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.
- This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.
- Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges 🔥🔥🔥🔥Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida ...
- Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him 🔥A comprehensive analysis of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, a serious test for the court system.
- This renowned climate scientist says this is the most difficult time for climate science he’s ever seen Benjamin Santer has faced pushback on climate research in the past. But this environment feels different ‘because it's so targeted.’
- U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine
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.
- July 21, 2025 (Monday) 🔥🔥After a long, productive day, I thought I'd just hop out on the water for an hour or so before I started writing tonight's letter.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 175. 7/21/25 🔥… NJ US Attorney Alina Habba faces judgment day tomorrow, as her 120-day interim appointment expires and she doesn’t have the votes to get confirmed by the Senate.
- How Trump’s Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans 🔥What research tells us about how Trump policies are bad for your health ...
- NEWS: ICE Punishes Migrant By Forcing Him to Stay Outside in Heat and Mosquitos 🔥ICE punishes a migrant by forcing him to stay in the hot sun with mosquitos, Trump releases the MLK documents, but not the Epstein documents, ICE is flooding the zone in New York, and more.
- Following Trump’s pardons, a variety of Jan. 6 rioters convicted of additional crimes 🔥With his Jan. 6 pardons, the president let a bunch of criminals back out onto American streets. Some of them ended up behind bars again.
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.
- 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.
- It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says Judges pushed to bone up on AI or risk destroying their court’s authority.
- Tell POLITICO Management: AI should work with journalists, not against us! Last year, PEN Guild members ratified a groundbreaking first contract that included some of the strongest provisions in the industry around artificial intelligence. These protections not only gave uni...
- California A.B. 412 Stalls Out—A Win for Innovation and Fair Use A.B. 412, the flawed California bill that threatened small developers in the name of AI “transparency,” has been delayed and turned into a two-year bill. That means it won’t move forward in 2025—a sig...
- 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.
- Settlements of Adhesion in Eviction Court 🔥🔥Eviction cases make up over a quarter of all cases filed in the federal and state civil courts and have enormous consequences for tenants, who are nearly alw ...
- Thayerian Deference and Constitutional Interpretation In this essay, I briefly introduce James Bradley Thayer’s theory of judicial deference and its place in historical debates over judicial review and consti ...
- Trait Empathy Predicts Purposivist Rule Application: Nationally Representative Survey Evidence People often disagree about whether a rule’s text or its spirit should govern its application. To what extent is this disagreement explained by personality trai ...
- State Constitutional Law Teaching Materials for 1L Constitutional Law Classes (Supplement, 2d Ed. 2024) This set of materials, intended for use in a 1L Constitutional Law course, offers a concise introduction to state constitutions and state constitutional princip ...
- AI Rights for Human Flourishing† AI companies are racing to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): AI systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work. If they succeed,
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.
- 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-...
- AI-guided digital intervention with physiological monitoring reduces intrusive memories after experimental trauma 🔥Trauma prevalence is vast globally. Evidence-based digital treatments can help, but most require human guidance. Human guides provide tailored instructions and responsiveness to internal cognitive sta...
- The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models† 🔥Current large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emerging capabilities in social intelligence tasks, including implicature resolution (Sravanthi et al. (2024)) and theory-of-mind reasoning (Shap...
- Understanding Generative AI Risks for Youth: A Taxonomy Based on Empirical Data 🔥
- Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks 🔥LLM use in annotation is becoming widespread, and given LLMs' overall promising performance and speed, simply "reviewing" LLM annotations in interpretive tasks can be tempting. In subjective annotatio...
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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