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.
- Kyiv monastery set on fire in night of Russian attacks across Ukraine 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Dormition Cathedral at Unesco world heritage site struck along with residential buildings across capital ...
- Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Eight presumed dead after B-52 bomber crashes at California air force base 🔥🔥B-52 crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards air force base in southern California’s Mojave Desert, officials say ...
- Trump sought to break Iran’s regime. He settled for reopening Hormuz. 🔥🔥The emerging agreement ends a costly war but leaves Iran’s leadership intact and its nuclear future still subject to negotiation.
- DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit 🔥In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
- Reform UK’s Honest Bob makes a stand for the little people like him | John Crace 🔥It fell to Robert Jenrick to announce his party’s plans to lift white British people from the bottom of the pile ...
- Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue deal 🔥The environment secretary says the deal does not do enough for consumers or the environment.
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 Week Ahead† 🔥🔥🔥June 14, 2026 ...
- Major Update: Trump Discussed Suspending Constitutional Rights, Epstein Consumes White House, UFC Fight Faces Major Blowback 🔥Good morning everyone.
- Disgrace and Dishonor 🔥The spectacle of Donald Trump's cage fight shows spits at the memory of Abraham Lincoln and trashes our White House ...
- Important Monday Update: Epstein Investigation Ramps Up as Our Reporting Grows, Newsom Investigated, and Petroleum Reserves Emptied Good evening, everyone.
- June 15, 2026 President Donald J.
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.
- Exclusive | OpenAI Investigated by Coalition of State Attorneys General 🔥🔥🔥🔥The company was served with a subpoena seekingr documents covering a wide range of its activities and impact on users.
- Meta reportedly enters agreement with firm that makes facial recognition tech for law enforcement 🔥🔥🔥The firm makes face recognition software for the U.S. Marshals Service.
- Meta licensed ROC facial recognition, liveness for smart glasses project | Biometric Update 🔥🔥Meta’s development of facial recognition for its smart glasses is drawing sharper scrutiny after reporting that the company licensed technology from ROC ...
- Welcome to the AGI era of AI governance It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.
- A Kill Switch for Frontier AI The government is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful models. The legal authority is plausible but the facts remain murky.
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.
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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 AI Fiction Paradox 🔥🔥🔥AI development has a fiction dependency problem: models are built on massive corpora of modern fiction and desperately need more of it, yet they struggle to generate it. I term this the AI-Fiction Par...
- AI can help scientists publish less† 🔥🔥🔥We can do more than defend science from a flood of AI-assisted papers. Used well, AI offers a historic opportunity to correct distortions in the publication system, help us publish fewer and better pa...
- Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions 🔥ArXiv link for Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions ...
- Mean-Field Systems with Heterogeneous Subteams: Optimality of Cluster-Symmetric Independent Policies and Equivalence with Decentralized McKean-Vlasov Control of Cluster-Representative Agents† Across science and engineering, mean-field methods have been a powerful and versatile approach for the analysis of systems of many interacting elements. However, common arguments used to characterize ...
- Playing With AI: How Do State-Of-The-Art Large Language Models Perform in the 1977 Text-Based Adventure Game Zork? In this positioning paper, we evaluate the problem-solving and reasoning capabilities of contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) through their performance in Zork, the seminal text-based adventure g...
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)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathryn Tewson (@kathryntewson.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social)
- Jonathon Booth (@jboothhistory.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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