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.
- ‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
- New York City Is Beating the Postpandemic Shoplifting Scourge 🔥🔥🔥Plexiglass antitheft barriers have frustrated shoppers trying to buy everyday items, but signs of a turnaround are growing.
- We Took on Live Nation and Won. Here's What the Verdict Means for Fans 🔥🔥Letitia James and Jonathan Skrmetti on the bipartisan fight against Live Nation and what the historic verdict means for fans in a new op-ed.
- CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits 🔥🔥The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
- John Phelan forced out as Navy secretary after 13 months 🔥The billionaire was a significant contributor to President Donald Trump’s campaign, but officials said he clashed repeatedly with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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.
- Investigating the Good Guys† 🔥🔥🔥🔥DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.
- NEWS: Democrats Pledge 'Maximum Warfare' and Win Redistricting Battle Nationwide, Trump Fears Impeachment and Investigations, Iran Seizes Ships and Mocks Trump I will never trade my values for access.
- April 22, 2026 Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment that would temporarily redistrict the state if any other state redistricted for partisan reasons: that is, in retaliation for the partisa...
- The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche† Another dark day for DOJ.
- BREAKING: Virginia Republican Judge Strikes Down Election Results, FBI Investigates Reporter Who Looked Into Patel's Girlfriend, Trump Calls Results Rigged Good evening 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.
- The Delusion of ‘AI Justice’ 🔥🔥🔥As AI seeps deeper into our judicial system, boosters insist it will bring both fairness and efficiency. But can we really trust Judge Grok?
- Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’† 🔥🔥🔥Firm whose partners bill more than $2,000 per hour apologises to judge for software-driven errors in bankruptcy case ...
- AI hallucinated — and now an elite law firm is profusely apologizing to a federal judge† 🔥Sullivan & Cromwell apologized for AI hallucinations in a court filing. Another law firm spotted the mistakes.
- Florida AG launches criminal investigation into ChatGPT over FSU shooting† 🔥Florida's attorney general is launching a criminal investigation into the alleged role of ChatGPT in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year.
- This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright† 🔥Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
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.
- Restoration of Federal Firearms Rights: The DOJ's Administrative Revival of § 925(c) 🔥🔥This Article examines the Trump Administration's 2025 administrative reanimation of 18 U.S.C. § 925(c), a long-dormant statutory "safety valve" that a ...
- Reflecting on Human Rights in Higgs† 🔥In this article, we reflect upon three distinct human rights dimensions present in the Court of Appeal's judgment in Higgs v Farmor's School [2025] EWCA Civ 109 ...
- Are AI Model Weights Protected Speech Under the First Amendment?† 🔥This paper explores whether model weights, the trained parameters of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, constitute protected expression under the First Amend ...
- Tackling the 'Fake' Without Harming the 'News': A Paper Series on Regulatory Responses to Misinformation† Around the world, an increasing number of governments are responding to the threat posed by misinformation by passing repressive criminal content restrictions p ...
- Brief of Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Inc., in Support of Respondent Brooke Lynette Girley† In 2021, Florida civil rights lawyer Jerry Girley represented a Florida doctor in a racial discrimination lawsuit against AdventHealth of Orlando in a jury tria ...
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.
- Agents of Chaos† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord access, file systems, a...
- Separating Geometry from Probability in the Analysis of Generalization† 🔥🔥🔥The goal of machine learning is to find models that minimize prediction error on data that has not yet been seen. Its operational paradigm assumes access to a dataset $S$ and articulates a scheme for ...
- Do Large Language Models know Which Published Articles have been Retracted? 🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) can be helpful for literature search and summarisation, but retracted articles can confuse them. This article asks three open weights (offline) LLMs whether 161 high profi...
- The LLM Fallacy: Misattribution in AI-Assisted Cognitive Workflows† 🔥The rapid integration of large language models (LLMs) into everyday workflows has transformed how individuals perform cognitive tasks such as writing, programming, analysis, and multilingual communica...
- The Debate Over Understanding in AI's Large Language Models† We survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to "understand" language -- and the physical and social situations language enc...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eked Out Another Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.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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