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.
- Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship 🔥🔥🔥🔥An argument heading to the Supreme Court is built in part on a post-Civil War campaign that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.
- Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for ‘the Babies of Slaves.’ He’s Wrong. 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz 🔥🔥🔥Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open would mean extending the military mission ...
- British Steel on track to be fully nationalised within weeks 🔥🔥UK plans to take economic control from Chinese owner Jingye a year after stepping in to run plant, sources say ...
- Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics 🔥🔥The defense secretary is upending decades-old norms, current and former leaders say, with some cautioning that his proselytizing violates the Constitution and undermines troop cohesion.
- Trump’s ‘Rogue Judges’ Rhetoric Breaches His Oath 🔥🔥President Donald Trump asked Congress last Wednesday to pass legislation that “cracks down on rogue judges.”
- College Republicans director made racist and sexist remarks on live streams 🔥🔥Review of Kai Schwemmer’s broadcasts undermines claim ‘process of growth’ had led him to abandon bigoted views ...
- New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows 🔥
- Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth 🔥Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.
- MPs wary of move against Starmer while war is raging 🔥Even after electoral disaster, Iran war gives many MPs pause for thought about timing of leadership contest ...
- At Synagogues, Tensions Are Boiling Over 🔥Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations.
- The depleted Education Department will move out of its headquarters 🔥In August, Education Department employees will relocate to a smaller office roughly a block away, and the larger Energy Department will take over the old headquarters.
- Mounjaro maker wants NHS drug price rises in return for more investment in UK 🔥US firm Eli Lilly, which is also pushing for end to rebate scheme, optimistic about talks with ministers ...
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.
- Kristi Noem Is Gone. We Can't Forget What Happened on Her Watch. 🔥🔥🔥March 31 is Kristi Noem’s last day at DHS.
- The Collusive Presidency II 🔥Michael Flynn lied and admitted it; and the case against him was righteous.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 339. 3/30/26 🔥… US Army officials have ordered an investigation into the activities of two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters that flew over Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protest in downtown Nashville, then engaged in low-alt...
- Realistic Supreme Court Reform 🔥Live with the Brennan Center's Jesse Wegman ...
- March 30, 2026 🔥Showing reporters on Air Force One a series of posterboard images of his new ballroom last night, Trump told them: “I thought I’d do this now because it’s easier.
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.
- 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 🔥🔥
- 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.
- Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect 🔥A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
- AI headshot apps removed her hijab. A Berkeley Law researcher wants to know why. 🔥Mahwish Moazzam probes questions about AI bias, religious expression, representation, and human dignity in algorithmic systems ...
- What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad 🔥The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage ...
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 ...
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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