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.
- The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- In Trump’s Orbit, Women Aren’t the Only Ones Concerned About Their Looks 🔥
- Ukraine Has Written Off the United States 🔥Zelensky has stopped pretending that Trump might be an ally.
- Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology
- Trump’s antipathy for Pope may have roots in childhood Protestant church Manhattan church led by Norman Vincent Peale was known for opposing presidency of JFK – and Catholics in general ...
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.
- If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore 🔥🔥🔥Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.
- Justice According To Trump 🔥🔥The Justice Department has moved to drop the last remaining January 6 insurrection criminal matters: the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases.
- Major Update: Explosive New Melania/Epstein Allegations, Trump May Fire Kash Patel Over Alcoholism, Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz Good morning everyone.
- Meet the New Boss; Worse than the Old Boss Blanche takes the DOJ to even lower depths.
- April 18, 2026 And, just like that, President Donald J.
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.
- Thiel-Backed Startup Wants AI to Judge Journalism† 🔥🔥🔥Objection lets users pay to challenge news stories with AI arbitration ...
- A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop† 🔥🔥She wanted to pry her late mother’s vineyard from two of her brothers. Instead, her lawyers were fined nearly $110,000 for citing bogus case law generated by artificial intelligence.
- Thousands of authors seek share of Anthropic copyright settlement Nearly 120,000 authors and other copyright holders are seeking a share of a $1.5 billion class-action settlement with Anthropic over the company's unauthorized use of their books in artificial-intelligence training, according to a filing in California federal court.
- Anthropic Code Crisis Creates Copyright Contradiction For publishers, authors, and other creators, the schadenfreude might feel well-earned, writes James Ball. But is it justified?
- Speech by the Master of the Rolls: Lawyers and Legal Education in the Machine Age - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary Read Sir Geoffrey Vos' speech, delivered at the Association of Law Teachers Conference 2026 at Exeter University ...
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.
- Play Ball! The Stories of Hall of Fame Attorneys (book review essay)† 🔥Perhaps the greatest honor for a baseball player is induction to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Eleven of the in ...
- Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative† (This is Part 1 of a two-article series. The second installment — also available on SSRN — is called “The Executive Power Clause.”)Article II of the Uni ...
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.
- CoopEval: Benchmarking Cooperation-Sustaining Mechanisms and LLM Agents in Social Dilemmas 🔥🔥🔥🔥It is increasingly important that LLM agents interact effectively and safely with other goal-pursuing agents, yet, recent works report the opposite trend: LLMs with stronger reasoning capabilities beh...
- MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor 🔥🔥Metonymy and metaphor often co-occur in natural language, yet computational work has studied them largely in isolation. We introduce a framework that transforms a literal sentence into three figurativ...
- AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence 🔥🔥AI outputs are protected by the First Amendment. Two doctrines make this clear. First, the right to receive information, upheld in many Supreme Court decisions,
- Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation 🔥🔥State Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have become a popular alternative to Transformer models, due to their reduced memory consumption and higher throughput at generation compared to their Attention...
- Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender† 🔥People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We ...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Strait of Popehat Or Iran Or Whatever (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.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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