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.
- The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
- 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.
- Ocasio-Cortez Must Pay Another $2,700 for Met Gala Dress 🔥
- Competing Conspiracy Theories Consume Trump’s Washington
- Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
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.
- Top Scottish Protest Signs of Trump 🔥🔥🔥As I carry on my tradition of featuring the best protest signs against Trump, this time we go international as the Scots turned out to protest his visit to their country as he plays golf on the US tax...
- July 26, 2025 Ten days ago, ten Republican senators wrote to Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, asking him to release the funds Congress appropriated in March to support education.
- EXCLUSIVE: Texas Republicans Jailed a Congressional Candidate, He Speaks Out. Texas Republicans jailed a Congressional candidate, and he speaks to me hours after being released, Trump flees to Scotland amid mounting political pressure, Bondi blindsided by Tulsi, and more ...
- Federal Judge Pulls Opinion With Fake Quotes And YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! - Above the Law Uh-oh.
- Retirees Face an $18,100 Benefit Cut in 7 Years | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 2025-07-24-The Social Security and Medicare trust funds are only a little more than seven years from insolvency, based on ...
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.
- Judicial Courage, Contrarianism, and Candor 🔥🔥Contemporary discussions of judicial courage are muddled. Despite a vast literature on virtue ethics, as well as a more specialized literature applying lessons ...
- 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 ...
- The New Establishment Clause Hallmarks Test: Sources and Distortions In the recent case of Kennedy v. Bremerton, the Supreme Court abandoned Lemon v. Kurtzman, the 50-year-old principal Establishment Clause test. Inst ...
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...
- Regulatory Sandboxes: One Decade On 🔥Regulatory sandboxes have spread like wildfire since the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority launched its sandbox for financial technology businesses (fintech) one ...
- AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery While AI systems demonstrate exponentially improving capabilities, the pace of AI research itself remains linearly bounded by human cognitive capacity, creating an increasingly severe development bott...
- 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...
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)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Neil Lewis, Jr. (@neillewisjr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal says Free Alaa now (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner.org) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Maria Popova (@popovaprof.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.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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