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.
- Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
- ‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 🔥🔥Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say ...
- The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Blue 🔥🔥
- Minority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gains 🔥🔥Many members of minority communities fear results in Birmingham and elsewhere could lead to rise in hostile rhetoric ...
- MPs demand Reform suspend candidate over claims he celebrated rape of Sikh women 🔥West Midlands Labour MPs write to borough Reform leader after alleged posts by Stuart Prior ...
- Another crunch moment for Starmer as he pleads with Labour MPs not to topple him 🔥The prime minister will seek to reset his premiership in a speech on Monday.
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.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 376. 🔥🔥… It appears that the latest imminent peace deal is not that imminent.
- May 10, 2026 🔥🔥There were two very different celebrations in Russia and in Hungary yesterday.
- The Week Ahead 🔥May 10, 2026 ...
- Major Good News and Some Big Updates Coming on Mother's Day!! 🔥Good morning everyone, and Happy Mother’s Day!
- Important Sunday News Update and Big Parnas Perspective Announcements 🔥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 Humanities Score a Victory Against Trump 🔥🔥🔥DOGE used ChatGPT to cancel research grants. A federal judge wouldn’t have it.
- Despite Fukushima Trump hands nuclear regulation to Silicon Valley - Asia Times† 🔥🔥This article was originally published by ProPublica. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National ...
- University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is 'Unlawfully Discriminatory' to Data Centers 🔥🔥The University promised “to pursue all rights and claims for necessary relief” if a small Michigan community won’t pump water into a data center.
- DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules† 🔥DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to scan grants for terms related to DEI.
- In AI Age, Recruiters Spend 11 Seconds A Resume. Here’s What They Notice. These four tips should make you stand out at a time when hiring managers barely scan a resume—or have AI do it for them.
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.
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing† “Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
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 that...
- AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot† 🔥🔥Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review quality, consistency, and timeliness. Recent advances in AI have led the co...
- Human-Guided Complexity-Controlled Abstractions Neural networks often learn task-specific latent representations that fail to generalize to novel settings or tasks. Conversely, humans learn discrete representations (i.e., concepts or words) at a va...
- How to Assess AI Literacy: Misalignment Between Self-Reported and Objective-Based Measures† The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in K-12 education highlights the need for psychometrically-tested measures of teachers' AI literacy. Existing work has primarily relied on eithe...
- The Fallacy of Sustainable Generative AI: Limitations in EU Environmental Regulation of Data Centres and Paths Forward In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models, Generative AI and larger frontier AI models, data centres create a significant environmental ...
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)
- Popehat Dropping To Its Grave (@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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