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.
- Unauthorized ICE ‘wellness checks’ by police at Ohio schools draw outrage 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Community members and rights groups criticize police arriving at Cincinnati schools on behalf of ICE ...
- Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill Access by Mail to Continue 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud 🔥🔥
- Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients Who Spent Millions Seeking Sway 🔥🔥Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE backed Affinity Partners in hopes of gaining White House influence and investment returns. The US war with Iran that they opposed has shown the constraints of that appr...
- Duffy’s ‘Great American Road Trip’ Prompts Ethical Concerns 🔥🔥
- Wes Streeting resigns as health secretary, saying he has lost confidence in PM's leadership 🔥In a letter to Keir Starmer, Streeting says it would be ...
- Typical English roast dinner potentially ‘drenched’ in 102 pesticides, says report 🔥Greenpeace finds cocktail of pesticides including seven banned in EU may have been used on seven vegetables and soft fruit categories ...
- Opinion | He Was Good at Steering the Fed, but He Was a Genius at Ignoring Trump’s Threats 🔥
- Nigel Farage now says £5m from crypto billionaire was ‘reward’ for Brexit push 🔥Reform UK leader offers new explanation for gift, which is under investigation, having first said it was for his security ...
- Justice Dept. Sues to Block Ethics Punishments of Administration Lawyers 🔥
- UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system 🔥The government said its in-house IT system was ...
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.
- Forgetting About Jeffrey Epstein 🔥🔥🔥Donald Trump is playing the distract and delay game again.
- Trump in China: A Case Study Of US Decline 🔥Signs of decline can be dramatic or they can be small.
- Bluesky is a record store 🔥(A ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 379. 5/14/26 … After bombshell revelations that he paid sex workers for years during international trips, Kristi Noem’s Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced his resignation today.
- May 14, 2026 Vice President J.D.
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.
- After Deaths, Lawsuits Against A.I. Companies Test a New Strategy† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Why Americans dread AI† 🔥🔥🔥Silicon Valley encourages the view that the technology is unstoppable — and Trump seems to agree ...
- OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn't be the first partner to feel burned | TechCrunch 🔥🔥According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an outside law firm to work through its options.
- Sam Altman’s Personal Investments Are Under Investigation—He’ll Testify Today At OpenAI Trial† 🔥🔥Altman is slated to take the stand Wednesday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against him and OpenAI.
- Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale 🔥Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where "everyone is unhappy."
- Lawsuit Blames ChatGPT Maker OpenAI for Helping Plan a School Shooting 🔥The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing OpenAI, alleging its chatbot gave advice on planning it.
- Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI† 🔥Week three of Elon vs. Altman.
- “Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says 🔥Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.
- The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial 🔥A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.
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 Counterfeit Sham† 🔥There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
- Section 7 of the Charter and the Constitutional Limits on Rolling Back Supervised Consumption Services This paper examines the constitutional limits imposed by section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on government effort ...
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.
- 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…
- LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate† 🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...
- Little Impact of ChatGPT Availability on High School Student Test Score Performance† 🔥In educational settings, AI can be used as a learning aid, but can also be used to avoid schoolwork, thereby passing classes while learning little. Many existing studies on the impact of AI on educati...
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...
- Information Theory and Statistical Learning† This manuscript contains preprint of a chapter under consideration for inclusion in the forthcoming third edition of {\em Cover and Thomas's Elements of Information Theory}, posted with permission fro...
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)
- I Don’t Think About Popehat’s Financial Situation (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me) (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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