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.
- NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Radiologists say ‘ballooning’ costs reflect staffing failures, forcing a reliance on lower-quality private scan reports ...
- Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim† 🔥🔥Reform UK leader claims ‘counter-espionage experts’ suggest state-sponsored hackers are behind disclosure of £5m gift ...
- Greek Lemon Potatoes Recipe • 5★ 🔥🔥For the dreamiest roasted potatoes — with creamy insides and very crispy outsides — follow this classic Greek method of roasting peeled potatoes in equal parts olive oil, lemon juice and chicken stock...
- Gov. Sherrill Demands Access to ICE Facility as Hunger Strike Widens 🔥🔥
- Trump’s Pressure Had Little Effect on Iran’s Terms for a Peace Deal 🔥🔥
- Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu is ... fine 🔥🔥The plot is predictable, the fight scenes are meh, but you can't beat the charm of that little green Grogu.
- Social media as bad for young people as smoking, top doctors say 🔥🔥The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says doctors should routinely check on screen time and social media use when seeing younger patients.
- Trump faces health questions ahead of another Walter Reed trip 🔥The president trumpets claims that he is in excellent health, but independent physicians say the White House hasn't answered key questions ahead of his third visit in 13 months.
- Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 🔥
- Rachel Reeves tells ministers to ‘buy British’ in four key industries 🔥Exclusive: Chancellor pushes for procurement of ships, steel, energy and AI to prioritise Britishness as well as cost ...
- Out of Gas, Cubans Cook With Charcoal and Wood to Survive 🔥
- Ian McEwan says pessimism ‘a bigger problem than climate change’ 🔥Speaking at Hay festival as UK breaks May heat record, author says optimism is a ‘moral duty’
- Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits 🔥
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.
- From Pardons to Payoffs 🔥🔥Trump and his faux-patriots ...
- Ken Paxton’s office offered a child molester ONE day in jail and NO sex offender registration. Donald Trump endorsed Paxton yesterday. 🔥🔥Paxton let a child abuser have ONE day in jail, skip the sex offender registry and allowed him to get his law license back by 2031.
- The Week Ahead 🔥May 24, 2026 ...
- Scenes from a personalist regime 🔥Seven signs that Trump has embedded personalist leadership in American government ...
- Senate Democrats Are Not Taking Their Jobs Seriously 🔥If Trump is picking judicial nominees who will serve as “MAGA loyalists,” why are you voting to confirm any of them?
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.
- Pope Leo Calls For AI Regulation And Protecting The Dignity Of Workers In First Encyclical 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The 83-page papal circular titled “Magnificent Humanity” calls for government regulation of AI companies and protection and retraining of workers who may be impacted.
- VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild† The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations bet...
- 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.
- The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.† Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
- Opinion | What A.I. Philanthropists Can Learn From the Gilded Age† Leave a physical legacy to future generations, not just a record of programs and disbursements.
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.
- When a Wrong Creates a Life: Tort Responses to Children Born From Institutional Sexual Violence† 🔥Today, the paradigm case of “wrongful life” involves a claim on behalf of a child—typically, a disabled child—who would not exist but for an act of negligent re ...
- OPPOSITIONAL FEDERALISM: A Taxonomy of State Constitutional Postures Under Authoritarian Capture Federal authoritarian capture, the condition in which the executive branch acts outside constitutional bounds and the ordinary checks on that conduct s ...
- Vaccines, Religious Liberty, and the GVR as Doctrinal Signal In Miller v. McDonald, the Supreme Court vacated a decision upholding a vaccine mandate for lacking religious exemptions, remanding for reconsideration ...
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.
- Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence† 🔥🔥Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
- Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models† 🔥🔥Scaling up language models has been shown to predictably improve performance and sample efficiency on a wide range of downstream tasks. This paper instead discusses an unpredictable phenomenon that we...
- Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 🔥We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline that uses LLMs to: (1) extract identity-relevant features, (2) search for candidate matches via semantic embeddings, and (3) reason over top candidates to verify matches and reduce false positives. Compared to classical deanonymization work (e.g., on the Netflix prize) that required structured data, our approach works directly on raw user content across arbitrary platforms. We construct three datasets with known ground-truth data to evaluate our attacks. The first links Hacker News to LinkedIn profiles, using cross-platform references that appear in the profiles. Our second dataset matches users across Reddit movie discussion communities; and the third splits a single user's Reddit history in time to create two pseudonymous profiles to be matched. In each setting, LLM-based methods substantially outperform classical baselines, achieving up to 68% recall at 90% precision compared to near 0% for the best non-LLM method. Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.
- LLMs as Noisy Channels: A Shannon Perspective on Model Capacity and Scaling Laws 🔥Existing scaling laws for Large Language Models (LLMs), predominantly monotonic power laws, fail to explain emerging non-monotonic phenomena such as catastrophic overtraining and quantization-induced ...
- Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search Large language models (LLMs) increasingly excel at mathematical reasoning, but their unreliability limits their utility in mathematics research. A mitigation is using LLMs to generate formal proofs 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)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evil, Corrupt, and Weaponized Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Innocent🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.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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