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.
- Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Demand at online marketplaces could settle at a new, higher normal, with the crisis leaving consumers ‘scarred’
- Hungary’s Viktor Orban, ally of Trump and Putin, concedes election defeat 🔥🔥WIth record turnout, Hungarians chose to end the 16-year rule of the prime minister who was a self-proclaimed champion of illiberal Christian democracy.
- Hungary’s Orbán Ousted in Landslide Election Defeat The result is a stunning turn for a politician who has ruled as prime minister for 16 years and been an ally of President Trump.
- Hungary’s Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Election
- Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds Exclusive: MPs say profit-making levels in England are ‘scandalous’ and call for cap on amount private companies can make from NHS ...
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.
- The Hungarian Candidate† 🔥🔥🔥Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?
- The causes and consequences of Trump’s defeat 🔥The Islamabad negotiations were supposed to conclude the Iran War in such a way that the US and Israel would have something to show for the thousands of lives lost and ruined, the vast quantities of o...
- BREAKING: Far-Right Loses in Hungary Despite Trump Endorsement, More Epstein Developments, Trump Announces Blockade of the Strait Major breaking news: the far-right has lost in Hungary.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 347 … Viktor Orban was soundly defeated by opposition leader Peter Magyar in today’s crucial elections in Hungary.
- NEWS: JD Vance Faces Blowback as None of his Tasks are Successful, Republicans Concerned Following Orban's Loss, Naval Blockade Begins Tomorrow Good afternoon.
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.
- OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters† 🔥🔥🔥The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
- Exclusive | Vile AI photos of KKK-hooded cops and cuffed gorillas passed around by elite NYPD unit — sparking discrimination suit† 🔥The chat group used by the Major Case Squad was titled “Major case – team building,” with the offensive images showing up in 2025 and 2026, according to a lawsuit.
- Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 10
- Clients’ barrage of AI-generated queries risks pushing up lawyers’ fees Firms may raise prices for fixed-fee contracts if clients keep sending flurries of emails and letters ...
- Hormuz blockade, Supreme Court retirements and powering AI with coal Trump vows to blockade Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks stumble ...
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.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning 🔥🔥Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l ...
- The Crisis of Appropriations Law† 🔥Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principles, approv ...
- Mitigating the Judicial Human-AI Fairness Gap When algorithms make legal decisions, people perceive the process as less fair than when humans do — a phenomenon known as the judicial human-AI fairness gap. W ...
- Suppressing Constitutional Law: Qualified Immunity and Non-precedential Opinions Federal appellate courts label most opinions as "non-precedent." The label is supposed to have no doctrinal impact. But in the context of qualified im ...
- Circumventing the Supreme Court: Copyright Law and the Limits of Judicial Centralization The federal judiciary plays a central role in developing copyright law. With Congress largely inactive in recent decades and with no administrative age ...
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.
- Can LLMs Produce Original Astronomy Research in a Semester? A Graduate Class Experiment 🔥🔥🔥We discuss the results of using large language models (LLMs) to conduct original scientific research in an unfamiliar subject area during the Fall 2025 semester. Students in a graduate astronomy and a...
- Generative AI Practices, Literacy, and Divides: An Empirical Analysis in the Italian Context† 🔥The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) language technologies, particularly generative AI (GenAI) chatbots accessible via conversational interfaces, is transforming digital interactions. While these ...
- The Shrinking Lifespan of LLMs in Science† ArXiv link for The Shrinking Lifespan of LLMs in Science ...
- Scientific Machine Learning-assisted Model Discovery from Telemetry Data Calibration of dynamic models to data is an important step in building building digital twins of HVAC equipment, thermal loads and control systems. Sometimes, when a model fails to calibrate to data, ...
- Generative AI Training and Copyright Law Training generative AI models requires extensive amounts of data. A common practice is to collect such data through web scraping. Yet, much of what has been and is collected is copyright protected. It...
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)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Weak On Nuclear Weapons Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Deb Golden (@debgoldendc.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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