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.
- Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die in ICE detention this year.
- Judge Zahid Quraishi Ejects New Jersey Federal Prosecutor From Court, Orders Testimony on Office Leadership Structure (Gift Article) 🔥Judge Zahid Quraishi of U.S. District Court ejected a federal prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered the three leaders designated to run the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey to return to court ...
- The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong 🔥By emphasizing the number of people killed per mile rather than deaths per capita, traffic safety groups risk normalizing the factors that make American roads so deadly.
- Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy 🔥
- Judge Ejects Federal Prosecutor From Court, Orders His Bosses to Testify 🔥
- Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies 🔥
- Judge Ejects Federal Prosecutor From Court and Orders Bosses to Testify 🔥
- Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms 🔥
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.
- Snapshot: He Is Out of His Mind 🔥🔥This is increasingly obvious—and increasingly dangerous ...
- A Subtle Win for the First Amendment 🔥🔥In 2022, Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation.
- NEWS: Articles of Impeachment for Bondi Introduced, Some Airports May Shutdown, SAVE Act in Trouble, Russia Helps Iran Even More 🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Reform’s patriots don’t want to pay for their country 🔥The party's deputy leader imagines a Britain in which everyone expects to benefit from the system, but no one feels much obligation to sustain it.
- The Crackup of the Trump Elite 🔥Watch now | A few thoughts on the Joe Kent resignation ...
- March 17, 2026 🔥Yesterday, 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.
- CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
- Witness Caught Using Smartglasses in Court Blames it all on ChatGPT† A judge in London tossed out witness testimony after discovering the man was receiving coaching through a pair of smartglasses.
- Musk's Grok Chatbot Made Sexual Images of Minors, Teens Allege in Lawsuit Three Jane Does allege they were minors when they purportedly were depicted in sexually explicit deepfake images created with Elon Musk's Grok chatbot.
- Trump's AI czar calls for U.S. to 'get out' of war and warns Iran has a 'dead man's switch' that could render Gulf states almost uninhabitable | Fortune† "So there's a lot of scenarios here, a lot of really frightening scenarios about where escalation could lead," Sacks said.
- 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.
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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