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.
- Dismantling the Department of Education, Without Saying Why 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The American people deserve to know the Court’s reasoning.
- Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’ 🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation ...
- 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.
- The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food 🔥Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
- Jeffrey Epstein Hired Private Investigators to Intimidate FBI Agents: Officials 🔥When the FBI investigated Jeffrey Epstein two decades ago, he “hired private PIs to investigate the investigators,” per one law enforcement official.
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.
- Bon Voyage Bongino? 🔥🔥🔥When the FBI goes to war with the Attorney General, it’s usually polite and behind the scenes, unless it isn’t.
- Facing this Court 🔥A Sober Look at What to Expect in Trump v. Casa And What We Do About It ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 171. 7/15/25 … Pam Bondi came out of hiding today, as the AG who spent seemingly every waking hour on Fox has kept a low profile since the Epstein Files controversy exploded last week.
- July 15, 2025 Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while th...
- BREAKING: House Republicans Block Measure to Release Epstein Files as Trump Pivots on Ukraine House Republicans block measure to release Epstein files, Trump privately encourages Ukraine to strike Russia, ICE says no bond for undocumented migrants, and much more.
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.
- 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.
- What Two Judicial Rulings Mean for the Future of Generative AI 🔥Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?
- AI-generated child pornography is surging − a legal scholar explains why the fight against it is complicated and how the law could catch up 🔥US law tries to strike a balance between free speech and protecting people from harm. When it comes to child pornography, AI makes that task all the more difficult.
- Legally Speaking: Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe? U.S. district court judges have issued their rulings in two copyright law cases, Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, on whether genAI dev ...
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.
- Legally Speaking: Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe? 🔥🔥U.S. district court judges have issued their rulings in two copyright law cases, Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, on whether genAI dev ...
- 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 ...
- What Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State Constitutions State constitutional law has always been an essential component of federalism and a key to understanding the fabric of American law. It is even more important t ...
- How Design Patent Law Lost Its Shape Under U.S. law, patents are available for “any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.” Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (
- Social Networks and the Impact of the European Court of Human Rights by Shai Dothan :: SSRN Insights from Social Network Analysis reveal that the structure of the social network surrounding international courts is important for these courts' ability to ...
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.
- 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...
- Legally Speaking: Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe? 🔥🔥🔥U.S. district court judges have issued their rulings in two copyright law cases, Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, on whether genAI dev ...
- 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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