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.
- Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, and His Estate Is Reaping Millions 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds 🔥
- Justice Department Drops Case Against Plastic Surgeon Over Fake Covid-19 Cards 🔥
- Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries 🔥
- American Allies Want to Redraw the World’s Trade Map, Minus the U.S. 🔥
- Epstein reportedly hoped to develop super-race of humans with his DNA 🔥Registered sex offender hoped to seed human race with his DNA by impregnating 20 women at a time, New York Times reports ...
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.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 169. 🔥🔥… Trump attempted to put out the fire with his MAGA base on the Epstein files controversy with a lengthy post on Truth Social and only made things worse.
- July 13, 2025 🔥🔥This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.
- NEWS: MAGA Won't Let Epstein Files Go as ICE Turbocharges Operations 🔥MAGA won't let Epstein files go despite Trump wanting them to, ICE is turbocharging operations with $170 billion in new funding, a 71-year-old grandma, U.S. citizen, was detained by ICE, and more ...
- Weekend Reading and Listening Teach-In with Barbara McQuade and my latest writing ...
- Deportation nation: a roundup As masked ICE enforcers rampage through American streets and workplaces, non-citizens aren't their only targets.
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 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.
- Figure AI founder Brett Adcock says there will soon be as many humanoid robots as humans "It's literally going to feel like a sci-fi movie," Figure AI founder Brett Adcock says.
- A more intelligent approach to AI regulation Legislators should focus on mitigating specific harms rather than anticipating broader concerns ...
- Siemens and SAP call for EU to revise its AI regulations - FAZ Siemens and SAP CEOs have urged the European Union to revise its artificial intelligence legislation, saying the current rules stifle innovation.
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 ...
- This Is (NOT) an Emergency: On Trump's "Reciprocal" Tariffs and the Judicial Decisions Declaring Them Illegal On April 2, 2025, "Liberation Day," President Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose the highest US tariff ...
- 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 Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI 🔥🔥Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word "intelligence" is being used as...
- 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...
- Learning from Videos for 3D World: Enhancing MLLMs with 3D Vision Geometry Priors Previous research has investigated the application of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in understanding 3D scenes by interpreting them as videos. These approaches generally depend on…
- Reasoning-Grounded Natural Language Explanations for Language Models We propose a large language model explainability technique for obtaining faithful natural language explanations by grounding the explanations in a reasoning process. When converted to a sequence of to...
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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