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.
- 'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
- Venice Braces for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's Wedding 🔥Some Venetians are concerned about the impact the three-day event—which includes 80 private jets and more than 30 private water taxis—will have on their city.
- Brother to Bruh: How Gen Alpha slang has its origins in the 16th century What was once another shortened way to call a friend "brother," the word "bruh" is now being used widely, especially by Gen Alpha kids, to address parents, express sadness, frustration, happiness and ...
- Behind Closed Doors, Harvard Officials Debate a Risky Truce With Trump
- Snake Venom, Urine, and a Quest to Live Forever: Inside a Biohacking Conference Emboldened by MAHA WIRED attended a biohacking conference filled with unorthodox and often unproven anti-aging treatments. Adherents revealed how the Make America Healthy Again movement has given them a renewed fervor.
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.
- Packing the Courts 🔥🔥Civil Discourse offers a unique perspective on issues at the intersection of law and politics based on my 25 years at the Justice Department and service as a U.S.
- Congress Fights Back...Against Congress 🔥Congressional Republicans threaten their own institutions to protect Trump ...
- How To Talk To Your Senators About Emil Bove 🔥So much has happened since Donald Trump was convicted in a Manhattan courtroom on May 30, 2024, reelected, and returned to the White House, that you should be forgiving of yourself if some of the deta...
- June 25, 2025 At The Hague, a city in the Netherlands, today for a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Trump showed that he cannot let go of the intelligence assessment that his military strike...
- NEWS: Donald Trump Admits Uncertainty Over Whether Iran's Nuclear Sites Were Destroyed "Daddy" Trump admits uncertainty over whether Iran's nuclear sites were destroyed, Zohran Mamdani secures a historic victory in New York, a woman in ICE custody miscarried due to horrific conditions ...
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.
- Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 🔥🔥🔥A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal.
- Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch 🔥🔥🔥A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors' books.
- Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims 🔥🔥While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
- Millions of Résumés Never Make It Past the Bots. One Man Is Trying to Find Out Why. 🔥After more than 100 unsuccessful job applications, Derek Mobley sued software firm Workday for discrimination, claiming its algorithms screened him out.
- Tesla's robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators | TechCrunch 🔥The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Tesla after numerous videos posted online appear to show Tesla robotaxis violating traffic laws in South Austin, where the com...
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.
- Caste Discrimination in NY – Starting a Conversation 🔥🔥🔥Despite rapid socioeconomic ascent of Indian Americans in the U.S., caste hierarchies continue to structure inequality within the Indian diaspora. This working ...
- Disobeying Lawful But Unethical Orders in the Army 🔥This paper examines three competing answers to the question of when an officer should disobey a lawful but unethical order—unethical in the sense that it violat ...
- War Crimes Trials before Domestic Courts in Ukraine -Making the Case for a Differentiated Approach to International Law This article analyzes how Ukrainian courts have addressed key legal issues when dealing with domestic war crimes prosecutions. It review ...
- Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation Offenders: Who and Why? Since 2011, the prosecution of Asian men for Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation (GLCSE) in the UK has led to two opposing positions: (1) Asian men have b ...
- The Criminal Class Action Over the past ten years, in a variety of high-profile corporate scandals, prosecutors have sought billions of dollars in restitution for crimes ranging from env ...
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.
- Who Does What in Deep Learning? Multidimensional Game-Theoretic Attribution of Function of Neural Units 🔥🔥🔥🔥Neural networks now generate text, images, and speech with billions of parameters, producing a need to know how each neural unit contributes to these high-dimensional outputs. Existing explainable-AI ...
- Agonistic Image Generation: Unsettling the Hegemony of Intention 🔥🔥Current image generation paradigms prioritize actualizing user intention - "see what you intend" - but often neglect the sociopolitical dimensions of this process. However, it is increasingly evident ...
- AutomataGPT: Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata ArXiv link for AutomataGPT: Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata ...
- A Fourier Explanation of AI-music Artifacts The rapid rise of generative AI has transformed music creation, with millions of users engaging in AI-generated music. Despite its popularity, concerns regarding copyright infringement, job displaceme...
- Red Teaming Large Language Models for Healthcare We present the design process and findings of the pre-conference workshop at the Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (2024) entitled Red Teaming Large Language Models for Healthcare, which took...
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." ;)
- @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org
- @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
- @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
- @emptywheel.bsky.social
- @maxkennerly.bsky.social
- @bcfinucane.bsky.social
- @leahlitman.bsky.social
- @justinhendrix.bsky.social
- @lawfaremedia.org
- @lawrencehurley.bsky.social
- @coreyryung.bsky.social
- @kenwhite.bsky.social
- @johnpfaff.bsky.social
- @joedunman.bsky.social
- @davidmenschel.bsky.social
- @dburbach.bsky.social
- @evanbernick.bsky.social
- @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
- @stevevladeck.bsky.social (promoted)
- @adhaque.bsky.social (promoted)
- @questauthority.bsky.social (relegated)
- @toobigtofail.bsky.social (relegated)
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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