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.
- Trump’s Fund Puts Blanche in a Tight Spot as He Aims to Lead Justice Dept. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- G.O.P. Pulls Measure to End Iran War, Lacking Votes to Defeat It 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- The President Who Sued Himself† 🔥The Trump administration settles Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS with $1.776 billion for his allies and blanket immunity from government suits for the Trumps.
- Neanderthal Dentistry, and the Scientist Glad Not to Have Experienced It 🔥
- Trump Says He Will ‘Try and Make’ Son’s Wedding, but Timing ‘Not Good’ 🔥
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.
- The Era of the Superlosers 🔥🔥🔥Trump, Putin, and the World ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 384. 5/21/26 🔥… AOC had this incredible exchange today in a committee hearing with EPA Administrator for Water Quality, Jessica Kramer:
- NEWS: Republicans Revolt Against White House as Congress is Sent Home Early, Ebola Outbreak Rapidly Grows due to Trump Cuts, Epstein News 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Ken Paxton’s office offered a child molester ONE day in jail and NO sex offender registration. Donald Trump endorsed Paxton yesterday. 🔥Paxton let a child abuser have ONE day in jail, skip the sex offender registry and allowed him to get his law license back by 2031.
- NEWS: Republicans Blast Trump's Weaponization Fund, January 6th Defendants Rush to Get Money, Iran Rebuilds, Ebola Grows 🔥Good morning, everyone.
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.
- China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Musk Vows Appeal After Losing $150 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit† 🔥🔥🔥A jury dismissed the billionaire’s claims that OpenAI improperly transitioned from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity, saying Musk was too late in filing the suit.
- The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It. 🔥Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
- SpaceX Listed Grok's ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing† The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging Grok created sexualized images.
- Texas man accused of taking photos of women he knows and turning into AI porn, records allege Authorities said the suspect published multiple albums on the website, containing deepfake images depicting about 50 women, including individuals who are not public figures and some of whom he alleged...
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.
- Separation of Copyright Powers 🔥🔥 The United States Copyright Office’s multifarious roles in the U.S. copyright system have long prompted uncertainty about its position a ...
- Head-of-State Immunity in U.S. Courts: When Law Trumps Facts† In March 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr announced criminal charges against Nicolás Maduro and fourteen alleged co-conspirators for narco-terrorism,
- Unwritten Ultimate Responsibility: The Prime Minister and Canadian National Security Canada's Prime Minister is ultimately responsible for national security, yet powers they exercise in this domain are largely unwritten. While statute and regula ...
- Trolling the Rule of Law: Presidential Lawfare, the Stalingrad Defense, and the Lawyers This paper, part of a symposium on presidential lawfare, examines the so-called “Stalingrad Defense”—a strategy of total procedural obstruction—within the br ...
- Sidelining the Public This Article challenges the widely held view that Congress is the American government’s institution closest to the people, while administrative agencies are una ...
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...
- 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 ...
- All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMs† 🔥🔥
- ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop† 🔥First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author ...
- AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights† As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderatio...
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)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Kelly (@justkelly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Popehat Likes The Triangles (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.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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