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.
- Driver Purposely Plows Car Into Crowd in Los Angeles, Injuring at Least 30 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Water company sewage pollution to halve by 2030, minister pledges 🔥🔥🔥Environment Secretary Steve Reed says the government is preparing a ...
- ‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world 🔥🔥Gulim in Kazakhstan keeps her very first one as a souvenir while Coco in Thailand breaks the law by having them, and Serena in Italy says they’re essential. But there’s still a stigma when it comes to...
- Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 73 reported killed while waiting for food 🔥Pontiff also speaks of anguish over Israeli strike on territory’s only Catholic church, which killed three people ...
- Another Hegseth aide exits as Pentagon churn continues 🔥Justin Fulcher was at the center of two unusual controversies, and officials had speculated in recent days that his days on Hegseth’s staff were numbered.
- Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. 🔥
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 War on Women 🔥🔥🔥When we said women and people who loved them needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024, it wasn’t hyperbole.
- They Say It's Biblical. I Say It's A Lie. What Conservative Christiantiy Calls Truth--and Why We Must Push Back.
- July 19, 2025 On July 20, 1969, U.S.
- NEWS: Donald Trump Turns on Supporters Who Want More Transparency Regarding Jeffrey Epstein Donald Trump turns on supporters who wants more transparency regarding Epstein, ICE turbocharges efforts to build detention spaces, ICE will use Medicaid and Social Security data, and more ...
- District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order† Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans.
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.
- Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The filing alleges “Napster-style downloading of millions of works.”
- VOA newsroom director says Lake is violating VOA charter 🔥🔥Show that a free and independent press matters and is in our country’s national interest.
- Lawyer in Mobile ‘kingpin’ case admits using AI program that produced ‘nonexistent’ citations † 🔥🔥A lawyer representing an alleged drug “kingpin” stood before a federal judge Wednesday and offered a mea culpa for the digital age: He submitted phony case citations generated by an artificial intelli...
- AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back. 🔥Authors are appealing for help from Congress and the courts after Meta and Anthropic used millions of books to create AI technology, without seeking consent.
- US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules† 🔥A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI system.
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.
- Judicial Economy in the Age of AI† 🔥Individuals do not vindicate the majority of their legal claims because of access to justice barriers. This entrenched state of affairs is now facing a disrupti ...
- The Machine Republic: Constitutional Intelligence and the Architecture of Sovereign AI by Adam Mazzocchetti :: SSRN 🔥As artificial intelligence systems gain autonomy and scale, trust based on oversight or performance is no longer sufficient. This paper introduces the Machine R ...
- The International Financial Architecture and Sovereign Debt Crisis Resolution This chapter reviews the international financial architecture and its role in sovereign debt crisis resolution.All debts are creatures of contract and s ...
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.
- Lessons from a Chimp: AI "Scheming" and the Quest for Ape Language† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We examine recent research that asks whether current AI systems may be developing a capacity for "scheming" (covertly and strategically pursuing misaligned goals). We compare current research practice...
- Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity 🔥🔥Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February-...
- Insights into a radiology-specialised multimodal large language model with sparse autoencoders† 🔥Interpretability can improve the safety, transparency and trust of AI models, which is especially important in healthcare applications where decisions often carry significant consequences. Mechanistic...
- Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing | OARR: Open Anthropology Research Repository † 🔥
- Attestable Audits: Verifiable AI Safety Benchmarks Using Trusted Execution Environments
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)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner.org)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maria Popova (@popovaprof.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Randall Eliason (@rdeliason.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.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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