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.
- Opinion | In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site 🔥🔥🔥None of the six activists were convicted of any offence over break-in at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024 ...
- Leader of Paul Weiss Resigns Over Epstein Ties 🔥🔥🔥Newly released messages show Brad Karp exchanged emails about clients, son with convicted sex offender.
- Attorneys for man killed by off-duty ICE agent call on California A.G. to investigate 🔥🔥Attorneys for Keith Porter Jr. — who was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve — called for California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to take over the investigation of the incident, claimin...
- The Murder of The Washington Post 🔥Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
- Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn 🔥Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information ...
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.
- The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today 🔥🔥🔥"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
- Important Update: Major Human Trafficking Investigation Opened as Epstein Fallout Grows While Trump Demands the Public Move On 🔥🔥Good morning everyone.
- "The system sucks," or what a federal lawyer's comments really tell us about the Trump admin† 🔥Julie Le's comments are shocking, but they are a problem of the Trump admin’s own making. And it goes way beyond one lawyer new to the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office.
- Major Update: Bombshell Epstein Documents Vindicate Survivor as DOJ in Chaos Over ICE Failing to Follow Court Orders 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- February 4, 2026 🔥On the heels of last weekend’s special election in Texas, President Donald J.
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 Most Dangerous Corporation in America? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
- How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses — The Wall Street Journal† 🔥The White House aide has been an architect of aggressive immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean ...
- Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.† In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...
- The Missing Fair Use Argument in the Copyright Battle Over AI Summaries Robert Diab walks through litigation over AI overviews and the unresolved questions they raise over copyright and fair use.
- Anthropic’s launch of AI legal tool hits shares in European data services firms Stocks in Pearson, London Stock Exchange Group and Experian plunge amid fears over impact of AI European publishing and legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices after the US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic announced a tool aimed at companies’ in-house lawyers. The UK publishing group Pearson’s shares fell by 4%, while the information and analytics firm Relx plunged nearly 11% on the London stock exchange, and the Dutch software company Wolters Kluwer dropped almost 9% in Amsterdam. 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.
- Immigration is Not Invasion† 🔥🔥🔥 In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition† The Supreme Court’s recent removal cases have revived a foundational question in constitutional law: whether all administration must be controlled by ...
- Skrmetti, Trump, and the Coming Sex Equality Realignment This Essay considers the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Skrmetti alongside the Trump Administration’s recent actions. In Skrmetti, w ...
- Prescription Drug Policing: The Right to Health Information Privacy Pre- and Post-Carpenter† This article operates at the intersection of privacy law, Fourth Amendment doctrine, and public health realities triggered by the United States drug overdose ep ...
- Collective Coverage: How Group Homeowners Insurance Could Promote Climate Adaptation and Resilience Property insurers have long been heralded as potential leaders in driving adaptation and resilience to the accelerating impacts of climate change. In practice,
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.
- Are LLMs Smarter Than Chimpanzees? An Evaluation on Perspective Taking and Knowledge State Estimation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Cognitive anthropology suggests that the distinction of human intelligence lies in the ability to infer other individuals' knowledge states and understand their intentions. In comparison, our closest ...
- Perplexity Cannot Always Tell Right from Wrong† 🔥🔥Perplexity -- a function measuring a model's overall level of "surprise" when encountering a particular output -- has gained significant traction in recent years, both as a loss function and as a simp...
- Bowling with ChatGPT: On the Evolving User Interactions with Conversational AI Systems† Recent studies have discussed how users are increasingly using conversational AI systems, powered by LLMs, for information seeking, decision support, and even emotional support. However, these macro-l...
- How AI Impacts Skill Formation† ArXiv link for How AI Impacts Skill Formation ...
- Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce† ArXiv link for Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce ...
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)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gambled And Lost Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.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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