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.
- U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.
- Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. struggles to secure indictments in protest cases 🔥🔥🔥U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli has aggressively pushed for indictments in the high-profile prosecutions of people arrested during demonstrations against federal immigration actions in Southern California, le...
- Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told 🔥The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.
- French President Macron sues right-wing podcaster Candace Owens The lawsuit alleges that the podcaster promoted “outlandish” claims, including that Brigitte Macron was born a man. An Owens spokesperson said she “is not shutting up.”
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.
- When you’re a star, the Supreme Court lets you do it 🔥🔥🔥SCOTUS is enabling Trump's assault on American institutions ...
- Class 17. Election Meddling 101 Understanding the theory behind foreign election interference and why whataboutism doesn't really work.
- BREAKING: Trump "Furious" About Not Being Able to Control Epstein Messaging as Judge Denies Release of Transcripts We have breaking news out of Florida that is already reverberating through Washington: a federal judge on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the ...
- Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers A hundred industrial sources of carcinogenic air toxics will now be exempt from Biden-era rules intended to reduce cancer risk around the country.
- July 23, 2025 This morning, President Donald J.
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.
- Trump Says He's 'Getting Rid of Woke' and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech 🔥The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump's newly released AI Action Plan.
- Trump aims to get rid of AI regulations and finance exports to win AI race President Trump says he wants to make sure the United States wins the artificial intelligence race. The White House says fewer regulations will help.
- Analysis | Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate† Critics unveiled their own “People’s AI Action Plan” ahead of new executive orders expected to address energy and “woke” AI.
- FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up nonexistent studies. | CNN Politics Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is getting better, and use is not mandatory.
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.
- Foreword: To A Conservative Warren Court 🔥🔥Ideological conflict has masked an underlying continuity in the American legal system. In recent years, the Supreme Court -- while obviously subject to fierce c ...
- 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 ...
- The Authoritarian Fourth Amendment There is widespread concern that the second Trump administration raises questions about the health of our constitutional republic. With attacks on political riv ...
- The Decline & Fall of the US News Rankings† Have the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings become irrelevant? The ostensible purpose of the US News law school rankings is to give prospective la ...
- 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 ...
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.
- 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...
- Taxonomizing Representational Harms using Speech Act Theory Representational harms are widely recognized among fairness-related harms caused by generative language systems. However, their definitions are commonly under-specified. We make a theoretical contribu...
- BRUM: Robust 3D Vehicle Reconstruction from 360° Sparse Images Accurate 3D reconstruction of vehicles is vital for applications such as vehicle inspection, predictive maintenance, and urban planning. Existing methods like Neural Radiance Fields and Gaussian…
- YOLOR-Based Multi-Task Learning Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to learn multiple tasks using a single model and jointly improve all of them assuming generalization and shared semantics. Reducing conflicts between tasks during joint…
- HiSplat: Hierarchical 3D Gaussian Splatting for Generalizable Sparse-View Reconstruction Reconstructing 3D scenes from multiple viewpoints is a fundamental task in stereo vision. Recently, advances in generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting have enabled high-quality novel view synthesis for…
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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