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.
- Usha Vance’s New Life in Trump’s Washington 🔥🔥🔥
- Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban 🔥🔥🔥
- With Supreme Court Ruling, Another Check on Trump’s Power Fades 🔥🔥
- Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green 🔥Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s ...
- The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch 🔥That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
- Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed. 🔥Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
- UVA President’s Resignation Reflects a New Front in Trump’s Bid to Remake Higher Education 🔥The school is under pressure to unwind its diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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.
- Is Zohran Mamdani a Sign of America's Future? 🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- June 28, 2025 🔥Last night just before midnight, Republicans released their new version of the omnibus budget reconciliation bill.
- NEWS: Budget Bill in Major Trouble as Vote Scheduled for Today A key Republican vote comes out against the Senate budget bill, ICE detains a six year old boy with cancer causing him to miss treatment, the Senate rejects a war powers resolution, and more.
- The Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood Decision Isn’t Just Bad for Health Care—It’s Bad Law Endangering Medicaid and civil rights is all in a day’s work for the Republican-appointed justices ...
- Medicaid Saved My Life. Now I’m Fighting to Save the Law I Teach. The Friday before the 2024 presidential election, I talked with Bob Casey at a reproductive rights event in the Pittsburgh suburbs.
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.
- Why Did Microsoft Invest In OpenAI?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris As ever, thank you for subscribing to Where's Your Ed At Premium. Email me at ez@betteroffline.com with the subject header "Premium" sometime if you...
- Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features† 🔥🔥🔥Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says ...
- Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office 🔥The two men appeared at the US Copyright Office days after the Trump administration fired its leader, who had just published a report about the use of copyrighted materials for AI training.
- Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea? 🔥Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 06/27/2025 · Bonus · 11m ...
- Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books 🔥Meta may defeat authors’ torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.
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.
- Private Enforcement at the Founding and Article II† 🔥🔥Article II vests the executive power in the President. Yet Congress routinely empowers private plaintiffs, not just the President, to enforce public regulatory ...
- Roads to Nowhere in Four States: State and Local Governments in the Atlantic Southeast Facing Sea-Level Rise 🔥Coastal communities are becoming increasingly aware of the risks to local infrastructure from more frequent and severe flooding, more extreme storm surges, and ...
- NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment† 🔥Over the past quarter-century, industrial speech law and policy have converged on novel First Amendment questions about the regulation of the dominant Internet ...
- Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship† Ex parte Merryman is iconic. It is, arguably, the first major American case testing the scope of lawful military authority during war time. Not only during a w ...
- Intentionally Unintentional: GenAI Exceptionalism and the First Amendment† This paper challenges the assumption that courts should grant First Amendment protections to outputs from large generative AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemin ...
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.
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task 🔥🔥🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Continual Learning as Computationally Constrained Reinforcement Learning† 🔥ArXiv link for Continual Learning as Computationally Constrained Reinforcement Learning ...
- The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities 🔥Rapidly improving AI capabilities and autonomy hold significant promise of transformation, but are also driving vigorous debate on how to ensure that AI is safe, i.e., trustworthy, reliable, and secur...
- Characterization and Mitigation of Training Instabilities in Microscaling Formats† 🔥ArXiv link for Characterization and Mitigation of Training Instabilities in Microscaling Formats ...
- Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models† 🔥ArXiv link for Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models ...
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)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Siva (@sivav.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bad Popehat With Evil Intentions (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.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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