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 | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust† 🔥🔥The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
- Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave 🔥🔥
- Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party 🔥🔥
- Trump Pledges 50% Tariffs Against Brazil, Citing ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Bolsonaro 🔥
- Tillis Suggests He Regrets Vote to Confirm Hegseth, Calling Him ‘Out of His Depth’ 🔥
- Mayor and Police Chiefs Let Corruption Fester at N.Y.P.D., Suits Charge 🔥
- New U.S. Army Shaving Rule Could Affect Many Black Soldiers 🔥
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 Death of US AID 🔥🔥🔥The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale ...
- Trump Made His Epstein Problem Much Worse 🔥🔥And how this could hurt Republicans in the midterms.
- The Nobel Peace Prize Almost anyone is more deserving than Trump ...
- How to Dismantle a Democracy, Legally The unitary executive theory is a masterclass in autocratic legalism.
- July 9, 2025 On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S.
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.
- Attorney General Bailey Fights To Expose Big Tech Censorship Of President Trump As AI Chatbots Produce Fake News | Attorney General Office of Missouri 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Four senators bought AI stock while Senate considered deregulating AI - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington† 🔥🔥Senators Capito, Moran, Fetterman and Boozman all reported purchases of Google, Nvidia, Meta or Amazon stock while considering AI regulation.
- Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda† 🔥🔥A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out “weaponization.”
- Generative Baseline Hell and the Regulation of Machine-Learning Foundation Models 🔥There are no neutral baselines for foundation models.
- A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials† 🔥An imposter using AI to pose as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
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.
- The Class Action After Trump v. CASA 73 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse ___ (forthcoming 2025) † 🔥🔥To every court to consider its merits, Donald Trump’s order purporting to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocume ...
- Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness† 🔥Birthright citizenship is a right that has been enjoyed by nearly every person born on American soil for over 150 years. For those that dream and hope for Ameri ...
- Debates Over "Public Use" in the State Constitutional Conventions† 🔥Historians and legal scholars alike have previously noted that the meaning of "public use" began to change in the nineteenth century, continuing into ...
- The Bitter Ironies of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In the First Year Law School Curriculum This article severely criticizes the way first-year law teachers and casebook writers teach the famous case of Williams vs. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. The cou ...
- Beyond the Pharmaceutical Patent Arms Race† Over forty years after the Hatch-Waxman Act created a patent-based framework for balancing pharmaceutical innovation with competition, the system it established ...
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.
- Beyond Statistical Learning: Exact Learning Is Essential for General Intelligence† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sound deductive reasoning -- the ability to derive new knowledge from existing facts and rules -- is an indisputably desirable aspect of general intelligence. Despite the major advances of AI systems ...
- Log-Normal Multiplicative Dynamics for Stable Low-Precision Training of Large Networks 🔥🔥🔥Studies in neuroscience have shown that biological synapses follow a log-normal distribution whose transitioning can be explained by noisy multiplicative dynamics. Biological networks can function sta...
- Learning treatment effects while treating those in need† 🔥Many social programs attempt to allocate scarce resources to people with the greatest need. Indeed, public services increasingly use algorithmic risk assessments motivated by this goal. However, targe...
- 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...
- Limits of Safe AI Deployment: Differentiating Oversight and Control† 🔥Oversight and control (collectively, supervision) are often invoked as key levers for ensuring that AI systems are accountable, reliable, and able to fulfill governance and management requirements. Ho...
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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