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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- Maui Braces for Storm as Oahu Lifts Evacuation Orders 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ICE to Aid Airport Security Amid Partial Shutdown, Border Czar Says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data 🔥Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy ...
- The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By
- Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in five years, research finds Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP ...
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.
- No Kings, Freedom! 🔥🔥🔥Gather on March 28th.
- A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border 🔥🔥🔥We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...
- The Week Ahead March 22, 2026 ...
- NEWS: Trump Claims Democrats are America's Greatest Enemy, ICE Deploys to Airports, Iran Threatens Massive Retaliation, Cuba Prepares for War Good afternoon everyone.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 333 … Trump made another disgusting post celebrating the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller: “Robert Mueller just died.
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.
- How AI Content Detection is Being Weaponized in the Iran War† 🔥🔥🔥🔥When trust in evidence collapses, the greatest casualty is accountability for real-world harm, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS.
- 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.
- Considering How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions 🔥Boston University School of Law professors Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey say today's AI systems are a "death sentence" for civic institutions.
- An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI" 🔥Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …
- Lawyers behind $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement slash fee bid after pushback from judge Lawyers representing authors and publishers in a landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement with artificial intelligence company Anthropic have lowered their bid for attorney fees in the case by hundreds of millions of dollars.
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.
- Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy† 🔥🔥In August 2006, a federal district court held that the Terrorist Surveillance Program violates the Fourth Amendment. Scholars have debated the legality and cons ...
- 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 ...
- The Duty to Vote in an American City The duty to vote is making a comeback. Compulsory voting has long struck legal scholars and political scientists as the ultimate game-changing electoral reform—
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.
- 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,
- Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Humans and transformer LMs: Abstraction drives language learning ...
- 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...
- WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents ...
- [2603.19220v1] Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation 🔥Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.19220v1: Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation ...
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)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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