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.
- Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI 🔥🔥🔥🔥Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”
- When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers 🔥🔥🔥In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
- Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn't Like 🔥🔥🔥Trump says he wants to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship after threatening Zohran Mamdani.
- US Justice fires nine more employees from Jack Smith's team, sources say 🔥U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday fired at least nine more Justice Department employees who worked for Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate President Donald Trump's retention of classified records and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to five people familiar with the matter.
- Opinion | Your Life Will Never Be the Same After These Tariffs (Gift Article) Justin Wolfers on how the tariffs will radically change our daily lives.
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 Public Health Dead? 🔥This is one of the questions we tease out answers to in the Democratic Institutions Seminar I teach.
- July 12, 2025 🔥On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow o...
- BREAKING: Donald Trump Considers Revoking Citizenship of Rosie O'Donnell, an American Born Citizen 🔥In a provocative and constitutionally dubious statement posted this morning on Truth Social, Donald Trump said he is “giving serious consideration” to revoking the U.S.
- NEWS: ICE Ordered to Stop Arresting People Without Probable Cause as FEMA Failures Compound 🔥ICE ordered to stop arresting people without probable cause, Kristi Noem's failure to renew contracts left Texas flood calls unanswered, a Trump supporter can't get back into the country, and more ...
- BREAKING: MAGA Turns on Trump Over Epstein as Horrific Conditions in Florida Detention Facility Exposed MAGA turns on Donald Trump over Jeffrey Epstein, Trump pleads with the public to move on from Epstein, horrific conditions at Alligator Alcatraz exposed, and Rosie O'Donnell says Trump is King Joffrey ...
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.
- Is Comedy Really Legal Again? 🔥🔥🔥🔥Yet another journalist censored on the free speech app ...
- Join Our Next Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles with WIRED Reporters 🔥Curious about generative AI and copyright? Join WIRED live on July 16 as we answer your questions about this critical topic.
- 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.
- Microsoft and OpenAI's AGI Fight Is Bigger Than a Contract 🔥A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.
- Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles Curious about generative AI and copyright? Subscribers can join WIRED live on July 16 as we answer your questions about this critical topic.
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.
- Constitutions of Ice and Fire 🔥Constitutional theory studies the birth and death of normative universes. Constitutions originate in “hot” universes, from fiery constituent power which forges ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- The Lawyers of Istanbul Snapshots from the Year 1935 In 1935, Hikmet Feridun Es published a series of interviews with lawyers in the Akşam newspaper under the title "People in Black Robes". Two ...
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.
- Dynamic Chunking for End-to-End Hierarchical Sequence Modeling 🔥🔥🔥🔥Despite incredible progress in language models (LMs) in recent years, largely resulting from moving away from specialized models designed for specific tasks to general models based on powerful archite...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Meek Models Shall Inherit the Earth ArXiv link for Meek Models Shall Inherit the Earth ...
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)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Charlotte Garden (@charlottegarden.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee and HONEYMOONING aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nora Benavidez (@attorneynora.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Too Big to Fail (@toobigtofail.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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