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.
- FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Shunned Myanmar leader thrilled at US contact after Trump tariff letter 🔥🔥Min Aung Hlaing expresses ‘sincere appreciation’ for letter from US president threatening 40% tariff ...
- Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI 🔥Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
- Targeting Brazil, Trump Tests Legal Limit of His Tariff Powers
- Aware of Trump's Desire for Retribution, Experts Appear Shy to Speak Up (Gift Article) A New York Times investigative reporter explains how a problem he encountered while reporting reveals something important about the second Trump era.
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.
- An Angry Judge in the Abrego Garcia Case 🔥🔥🔥Has the federal judiciary reached critical mass?
- Breaking: Trans, nonbinary passport protections remain in effect, judge rules Judge Kobick denied DOJ's request to allow the State Department to enforce Rubio's anti-trans/anti-nonbinary passport policy after the SCOTUS Skrmetti decision.
- July 11, 2025 A picture tonight as we celebrate a family wedding this weekend.
- Are We Thinking Too Much About Politics? It's worth asking.
- BREAKING: DACA Recipient Sent to Everglades Detention Center as DOJ Attorney Sounds the Alarm Over Pam Bondi A DACA recipient was sent to "Alligator Alcatraz," a DOJ attorney is sounding the alarm over Pam Bondi, ICE targets youth basketball team with all American citizens, and Trump memes Superman ...
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.
- A recent high-profile case of AI hallucination serves as a stark warning† 🔥🔥🔥🔥MyPillow creator Mike Lindell's lawyers were fined thousands for submitting a legal filing riddled with AI-generated mistakes. It highlights a dilemma of balancing technology and using it responsibly.
- A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump† 🔥He’s threatening them with deceptive business practice complaints.
- European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems† 🔥Makers of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems face obligations for transparency, copyright protection and public safety. The rules are not enforceable until next year.
- America's largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI America's largest power grid is under strain as data centers and AI chatbots consume power faster than new plants can be built.
- $6K Sanctions for Apparent AI Hallucinations in Coomer v. Lindell / My Pillow Election-Related Libel Suit From Judge Nina Wang (D. Colo.) today in Coomer v. Lindell: In preparation for trial in this matter, the Court...
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.
- Firearms in Sensitive Places and the Military Appropriations Crisis of 1879 🔥In the wake of Bruen and Rahimi, one of the most contentious issues of Second Amendment litigation is the constitutionalit ...
- Modeling Immunity in International and Domestic Courts† 🔥 Into what can sometimes appear a chasm of impunity, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji has published a timely new book and call to action, End of Immunity: Holdin ...
- 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 ...
- The Double Patenting Puzzle† It’s a simple rule: one patent per invention. This is easy to enforce when patent claims in two patents are identical, but what if th ...
- Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centered Theory of Judging "Virtue jurisprudence" is a normative and explanatory theory of law that utilizes the resources of virtue ethics to answer the central questions of le ...
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.
- Preemptive Solving of Future Problems: Multitask Preplay in Humans and Machines† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Humans can pursue a near-infinite variety of tasks, but typically can only pursue a small number at the same time. We hypothesize that humans leverage experience on one task to preemptively learn solu...
- Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE): guidance and recommendations ** If you would like to provide feedback on RAISE, please use this feedback form https://forms.office.com/e/EDYvBPEBrd ** The RAISE guidance is currently written in three documents. The first documen...
- Automated Design of Agentic Systems Researchers are investing substantial effort in developing powerful general-purpose agents, wherein Foundation Models are used as modules within agentic systems (e.g. Chain-of-Thought, Self-Reflection...
- Lost in Retraining: Roaming the Parameter Space of Exponential Families Under Closed-Loop Learning Closed-loop learning is the process of repeatedly estimating a model from data generated from the model itself. It is receiving great attention due to the possibility that large neural network models ...
- A theory of appropriateness with applications to generative artificial intelligence What is appropriateness? Humans navigate a multi-scale mosaic of interlocking notions of what is appropriate for different situations. We act one way with our friends, another with our family, and yet...
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 HONEYMOONING 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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