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.
- Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘You’re a washed-up loser lawyer’: Pam Bondi taunts Democrats over Epstein 🔥🔥🔥US attorney general goes on attack during questioning by House judiciary committee over handling of files ...
- Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress† 🔥🔥🔥
- Minnesota FACE Off: A Deep Dive Into the St. Paul Church Protest Case 🔥🔥Unpacking the Don Lemon indictment, its factual allegations, the elements the government must prove to convict, and the potential defenses available to the accused.
- ‘I’m crushed’: Transgender patients left in limbo after UMass Memorial canceled their surgeries 🔥🔥Some people had waited nearly a year for their appointments with a preeminent surgeon. Now, they don’t know what to do.
- Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms 🔥🔥
- Nancy Guthrie Live Updates: Man Is Released After Interrogation and Home Search 🔥🔥
- F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days 🔥
- Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 🔥Supreme court makes ruling after Swedish firm’s long-running battle with trade association Dairy UK ...
- Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. 🔥The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.
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.
- Two Days On The Hill: ICE & Pam Bondi 🔥🔥🔥Writing this newsletter isn’t always easy.
- The "Return" of the Golden Sword 🔥My grandfather guarded it. The British stole it. I'm named after it—and I'm going to fight for it.
- Opening up the Trump admin's attack on Minnesota refugees to greater public scrutiny 🔥On Tuesday, Law Dork, with Public Justice, filed a motion to improve access to a key court case challenging ICE's new effort to detain thousands of law-abiding refugees.
- Shock Poll: Americans Miss Joe Biden’s Economy 🔥Here’s what they’re worried about.
- Major Mid-Day Update: Pam Bondi Attacks Lawmakers with "Burn Book" and Refuses to Apologize to Survivors as Hearing Goes off the Rails 🔥Good afternoon from Capitol Hill.
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.
- ‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms | Common Dreams 🔥🔥🔥🔥Silicon Valley elites plan to spend big in 2026 to influence Congress for AI-friendly legislation. Leading the Future PAC pledges $100 million.
- AI brings Supreme Court decisions to life 🔥🔥🔥Like it or not, the justices are about to see AI versions of themselves, speaking words that they spoke in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except those in the courtroom.
- Death isn't the end: Meta patented an AI that lets you post from beyond the grave Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
- OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware† A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.
- Inside OpenAI’s Decision to Kill the AI Model That People Loved Too Much† ChatGPT’s 4o model was beloved by many users, but it was controversial for its sycophancy and the real-world harms linked to some conversations.
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.
- GPT-5 supera a jueces federales en experimento de razonamiento legal Un estudio académico publicado en SSRN afirma que GPT-5 superó a jueces federales en una prueba de razonamiento legal. La noticia generó 269 puntos y 189 comentarios en Hacker News, reflejando un intenso debate sobre el impacto de la IA en el ámbito jurídico. Los resultados, aunque preliminares, sugieren un potencial disruptivo de los modelos de lenguaje en tareas especializadas.
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.
- Why do we do astrophysics? 🔥🔥🔥🔥At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...
- 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...
- Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back† ArXiv link for Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back ...
- Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability† ArXiv link for Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability ...
- The Case of the Mysterious Citations Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...
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)
- We Left With All Of My Popehats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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