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.
- Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk, They’re Now Getting Big Payouts 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll 🔥🔥🔥The investigation is said to center on whether Ms. Carroll committed perjury in civil lawsuits against Donald J. Trump, whom she accused of sexual assault.
- Colbert launches YouTube channel less than a week after late-night show ends 🔥🔥Channel quietly debuts over weekend with Only in Monroe video days after Thursday’s final Late Show episode ...
- Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters 🔥🔥
- Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll Over Trump Lawsuits 🔥🔥
- Dell Wins $9.7 Billion Defense Deal To Streamline Software Buys 🔥🔥A unit of Dell Technologies Inc. won a $9.7 billion contract to help the US military handle its licenses for Microsoft Corp. software related to email, spreadsheets and other needs across classified a...
- Report ‘phone hack’ to police or I will do it for you, Labour chair tells Farage 🔥Anna Turley gives Reform leader 24 hours to report Russian hacking claim in ‘public and national interest’
- Hungarian MPs vote to remain member of ICC, overturning decision made by Orbán 🔥Since Péter Magyar’s election victory he has vowed to reverse withdrawal from court before it took effect ...
- Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya 🔥
- Nothing sums up the death of accountability like the prospect of Nigel Farage in No 10 | George Monbiot 🔥You’d expect the public face of Brexit to be punished by voters. But history shows that such leaders often profit from the chaos they sow, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot ...
- Pregnant woman from Ghana detained with child at Dulles Airport, ACLU says 🔥The pair had arrived seeking medical treatment and have been in a windowless room for more than a week, according to their lawyers.
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.
- Trump wants all federal employees to sign NDAs 🔥🔥🔥A breathtaking expansion of the culture of governmental secrecy ...
- DOJ's fight against trans medical care in prison is a fight to erase trans people in the law 🔥🔥"The pendulum has swung," DOJ's Jared Littman said in a court hearing Wednesday, arguing that all transgender people — at all ages — can be denied needed medical care.
- Major Update: Trump Fears Prosecution and Investigations, California Seeks 100% Tax on Slush Fund, CBS Reporter Blasts Network 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- May 27, 2026 In Texas yesterday, Republican primary voters chose Trump-backed state attorney general Ken Paxton over incumbent senator John Cornyn by more than 27 points to be the Republican candidate for senator.
- 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.
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.
- US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
- ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access† 🔥🔥BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance v...
- California judges are testing a new AI clerk. You won't know if it's looking at your case† Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.
- Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign.
- Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
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.
- Drafting Regulatory Preambles (Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States) 🔥🔥This is a report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in ju ...
- Towns or Counties† The United States is a nation of counties with a latent romance for towns. The development of American local government law from the arrival of the first Europe ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing† “Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
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.
- Datasets for Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey† 🔥🔥🔥This paper embarks on an exploration into the Large Language Model (LLM) datasets, which play a crucial role in the remarkable advancements of LLMs. The datasets serve as the foundational infrastructu...
- Engagement-Optimized Care: When LLMs become Mental Health Infrastructure† 🔥🔥General-purpose LLMs are increasingly functioning as mental health infrastructure due to gaps in care left by provider shortages, inadequate insurance coverage, social isolation, and stigma around for...
- The Illusion of Competence: Self-Perceived Digital Literacy and AI Readiness Among European Secondary Students† 🔥🔥The ubiquitous presence of digital devices has cemented the 'Digital Native' paradigm, assuming inherent technological proficiency among contemporary youth. This multicenter study ($N=243$ European se...
- Simulating Human Memory with Language Models 🔥🔥Language models are increasingly being deployed as user simulators, but their memory is far more reliable than that of real users. To measure this gap, we run a series of classic memory experiments fr...
- The sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers 🔥We disprove the sum-product conjecture for real numbers by constructing arbitrarily large $A\subset \mathbb{R}$ (whose elements are algebraic integers in a number field of degree $\asymp \log\lvert A\...
- 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 ...
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)
- Popehat Has Gone Absolutely CRAZY!!! (@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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