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.
- Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Soil, Not Blood, Determines U.S. Citizenship 🔥🔥
- How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels 🔥Kraków’s ban on burning solid fuels plus subsidies for cleaner heating has led to clearer air and better health ...
- Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago 🔥The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.
- With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans 🔥
- Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’ 🔥Exclusive: Nigel Farage understood to have known of grievance against byelection candidate, whose lawyer described it as resolved ‘minor workplace matter’ of miscommunication ...
- I see two things in Gorton and Denton: palpable frustration and the need for wise voting to stop Reform | Polly Toynbee 🔥After speaking to locals, I still can’t predict the result, but a big, combined effort will be needed. Without a united front the left may splinter and lose, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee ...
- Live Updates: Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling and Trump’s Immediate New Levies Add New Uncertainty in Global Trade 🔥
- Veterans sue over Trump’s planned 250-foot arch, citing cemetery views 🔥The Vietnam War veterans, who later worked as U.S. diplomats, say that the arch would harm the experience of visiting nearby Arlington National Cemetery.
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.
- Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack† 🔥The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- BREAKING: Trump Furious at Supreme Court During Chaotic Press Conference and Imposes New Global Tariffs 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- Five Questions with Musician Nils Lofgren 🔥The Protest Anthem You've Been Waiting For!
- Important Friday Update: Trump-Ally's Tariff Corruption Scheme Exposed as Governors Demand Refunds for Their Citizens 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 312. 2/20/26 🔥… Trump had perhaps the worst day of his presidency so far - the Supreme Court overturned many of his tariffs, the 4th quarter GDP number was terrible, and inflation is rising again.
- Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, blocks Trump's IEEPA tariffs 🔥Chief Justice John Roberts found that there actually are structural limits on the president's powers.
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.
- Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked† 🔥🔥🔥🔥In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.
- Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago 🔥🔥The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.
- As Musk’s xAI Data Centers Encroach on Southaven, North Mississippi Residents Push Back† As Elon Musk’s xAI expands its data centers into Southaven, Mississippi, residents are decrying noise pollution and raising concerns over emissions.
- Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was "meant for greatness"—then came psychosis AI Injury Attorneys" target the chatbot design itself.
- Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die† Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
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.
- CheckIfExist: Detecting Citation Hallucinations in the Era of AI-Generated Content 🔥🔥The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in academic workflows has introduced unprecedented challenges to bibliographic integrity, particularly through reference hallucination -- the generati...
- AI Gamestore: Scalable, Open-Ended Evaluation of Machine General Intelligence with Human Games 🔥Rigorously evaluating machine intelligence against the broad spectrum of human general intelligence has become increasingly important and challenging in this era of rapid technological advance. Conven...
- Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work† 🔥AIs have made rapid progress on research-oriented benchmarks of knowledge and reasoning, but it remains unclear how these gains translate into economic value and automation. To measure this, we introd...
- Narrow fine-tuning erodes safety alignment in vision-language agents ArXiv link for Narrow fine-tuning erodes safety alignment in vision-language agents ...
- Artificial intelligence is algorithmic mimicry: why artificial "agents" are not (and won't be) proper agents What is the prospect of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI)? I investigate this question by systematically comparing living and algorithmic systems, with a special focus on the notion of "agency." There are three fundamental differences to consider: (1) Living systems are autopoietic, that is, self-manufacturing, and therefore able to set their own intrinsic goals, while algorithms exist in a computational environment with target functions that are both provided by an external agent. (2) Living systems are embodied in the sense that there is no separation between their symbolic and physical aspects, while algorithms run on computational architectures that maximally isolate software from hardware. (3) Living systems experience a large world, in which most problems are ill-defined (and not all definable), while algorithms exist in a small world, in which all problems are well-defined. These three differences imply that living and algorithmic systems have very different capabilities and limitations. In particular, it is extremely unlikely that true AGI (beyond mere mimicry) can be developed in the current algorithmic framework of AI research. Consequently, discussions about the proper development and deployment of algorithmic tools should be shaped around the dangers and opportunities of current narrow AI, not the extremely unlikely prospect of the emergence of true agency in artificial systems.
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)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- These Fucking Hats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.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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