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.
- “The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
- Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts 🔥🔥The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
- Minnesota launches investigation that could bring charges against US immigration officers 🔥US county attorney is ‘confident’ her office will be able to pursue charges in cases which led to criticisms of use-of-force policies ...
- U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’
- Trump says ‘special relationship is obviously not what it was’ after Starmer’s refusal to back Iran strikes – UK politics live US president doubles down on criticism of the prime minister, saying ‘he has not been helpful’
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.
- Law School Tells Students, 'You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,' For Summer Job - Above the Law 🔥🔥🔥'GPA is not a strong factor.' No kidding.
- NEWS: Military Commanders Tell Troops Trump Was 'Anointed by Jesus' to Lead Iran War as Republicans Grill Kristi Noem in Stunning Display 🔥Good afternoon.
- Major News: Gas Prices Soar, Stocks Plunge, Trump Attacks MAGA Influencers as Rupture Emerges 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 320. 3/3/26 🔥… Kristi Noem was absolutely destroyed in a senate hearing today, as one senator after another unloaded on the immoral, corrupt, and incompetent accessory to murders, kidnappings, unlawful detentions ...
- The Future, Now and Then - Now at Beehiiv 🔥Same Future, New Web Address ...
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 Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.
- With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom† 🔥🔥Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.
- AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule 🔥🔥A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”
- Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System 🔥This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick.
- OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared† Anthropic pushed for moral boundaries. OpenAI settled for softer legal ones, and now it stands to benefit as the Pentagon rushes out a politicized AI strategy during strikes on Iran.
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.
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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.
- The Lattice Representation Hypothesis of Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for The Lattice Representation Hypothesis of Large Language Models ...
- Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents? 🔥🔥A widespread practice in software development is to tailor coding agents to repositories using context files, such as AGENTS.md, by either manually or automatically generating them. Although this prac...
- Evidence for Daily and Weekly Periodic Variability in GPT-4o Performance† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in research both as tools and as objects of investigation. Much of this work implicitly assumes that LLM performance under fixed conditions (identica...
- Difference-in-differences for mediation analysis using double machine learning 🔥We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) framework with mediation for possibly multivalued discrete or continuous treatments and mediators, aimed at identifying the direct effect of the treatment ...
- User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies† 🔥Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality training data as they race to improve m...
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)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- goodlawproject.org (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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