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.
- 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 ...
- How the Supreme Court both checks and empowers Donald Trump 🔥🔥It blocks his most blatantly illegal acts, but helps him in other ways ...
- New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise† 🔥🔥More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals ...
- Six reasons to save archaeology from funding cuts 🔥🔥The government plans to cut university subsidy for teaching archaeology by 50%, yet it’s never been more relevant to society.
- 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 ...
- At least £325bn of ‘dirty money’ flows through UK each year, says report 🔥Call for crackdown as finance linked to corruption, tax evasion and money laundering is estimated at 10% of GDP ...
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.
- NEWS: Massie Unleashed over Epstein Files as White House Urges GOP to Tweet Support of Trump's Iran Deal Which is Falling Apart 🔥🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥May 24, 2026 ...
- May 24, 2026 🔥For a while now, I’ve been hinting that my team was up to something.
- The Man in the High Castle 🔥An Occasional Book Review ...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 386. … I am going to start off the Weekend Bulletin with the most comprehensive compilation of analysis of the US-Iran “peace deal” talks you will find anywhere, with assessments from the US govt and media...
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- States are trying to block cities from regulating AI data centers At least nine states have considered bills to stop local municipalities from having a say over AI data centers in their communities ...
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 ...
- "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse† If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
- How Generative AI can Harm Higher Education, with Special Emphasis on Legal Education Generative AI has the potential to do catastrophic harm to higher education. This is because learning is a biological process that requires years ...
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.
- The meaning of doing mathematics† 🔥🔥🔥Can AI solve all math? What do we actually mean by doing mathematics? How do we communicate mathematics? What is mathematics beyond problem solving? This essay is my attempt to answer these question...
- 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...
- On the limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature-family papers with 45 expert scientists† 🔥🔥With the advancement of AI capabilities, AI reviewers are beginning to be deployed in scientific peer review, yet their capability and credibility remain in question: many scientists simply view them ...
- Estimating near-verbatim extraction risk in language models with decoding-constrained beam search† 🔥🔥Recent work shows that standard greedy-decoding extraction methods for quantifying memorization in LLMs miss how extraction risk varies across sequences. Probabilistic extraction -- computing the prob...
- LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
- 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...
- The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data† 🔥Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples": synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents. However, producing these samples requires many analyti...
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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