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.
- Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn 🔥🔥🔥
- King Charles’s state visit to US will be ‘humiliation’ amid Iran war 🔥🔥🔥Visit with Camilla to go ahead in late April despite calls for delay over conflict and Trump-Starmer tensions ...
- Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn 🔥🔥
- Nigel Farage’s biggest problem? Donald Trump 🔥🔥Nearly a quarter of voters cite Reform leader’s support for US president as main reason against voting for his party ...
- Mamdani’s Toughest Mayoral Transition: Moving a Cat Into Gracie Mansion 🔥🔥New York’s new mayor is getting weekly allergy shots to build up a tolerance to felines. Bring on the Zyrtec.
- Investors tell Thames Water to ‘eat humble pie’ over failed takeover and open bids 🔥🔥CK Infrastructure says watchdog should intervene to let other firms bid after KKR pulled out ...
- Israel to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border, defence minister says 🔥Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the defence minister said on Tuesday...
- King Charles and Camilla to meet President Trump on US state visit in April 🔥Despite political tensions between the US and UK, the King will travel to Washington next month.
- In Supreme Court Justices’ Histories, a Story of Immigration in America 🔥
- Karl Turner has Labour whip suspended after criticism of Starmer and No 10 🔥MP for Hull East had recently given interview with Jody McIntyre, campaigner who stood against Jess Phillips in 2024 ...
- Fulton County’s Uphill Battle for Ballots 🔥A recent hearing offered the clearest indication yet that Judge Boulee might rule against Fulton County's motion for return of property.
- Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to hit almost £2,000 a year this summer 🔥Consumers brace for ‘awful April’ and Iran war cost hikes, which have pushed UK’s gas market past three-year highs ...
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.
- Supreme Court holds that Colorado's conversion therapy ban "censors" talk therapists 🔥🔥Justice Gorsuch wrote for the 8-1 court that the law is presumptively unconstitutional as to talk therapy. Justice Jackson dissented, writing that the “fallout could be catastrophic.“
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 340. 3/31/26. 🔥🔥… Trump melted down today after US District Judge Richard Leon ordered a halt to construction of his beloved ballroom.
- The World Has Stopped Waiting for America to Come to Its Senses 🔥🔥The world used to wait for Washington. Now, they’re moving on. While Trump fumbles the mantle of leadership, a new global order is taking shape without us.
- March 31, 2026 🔥At 4:11 this morning, President Donald J.
- Major Update: Trump Overhauls Election System, Judge Blocks White House Ballroom, Trump Says Iran War Could End Soon (He's Lying) 🔥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.
- Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-Generated Sexual Abuse Content 🔥🔥🔥Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.
- 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.
- Client Alert: Emerging Litigation Risks in Financing AI Data Centers Boom† 🔥🔥
- GitHub - instructkr/claude-code: An independent Python feature port of Claude Code, entirely rewritting from scratch using oh-my-codex. Educational Purpose only. 🔥An independent Python feature port of Claude Code, entirely rewritting from scratch using oh-my-codex. Educational Purpose only. - instructkr/claude-code ...
- Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troubling, Judge Says† 🔥During a hearing Tuesday, a district court judge questioned the Department of Defense’s motivations for labeling the Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk.
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.
- Section 230's Debts† 🔥Much attention has been paid to the unknown First Amendment permissibility of the government regulating social media platforms’ carriage practices. The Supreme ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- The Right to Use Private Property The right to use is a central element of property rights. But it is an under-analyzed aspect of the right to private property protected by the Takings Clause of ...
- 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 ...
- Raising the Threshold for Trademark Infringement to Protect Free Expression The First Amendment right to free speech limits the scope of rights in trademark law. This Article discusses different types of thresholds in trademark infringe ...
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.
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignment strategies via RLHF, system prompts, and output filters to block verbatim regurgitation of copyrighted works, and have cited the efficacy of these measures in their legal defenses against copyright infringement claims. We show that finetuning bypasses these protections: by training models to expand plot summaries into full text, a task naturally suited for commercial writing assistants, we cause GPT-4o, Gemini-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V3.1 to reproduce up to 85-90% of held-out copyrighted books, with single verbatim spans exceeding 460 words, using only semantic descriptions as prompts and no actual book text. This extraction generalizes across authors: finetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors. The effect is not specific to any training aut ...
- The Non-Delegable Duty to Think: Judicial Legitimacy and the Limits of Generative AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥From a normative perspective, the use of generative AI to automate the justification of judgments is problematic on several levels. A legal opinion is ...
- Estimating near-verbatim extraction risk in language models with decoding-constrained beam search† 🔥Recent work shows that standard greedy-decoding extraction methods for quantifying memorization in LLMs miss how extraction risk varies across sequences. Probabilistic extraction -- computing the prob...
- ARC-AGI-3: A New Challenge for Frontier Agentic Intelligence† We introduce ARC-AGI-3, an interactive benchmark for studying agentic intelligence through novel, abstract, turn-based environments in which agents must explore, infer goals, build internal models of ...
- LieCraft: A Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Deceptive Capabilities in Language Models† Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive general-purpose capabilities but also introduce serious safety risks, particularly the potential for deception as models acquire increased agency and hu...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Riana (@riana.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Mike Godwin (@mnemonic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sean Marotta (@smmarotta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dorit Reiss (@doritreiss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.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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