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.
- HUD Moves to Limit Assistance Animals for Disabled Tenants 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration 🔥🔥
- Putin Has Lost Control of the Narrative 🔥🔥He can no longer insulate Moscow from the catastrophe he has created.
- US green card applicants will now have to return to home countries to apply, DHS says 🔥Change criticized by advocates marks the latest significant move by the Trump administration on immigration policy ...
- New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise 🔥More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals ...
- Opinion | Trump Offered Men Something That Democrats Never Could (Published 2024) 🔥
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.
- NEWS: DOJ Purges January 6 Records From Government Websites as I Archive Them—Iran War, Ebola, and More 🔥🔥🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Hawaii's Power Play: SB 2471 Takes on Citizens United 🔥🔥Hawaii is giving Citizens United a run for its money ...
- Heading Into Memorial Day 🔥Memorial Day feels very somber this year.
- A Metastasizing Scandal It’s imperative to keep turning up the heat on the Trump-Blanche slush fund swindle.
- May 23, 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.
- Judge says lawyers' AI use risks ‘career-altering’ consequences† 🔥🔥🔥🔥A federal judge in Alabama has suspended a lawyer from practicing in his court for six months after finding the attorney submitted a brief with false quotations and impeded a probe into whether an AI program was used to draft the filing.
- UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students† 🔥🔥The University of California, Berkeley Law School has adopted a new, strict policy governing students’ use of AI. It forbids the use of AI for work submitted for credit.
- VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild 🔥The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations bet...
- Lawyers know AI can hallucinate. Judges have warned them. Courts have sanctioned them for it. They keep citing fake AI cases anyway. The trend of attorneys getting caught citing AI-hallucinated cases points to a broader problem: instead of checking AI’s work, people keep trusting it ...
- OpenAI defeats Elon Musk's lawsuit, removes obstacle to IPO A U.S. jury found OpenAI not liable to the world's richest person for having allegedly strayed from its original mission to benefit humanity.
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.
- Against First Amendment Traditionalism† 🔥🔥The First Amendment freedoms of speech and press are under serious strain. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
- Government Research Funding and the First Amendment Federal science research funding has become a flashpoint in the second Trump Administration, with grant terminations and political reviews that look like textbo ...
- Once and Future Revocation of Tax Exemption for Pursuit of DEI and Other Alleged Violations of Section 501(c)(3) This piece first describes the process for revoking exempt status. It then considers each of four possible bases – violation of fundamental public policy ...
- "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
- AI-Powered Lawyering: AI Reasoning Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and the Future of Legal Practice Generative AI is set to transform the legal profession, though its most promising uses and ultimate effects are still unclear. While AI models like GPT-4 improv ...
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.
- 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...
- The meaning of doing mathematics 🔥🔥🔥Can AI solve all math? What do we actually mean by doing mathematics? How do we communicate mathematics? What is mathematics beyond problem solving? This essay is my attempt to answer these question...
- On the limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature-family papers with 45 expert scientists† 🔥🔥With the advancement of AI capabilities, AI reviewers are beginning to be deployed in scientific peer review, yet their capability and credibility remain in question: many scientists simply view them ...
- Estimating near-verbatim extraction risk in language models with decoding-constrained beam search† 🔥Recent work shows that standard greedy-decoding extraction methods for quantifying memorization in LLMs miss how extraction risk varies across sequences. Probabilistic extraction -- computing the prob...
- LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations† 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
- All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMs† 🔥
- The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data† 🔥Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples": synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents. However, producing these samples requires many analyti...
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)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evil, Corrupt, and Weaponized Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Innocent🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (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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