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.
- Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction 🔥🔥🔥🔥Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.
- Britain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus | Jonathan Freedland 🔥🔥Ten years after the vote, our economy is battered – and our national conversation darkens by the day. Still, there is reason for hope, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland ...
- Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72 🔥The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
- Labour deputy says Farage is a threat to democracy and calls for misinformation clampdown 🔥Lucy Powell calls for tougher laws to tackle misinformation and says Reform UK has benefited from bots and troll farms ...
- Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims 🔥A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.
- Postal Service Frees Up Enough Cash to Keep Operating for ‘Several Years’ 🔥
- Thames Water should be nationalised, says Andy Burnham 🔥Exclusive: Labour’s Makerfield byelection candidate advocates public ownership of water companies as he prepares for potential leadership bid ...
- Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Albanian resort plan sets off days of protests 🔥The protests, raising concerns about conservation, transparency and the project’s ties to the Trump family, began Sunday in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
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.
- Trump's Military Dictatorship Budget 🔥🔥🔥🔥The proposal only makes sense as a bribe ...
- June 5, 2026 🔥President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had good news for the American people when he gave his twenty-ninth Fireside Chat on June 5, 1944.
- Five Questions With Some of the Best Friends a Democracy Could Have 🔥This week we have a special Five Questions.
- NEWS: SAVE Act is Dead, Congress Members Call for 25th Amendment, Trump Discussed Marking Living People "Dead," and More Good morning, everyone.
- Important Friday Night Update: DOJ Begins Work to Protect Trump, his Family, his Companies from Prosecution as Fears Grow 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.
- Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist† 🔥🔥🔥🔥“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t...
- xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity† 🔥🔥🔥Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
- EFF Testifies to Congress on Protecting Americans’ Rights from Government AI† 🔥Governments must not adopt emerging and powerful AI technologies without also adopting strong and clear safeguards to protect Constitutional rights, EFF Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia tes...
- Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked† The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.
- New claimants seek to sue Elon Musk’s xAI after Labour MP’s test case Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI tool New claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk’s company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato launched a test case against the firm over demeaning sexualised material created by its Grok AI tool. A handful of complainants contacted Asato’s lawyer on Thursday in response to coverage of the MP’s decision to sue Musk’s company for damages over its creation and circulation of fake images of her in a bikini and an AI-created video that she said showed her “being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault”. Continue reading...
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.
- Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution† 🔥🔥The controversy over birthright citizenship in the United States and the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment has exposed two urgent needs in American constituti ...
- Crisis and the Constitution: The Role of Civil Liberties in Times of National Security Threat† In this Article, we contribute to the unfolding debate around civil liberties and civil rights in times of political, cultural, and health crises. As this Artic ...
- King, Parliament, and taxation in English constitutional history and the tariffs case† This paper traces the history of the English constitutional principle that the crown cannot impose taxation without the consent of Parliament. It analyzes the i ...
- Indonesian Constitutional Cases Challenge PDP Law A two-year grace period has come and gone since Indonesia’s first omnibus Personal Data Protection Act (PDP Law) was enacted in 2022 and the law came ...
- India's Supreme Court threatens Meta over WhatsApp data sharing What happens in India matters a great deal to Meta because India is Meta’s largest market for its WhatsApp service, with up to 853.8 million monthl ...
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.
- AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative† 🔥🔥AI's central challenge is shifting from capability to coexistence. The dominant paradigm in AI research focuses on developing powerful agents that treat the world as an exogenous and stationary source...
- Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End Co-Design of Neural Network Processors: From Training and Mapping to Fabrication† 🔥ArXiv link for Uncertainty-Aware End-to-End Co-Design of Neural Network Processors: From Training and Mapping to Fabrication ...
- Answer Presence Drives RAG Rewriting Gains 🔥Retrieval-augmented QA pipelines often route retrieved passages through an LLM \emph{rewriter} before a smaller reader, lifting F1 by tens of points on multi-hop benchmarks; this gain is typically cre...
- Agent Memory: Characterization and System Implications of Stateful Long-Horizon Workloads ArXiv link for Agent Memory: Characterization and System Implications of Stateful Long-Horizon Workloads ...
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)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Jenn (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Innocent🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tear Down The Statue of Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.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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