S. federal and state civil trial courts. Such presentations encompa ...
- Separation of Copyright Powers The United States Copyright Office’s multifarious roles in the U.S. copyright system have long prompted uncertainty about its position among the branches of the ...
- Arts Tax Policy: Democracy or Plutocracy? The United States National Endowment for the Arts' budget in 2024 was $207 million; in the same year the United States spent roughly between $2 and $3.35 ...
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.
- The Illusion of Understanding: How Middle-Schoolers Fail to Regulate Inquiry with ChatGPT in a Science Task 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative AI (GenAI) tools allow for effortless task completion, potentially fostering cognitive and metacognitive laziness in students. While surveys indicate widespread GenAI use among students as ...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task 🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- 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, ...
- Bioinspired123D: Generative 3D Modeling System for Bioinspired Structures 🔥ArXiv link for Bioinspired123D: Generative 3D Modeling System for Bioinspired Structures ...
- 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† 🔥
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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