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.
- Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute 🔥🔥
- In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide 🔥
- Opinion | The Supreme Court Owes the Country Explanations for Its Big Decisions 🔥
- The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food 🔥Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
- Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute 🔥
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.
- “Strange”? Try Indefensible. 🔥🔥🔥Todd Blanche’s visit to Ghislaine Maxwell wasn’t just a breach of protocol. It was a betrayal of public trust and his oath of office.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 180. 7/28/25 … Trump announced a “trade deal” with the EU, and the pattern continues with lots of goals, targets, and promises with few specifics - except that American consumers will ultimately pay more for impor...
- The Week Ahead July 27, 2025 ...
- Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.
- July 28, 2025 Today’s theme seems to be Republican leadership digging into positions that are directly contradicted by facts.
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.
- If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sam Altman has admitted that ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court if they are subpoenaed.
- Mark Carney is going “elbows down” against Big Tech 🔥🔥🔥Canada’s AI agenda ignores potential harms in the hope of short-term economic gain ...
- Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says 🔥🔥Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.
- DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
- BYOPLANET INTERNATIONAL LLC v. PETER JOHANSSON CHARLES GILSTRAP (2025) | FindLaw Case opinion for United States District Court, S.D. Florida. BYOPLANET INTERNATIONAL LLC v. PETER JOHANSSON CHARLES GILSTRAP. Read the Court's full decision on FindLaw.
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.
- Of State Remedies and Federal Rights† The Supreme Court has repudiated Bivens on the grounds that it arrogated legislative power to the federal judiciary. As the Court steps back, Congress is free t ...
- 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 ...
- Critical Curriculum Design: Teaching Law in an Age of Rising Authoritarianism† Legal education in the United States stands at a critical juncture. As democracy faces mounting threats both at home and abroad, law schools must grapple with t ...
- Agentic Workflows in the Practice of Law—AI Agents as Ethics Counsel† Generative AI is reshaping legal practice as law firms invest in AI technology and prepare for a future where AI agents operate alongside human lawyers. W ...
- 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.
- Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- 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...
- Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety† 🔥AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave. Like all other known AI oversight methods,...
- What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models 🔥Foundation models are premised on the idea that sequence prediction can uncover deeper domain understanding, much like how Kepler's predictions of planetary motion later led to the discovery of Newton...
- An Investigation of Prompt Variations for Zero-shot LLM-based Rankers ArXiv link for An Investigation of Prompt Variations for Zero-shot LLM-based Rankers ...
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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