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.
- Justice Dept. finishes second day of Ghislaine Maxwell interview 🔥🔥🔥🔥Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he would meet with former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida for a second day.
- US states to get $608 million from FEMA to build migrant detention centers 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's push to expand capacity to hold migrants.
- Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs 🔥🔥🔥The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
- Cabinet ministers and third of MPs call on Starmer to recognise state of Palestine 🔥Exclusive: Rayner and Cooper understood to back action as 221 MPs sign letter calling for UK recognition of statehood ...
- Opinion | The Line Trump Crossed by Accusing Obama of Treason 🔥
- Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest 🔥Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets ...
- 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...
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.
- Sanity, Madness and the American Promise 🔥🔥A view from Finland ...
- Beach Week Book Club 🔥Having successfully managed a week of moving house with my daughter and then the almost-final proofread of my book this week (just one quick final proofread in a couple of weeks and then it’s off to t...
- July 25, 2025 🔥“We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 178. 7/25/25 🔥… Fox reported that Ghislaine Maxwell is seeking a pardon from Trump after her second meeting with Dep.
- NEWS: 18 Year Old Told "You Have No Rights" During Arrest as Woman Denied Care Because She's Unmarried A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care because she's unmarried, Trump says Bondi never told him he was in the Epstein files, an 18 year old was told "you have no rights" during arrest, and 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.
- LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him† 🔥🔥🔥Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.
- Your ChatGPT therapy session might not stay private in a lawsuit, says Sam Altman 🔥🔥ChatGPT users laying it all out on the couch could see their chatbot therapy sessions uncovered if OpenAI were hit with a lawsuit, says Sam Altman.
- Mark Carney’s AI agenda is a gift to Big Tech ⋆ The Breach† 🔥🔥The Liberal government is charging ahead with the technology despite mounting evidence of harm for workers, vulnerable groups, and public services ...
- What is Woke AI?† 🔥"Woke AI" is the subject of a new executive order, but what exactly does that mean?
- Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch 🔥In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.
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.
- Contingent Equal Protection: Reaching for Equality After Ricci and PICS 🔥🔥The Supreme Court's decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1 has been extensively analyzed as the latest step in the Cour ...
- Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning First Amendment law tends to focus on the exercise of formal government power. Nevertheless, for over six decades now, it has been black letter law that informa ...
- Forum Choices for Judicial Review of Federal Agency Rulemaking Some of the most important federal policies are implemented and amended via federal agency rulemaking, where agencies exercise delegated authority to regulate l ...
- Talkin’ ‘Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain "Does generative AI infringe copyright?" is an urgent question. It is also a difficult question, for two reasons. First, “generative AI” is not just o ...
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.
- Hidden in Plain Text: Emergence & Mitigation of Steganographic Collusion in LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The rapid proliferation of frontier model agents promises significant societal advances but also raises concerns about systemic risks arising from unsafe interactions. Collusion to the disadvantage of...
- Convergent transformations of visual representation in brains and models 🔥A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is what shapes visual perception: the external world's structure or the brain's internal architecture. Although some perceptual variability can be trac...
- 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...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models transmit behavioral traits via semantically unrelated data. In our main experiments, a "teacher" model with some trait T (su...
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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