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.
- Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The president told his White House team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait, the world’s most vital shipping lane.
- F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage 🔥🔥
- Lobbyist Arrested in Extortion Attempt of Client Who Received a Trump Pardon 🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession 🔥
- Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy 🔥
- 'SNL' Cold Open: Pete Hegseth Has Some Terrible Advice for Trapped Oil Tankers 🔥SNL's Donald Trump summoned Pete Hegseth to explain how the U.S. has "won" the Iran war and why the press should stop asking about it.
- Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab 🔥
- Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them. 🔥Mandatory helmet laws and glow-in-the-dark spray paint just show who really owns the roads.
- Mandelson still a human being who’s entitled to fair trial, says Cherie Blair 🔥Wife of former PM also says she is mentioned in Epstein files and coverage not focused enough on victims of abuse ...
- Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies 🔥Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon ...
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 Cruelty is the Point 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Deaths of Daphy Michel and Nurul Amin Shah Alam ...
- Concentration Camp Labor 🔥Cannot Become Normal ...
- DOJ is barely even a functional law firm at this point. Each day there is more proof. 🔥Jeanine Pirro's effort to subpoena the Fed hit a wall. At the same time, DOJ was also forced to "clarify" arguments made in court about the Pentagon's new press policy.
- NEWS: Trump Administration Threatens Media Licenses Over "Negative" Iran War Coverage as Marines Deploy and Allies Do Not Answer Trump's Demands Good evening everyone.
- March 14, 2026 March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.
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.
- The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet 🔥🔥🔥🔥On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
- Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases warns of mass casualty risks | TechCrunch† 🔥🔥🔥AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
- AI Apocalypse Looms. We’re Already Blowing It. 🔥Surely there are more options than letting AI run wild or shutting it down, right? Right?
- Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Can’t be Probed in OpenAI Fraud Trial Elon Musk’s use of the drug ketamine will be off limits to attorneys for OpenAI Inc. and its chief executive officer Sam Altman during an upcoming jury trial over claims that the generative AI company defrauded Musk by abandoning its nonprofit roots.
- ‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs In today’s episode, we discuss how the saga between Anthropic and the Department of Defense is far from over.
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.
- Automating Bluebook Citations in Legal Scholarship: A User's Guide for Bluebook in Zotero 🔥🔥This paper documents an implementation of the Bluebook Law Review citation format using the Zotero citation manager software. It introduces revisions to an exis ...
- The War on DEI as a Project of Constitutional Subversion† This Article examines how the second Trump Administration’s aggressive attacks on policies and speech associated with diversity, equity, and inclusi ...
- Known to Police: the Revival of Juvenile Curfews† A few years ago, in response to an uptick in crime rates, many cities revived a familiar tool-juvenile curfews. Yet unlike prior iter ...
- The Neuroscience of Brain Injury in Criminal Cases: An International Scope† Broadly interpreted, neuroscientific evidence encompasses all information about the brain and its functions, including various types of brain injury. In recent ...
- Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined† In 2020, I argued in Originalism and Birthright Citizenship that the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause guaranteed U.S. ci ...
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.
- Data-Driven Integration Kernels for Interpretable Nonlocal Operator Learning† 🔥🔥Machine learning models can represent climate processes that are nonlocal in horizontal space, height, and time, often by combining information across these dimensions in highly nonlinear ways. While ...
- Enabling Innovation and Protecting Consumers in the Agentic Economy: Why the Digital Fairness Act Should Regulate Agentic AI† 🔥Agentic AI is widely seen as the next major evolution in the field of artificial intelligence. Unlike chatbots, AI agents are able to browse the web and autonom ...
- Safety Under Scaffolding: How Evaluation Conditions Shape Measured Safety 🔥ArXiv link for Safety Under Scaffolding: How Evaluation Conditions Shape Measured Safety ...
- Training Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata 🔥ArXiv link for Training Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata ...
- Seeing Space and Motion: Enhancing Latent Actions with Geometric and Dynamic Awareness for Vision-Language-Action Models ArXiv link for Seeing Space and Motion: Enhancing Latent Actions with Geometric and Dynamic Awareness for Vision-Language-Action Models ...
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)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.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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