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.
- Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax 🔥🔥🔥Sergey Brin gives $25m on top of $20m he’s already given to Super Pac trying to block state’s proposed 5% wealth tax ...
- ‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski 🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisation ...
- Starmer plans to ease impact of immigration policy changes after backlash from Labour MPs 🔥🔥PM will consider exempting large numbers from proposed changes, which would leave people waiting 10 years for settled status ...
- Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war 🔥That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.
- Former sub postmaster Parmod Kalia dies awaiting compensation 🔥Tributes are paid to Parmod Kalia who ran a branch in Orpington, who has died aged 67.
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.
- A Statement from Dolores Huerta 🔥🔥March 18, 2026 ...
- We Have Not Forgotten About The Epstein Files 🔥🔥Even though Donald Trump went to war in Iran, arguably according to at least some commentators and even a Republican congressman, to distract from the Epstein Files, we have not forgotten about them o...
- Important Update: Major Epstein Revelations Undercut Trump Claims and Reveal Expanded Russia Ties as Oil and Gas Prices Surge 🔥Good evening everyone.
- March 18, 2026 🔥I was intending to take tonight off, but there’s big news—I mean, aside from all the other big news—that I want to make sure gets attention.
- NEWS: DHS Nomination Hearing Erupts as GOP Rift Deepens, Tulsi Gabbard Dodges Iran Questions, and Energy Prices Surge 🔥Good afternoon everyone, here’s your critical mid-day update from Capitol Hill.
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.
- Teens allege Musk’s Grok chatbot made sexual images of them as minors† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Three teenage plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Monday accuse xAI of distributing, possessing and producing with intent to distribute child pornography.
- Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems 🔥🔥In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military.
- The DOGE Depos: A Blueprint for Congressional DOGE Hearings 🔥DOGE’s testimony and its virality should serve as a blueprint for Democratic oversight efforts.
- Podcast: The Disappearing DOGE Depositions 🔥This week we talk about the disappearing (and reappearing) DOGE depositions; how AI is African Intelligence; and what AI job loss reports are missing.
- AI pilot program in L.A. County courts will help judges craft rulings in some cases 🔥A select panel of L.A. County judges now have access to an artificial intelligence tool that can help them summarize motions and draft rulings in civil court. The tool, Learned Hand, is already in use...
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.
- The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law† 🔥🔥This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threa ...
- Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters† 🔥School vouchers and charter schools are primed to grow at a time when public school systems are experiencing a precipitous decline in enrollment. Unfortunately,
- A Roadmap for a Monopolization Case Against Google: Monopsony Power and AI Overviews† Google’s integration of AI-generated “Overviews” into general search marks a structural shift in how information is produced, distributed, and monetiz ...
- JudgeGPT: When Progress Meets Precedent by Colleen V. Chien, Niyati Narang, Isabela Ferrari :: SSRN† This article examines how artificial intelligence technologies are being integrated into the judicial systems of three jurisdictions: Brazil, China, and the Uni ...
- Denaturalization's Missing Limit† Civil denaturalization has become a bipartisan tool of punishment and deterrence. The government has used the civil justice system to strip citizenship from ...
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.
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† 🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Large Language Models Reproduce Racial Stereotypes When Used for Text Annotation† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated text annotation in tasks ranging from academic research to content moderation and hiring. Across 19 LLMs and two experiments totaling m...
- 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...
- Moltbook vs. Reddit: Distributional Collapse in Agent-Generated Discourse† Moltbook, a Reddit-like platform built for and populated by LLM driven agents, exhibits dramatically higher redundancy than a Reddit baseline: in a length-match ...
- Shutdown Safety Valves for Advanced AI† One common concern about advanced artificial intelligence is that it will prevent us from turning it off, as that would interfere with pursuing its goals. In this paper, we discuss an unorthodox propo...
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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