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.
- ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit 🔥🔥🔥🔥The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship and slashing funding to Harvard University - has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.
- Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert. They evacuated an hour later. 🔥🔥🔥More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.
- Opinion | Trump Canceled Their Salaries. These Health Workers in Uganda Showed Up Anyway.
- Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
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 Roberts court allows Trump's gutting of the Education Dep't in a lawless ruling 🔥🔥🔥Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that "it is the Judiciary’s duty to check ... lawlessness, not expedite it." Also: In two Sunday essays, a contrasting reality of this moment.
- Disillusioned Trump Fans Respond to Him on Epstein 🔥🔥Truth Social was on fire responding to Trump's Epstein post.
- Resistance Summer School is officially in Session! 🔥Columbia cancelled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.
- July 14, 2025 Trump appointees insist they have a “mandate” to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.
- NEWS: Undocumented Farm Workers Feel Like ICE is "Hunting them like Animals" Undocumented farm workers feel like they are being "hunted like animals," Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly wants to tell all to Congress, Tariffs shutdown 99-year-old clock business, and Trump is booed ...
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 ...
- Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features 🔥🔥Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says ...
- 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.
- What Two Judicial Rulings Mean for the Future of Generative AI Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?
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 ...
- 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 ...
- Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, Rebellion, Resistance When and how should an individual or an institution act in response to extortion? What should an individual or an institution do to oppose tyranny, illegality,
- 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...
- Beyond vividness: Content analysis of induced hallucinations reveals the hidden structure of individual differences in visual imagery A rapidly alternating red and black display known as Ganzflicker induces visual hallucinations that reflect the generative capacity of the visual system. Recent proposals regarding the imagery spectru...
- Can AI-predicted complexes teach machine learning to compute drug binding affinity? We evaluate the feasibility of using co-folding models for synthetic data augmentation in training machine learning-based scoring functions (MLSFs) for binding affinity prediction. Our results show th...
- The Empty Signifier Problem: Towards Clearer Paradigms for... In this paper, we address the concept of "alignment" in large language models (LLMs) through the lens of post-structuralist socio-political theory, specifically examining its parallels to empty signifiers....
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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