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.
- ICE Agent Charged in Shooting of a Venezuelan Immigrant in Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump’s deal to drop suit against IRS creates $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ 🔥🔥The deal, laid out in a document signed by acting attorney general Todd Blanche, grants a commission broad authority to distribute the money, drawn from taxpayer dollars.
- How a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies 🔥
- Trump Administration Pushes Narrative of Christian Founding at Rally 🔥
- Justice Dept. Sets Up $1.8 Billion Fund That Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies 🔥
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.
- Live updates San Diego mosque shooting: 3 victims killed at Islamic Center, police say 🔥🔥🔥Follow here for live updates about reports of an active shooting situation at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
- May 18, 2026 🔥I have been traveling and tonight have hit the wall as I tried to write, so at this hour am opting for bed rather than trying to grind out today’s letter.
- Document: Read Trump's Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Frank Bisignano, the chief executive officer of the I.R.S., signed Monday's “settlement agreement.”
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 382. 5/18/26 … Trump and his criminal defense lawyer now AG Todd Blanche orchestrated the most corrupt and repulsive scheme in the history of the US government today, forcing hardworking, law-abiding taxpayers to ...
- Trump goes to China, without any cards It's enough to make the Nixon era seem like the good old days.
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.
- Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision.
- Jury Tosses Elon Musk’s Suit Against OpenAI And Sam Altman 🔥🔥🔥The jury unanimously found Musk sued OpenAI and Sam Altman after the statute of limitations had expired, tossing his claims.
- Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman The Musk v. Altman jury dismissed all charges due to the statute of limitations.
- Federal jury sides with OpenAI in feud with Elon Musk A federal jury has sided with OpenAI and its top executives in a feud with Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence’s development as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.
- Musk loses case against OpenAI | CNN Business Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday. A lawsuit he filed was barred by the statute of limitations, the jury found after about 90 mi...
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.
- "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse† 🔥🔥If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
- Never Send to Know on Whom the Boot Stomps; it Stomps on Thee 🔥This Essay was originally prepared as a lecture for the 2026 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review Symposium,
- Federal Hiring Dysfunction and the Self-Shrinking Skew 🔥 A half-century of remodeling agency workforces against corporate blueprints has hollowed out the civil service, enervated oversight, and facilitated the ...
- The Return of Neutrality Neutrality is caught in an inherent contradiction: On the one hand, it has been legally irrelevant for almost 100 years-the general prohibition of war and (late ...
- The Judgment Fund: America's Deepest Pocket & Its Susceptibility to Executive Branch Misuse Over the last thirty-five years, the United States government has paid out billions of dollars in settlements that have had no fiscal consequences for the agenc ...
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.
- LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations† 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
- Are we Doomed to an AI Race? Why Self-Interest Could Drive Countries Towards a Moratorium on Superintelligence† 🔥This paper uses game theory to argue that, contrary to the prevailing view, a moratorium on Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) can be in a state's self-interest. By formalizing trategic interactions b...
- Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions† One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
- ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author ...
- MeMo: Memory as a Model† Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across a wide range of tasks, but remain frozen after pretraining until subsequent updates. Many real-world applications require timely, domain-specific information, motivating the need for efficient mechanisms to incorporate new knowledge. In this paper, we introduce MeMo (Memory as a Model), a modular framework that encodes new knowledge into a dedicated memory model while keeping the LLM parameters unchanged. Compared to existing methods, MeMo offers several advantages: (a) it captures complex cross-document relationships, (b) it is robust to retrieval noise, (c) it avoids catastrophic forgetting in the LLM, (d) it does not require access to the LLM's weights or output logits, enabling plug-and-play integration with both open and proprietary closed-source LLMs, and (e) its retrieval cost is independent of corpus size at inference time. Our experimental results on three benchmarks, BrowseComp-Plus, NarrativeQA, and MuSiQue, show ...
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)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Not In Word List Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.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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