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.
- Nigel Farage faces standards probe into £5m gift 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The probe will examine whether the Reform UK leader should have declared the gift from crypto billionaire.
- A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Hampstead Heath ponds to stay trans-inclusive with new upgrades 🔥🔥The ponds will stay trans-inclusive and will receive upgrades for more privacy for women.
- Andreessen Horowitz Is Spending on Politics Like No Other 🔥
- Second indictment of ex-FBI chief James Comey signals retaliation fears 🔥Experts say latest move by acting attorney general suggests more cases against foes amid claims of vindictive DoJ ...
- Elon Musk Said He'd Stop Political Spending. He's the Third-Largest Donor in the Midterms 🔥And now he's accompanying Trump as a guest of honor in China.
- Nigel Farage faces inquiry over £5m gift from crypto billionaire 🔥Watchdog to examine whether Reform UK leader should have declared donation received before entering parliament ...
- Angela Rayner cleared by HMRC over tax affairs paving the way for potential leadership bid 🔥Exclusive: former deputy prime minister says investigation ‘clipped my wings’ as she settles £40,000 in unpaid stamp duty ...
- Farage criticised for backing preacher who says homosexuality is ‘abomination’ 🔥Reform UK leader records video with Essex pastor to support his battle against council banning order ...
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 Redistricting Race To The Bottom 🔥🔥A Southerner's Point of View ...
- After a string of losses in its anti-trans project, DOJ turns to grand jury subpoenas in Texas 🔥At least seven judges have blocked invasive administrative subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care for minors, so DOJ appears to be trying a new tactic to get the info it wants.
- NEWS: Trump-China Summit Falters, FBI Creates 'Payback Squad,' Data Center Cuts Power for Thousands, Major Medicaid Funds Suspended 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- NEWS: Trump and Family Face Multiple Crises as China Trip Risks Derailment, Trump Tower Cancelled, Reflecting Pool a Mess, and More 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- May 13, 2026 Two weeks ago today, the U.S.
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 ...
- 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.
- Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI† 🔥Week three of Elon vs. Altman.
- How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions 🔥Danger arises when law enforcement believes that AI models are retrieving certainties rather than generating likelihoods.
- “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.
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 ...
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- LLiMba: Sardinian on a Single GPU -- Adapting a 3B Language Model to a Vanishing Romance Language† Sardinian, a Romance language with roughly one million speakers, has minimal presence in modern NLP. Commercial services do not support it, and current language models do not produce it reliably. We p...
- 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…
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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