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.
- Musk found liable to Twitter shareholders in fraud lawsuit over $44 billion takeover 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A U.S. federal jury found Elon Musk liable on Friday for claims he defrauded Twitter shareholders by trying to drive down the social media company's stock price so he could renegotiate or back out of...
- U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Colombia’s President, a Onetime Trump Foe 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional 🔥🔥
- Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism 🔥
- Jury finds Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter purchase 🔥A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company fo...
- Attorney general asks if Kemi Badenoch would object to Jewish public prayer 🔥Exclusive: Richard Hermer, who is Jewish, says Tory leader and shadow minister seem ‘to only have an issue with Muslim events’
- Elon Musk Misled Twitter Investors Before 2022 Buyout, Jury Says 🔥Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded.
- Nicholas Brendon, a Star in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ Is Dead 🔥
- The Threats and Bare-Knuckle Tactics of MAGA’s Top Antitrust Fixer 🔥Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals—and went over their heads if they pushed back.
- Thousands ordered to evacuate as Hawaii hit by severe flash floods 🔥Officials warn some residents could be trapped by rising waters as Wahiawā dam on Oahu ‘may collapse at any time’
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.
- Fulton County Files Its Brief 🔥🔥🔥Fulton County did not mince words in its amended response to the government’s motion to quash.
- Experimental hookworm vaccine shows promising protection in phase 2 human trial 🔥Hookworm infects an estimated 113 million people globally primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. It is a major cause of iron-deficiency anemia in children and pregnant wom...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 332. 3/20/26 … NYT: “Trump’s meeting with PM Sanae Takaichi at the WH was the talk of Japan on Friday.
- NEWS: Trump Declares Victory in Iran (Again), Musk Found Liable for Fraud, Tone in DC Shifts as Republicans Grow Concerned About the War and More Good evening everyone.
- Five Questions with E. Jean Carroll Advice for the Lovelorn ...
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.
- Draft AI Framework to Replace State Laws Released by Senate (1)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Senate has released a draft national framework to replace state laws on artificial intelligence and promote the technology’s development while minimizing risks to Americans.
- The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths† 🔥After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.
- Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation The new policy framework also emphasized age verification for AI platforms.
- The Right Remedy in the Anthropic Case† The government can stop buying from Anthropic anytime it wants. It just can't bypass the procurement system Congress built to do it.
- Neal K. Shah: Google just patented the right to replace your website with its own CareYaya CEO Neal K. Shah warns that Google's new patent for AI-generated landing pages threatens to disintermediate the relationship between businesses and consumers by replacing authentic websites w...
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.
- Legal Aspects of Photovoltaic Waste Management and Recycling Responsibilities in Sustainable International Law: Reconciling Stability and Change A solar panel typically consists of multiple silicon crystal sheets, known as photovoltaic (PV) cells, which are enclosed between protective layers of aluminum ...
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.
- AI and Blackness: Towards moving beyond bias and representation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥In this paper, we argue that AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed...
- Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons on autonomous learning from cognitive science† 🔥🔥We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition. The proposed framework integrate...
- WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents ...
- The Faithful Machine: Trust, Delegation, and Algorithm Aversion in Financial Advice The algorithm aversion literature presents apparently contradictory findings: people sometimes reject algorithms that outperform humans, sometimes prefer them,
- Flip Distance of Triangulations of Convex Polygons / Rotation Distance of Binary Trees is NP-complete† Flips in triangulations of convex polygons arise in many different settings. They are isomorphic to rotations in binary trees, define edges in the 1-skeleton of the Associahedron and cover relations i...
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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