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.
- Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.
- Texas Flood Live Updates: ‘Devastating’ Wait as Rescuers Seek Missing Campers 🔥🔥🔥
- As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas 🔥
- Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on His Own Citizens 🔥
- Opinion | Donald Trump, Our Foundering Father 🔥
- Why the Texas floods were so severe 🔥Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.
- Goodbye to All That† 🔥My resignation from the FBI.
- ‘The film wouldn’t even be made today’: the story behind Back to the Future at 40 🔥The time travel comedy was a surprise smash in 1985 and remains a Hollywood touchpoint and as it reaches a major anniversary, those who made it share their memories ...
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.
- Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm 🔥🔥🔥Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA ...
- When the Cuts Hit Home 🔥I am not an alarmist.
- Coffee with Katie & Joyce It was a tough week, heading into the nation’s 249th birthday, and I know you have a lot of questions now that the fireworks are over.
- July 5, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.
- Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
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 budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI† 🔥🔥🔥Silicon Valley wins big in the accelerated authoritarianism of Trump's beautiful bill ...
- James Carville Is Right to Panic — Because Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob† 🔥Forget Jan 6th. Trump’s next move is smarter, and far more dangerous: use the courts, AI & right-wing militias to erase millions of Americans from the vote — legally. It’s not a theory. It’s a plan.
- Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press† To advance the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, the Republican budget bill is set to fund a major expansion of federal surveillance.
- Exclusive: Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers Alphabet's Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers, which has also asked for an interim measure to prevent allegedly irreparable harm to them, according to a document seen by Reuters.
- Europe's biggest companies call for two-year pause on EU's landmark AI Act - SiliconANGLE Europe's biggest companies call for two-year pause on EU's landmark AI Act - SiliconANGLE ...
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.
- Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship 🔥Senator McCain was born in 1936 in the Canal Zone to U.S. citizen parents. The Canal Zone was territory controlled by the United States, but it was not incorpor ...
- Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets† This paper argues that blockchain technology solves a problem the traditional securities markets still haven't fixed: the lack of a more direct, efficient, and ...
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...
- Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following† ArXiv link for Generalizing Verifiable Instruction Following ...
- LeanConjecturer: Automatic Generation of Mathematical Conjectures for Theorem Proving† We introduce LeanConjecturer, a pipeline for automatically generating university-level mathematical conjectures in Lean 4 using Large Language Models (LLMs). Our hybrid approach combines rule-based co...
- Cats Confuse Reasoning LLM: Query Agnostic Adversarial Triggers for Reasoning Models† We investigate the robustness of reasoning models trained for step-by-step problem solving by introducing query-agnostic adversarial triggers - short, irrelevant text that, when appended to math probl...
- LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users† ArXiv link for LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users ...
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)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Nora Benavidez (@attorneynora.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Siva (@sivav.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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