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.
- Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.
- E.P.A. Moves to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Senate, Rejecting Whistle-Blower Alarms, Confirms Bove to Appeals Court 🔥🔥🔥
- Hillsborough bereaved urge Starmer not to appoint ex-Sun editor to senior role 🔥Labour figures also have concerns about appointing David Dinsmore as permanent secretary for communications ...
- Whistleblower evidence suggests Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove misled Senate 🔥A third whistleblower has new information about a Justice Department official the president has nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
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.
- A Lesson From History: Judge Frank Johnson on the Right to Protest 🔥🔥🔥The Voting Rights Act Turns 60 ...
- The War on Suffering 🔥The war on suffering has not only robbed us of resilience. It has sold us a mirage that is making us miserable.
- July 29, 2025 🔥Trying to take some time off this summer, and after a bunch of work calls this morning, decided that today was too good a day to stay on the land.
- 170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg 🔥DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 181. 7/29/25 … On AF1 today coming back from Scotland, Trump was asked to provide additional details on his latest claim that his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ended because he stole some of his employees: “Peop...
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.
- Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them 🔥New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.
- 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.
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.
- Discontinuous ridiculous stools – a preprint full of tortured phrases and stolen data 🔥🔥“Patients with provocative entrail illness unclassified gave to crisis division a 3-day history of sickness, retching, migraine and irregular stomach torment alongside discontinuous ridiculou…
- Deputization and Privileged White Violence A number of high-profile and racially charged killings, such as Trayvon Martin's, Kenneth Herring's, Ahmaud Arbery's and Jordan Neely's, have been at the hands ...
- The Supreme Court in Bondage: Constitutional Stare Decisis, Legal Formalism, and the Future of Unenumerated Rights This essay advances a formalist conception of constitutional stare decisis. I shall argue that instrumentalist accounts of precedent are inherently unsatisfyin ...
- 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.
- Decolonizing Objective Theory: Race and Coloniality in US Contract Law, in Decolonisation, Anti-Racism and Legal Pedagogy, https://www.taylorfranc... Contract law emerged as a distinct legal field in the US toward the end of the nineteenth century during a period marked by US settler colonization of ind ...
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† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Cats Confuse Reasoning LLM: Query Agnostic Adversarial Triggers for Reasoning Models 🔥🔥We investigate the robustness of reasoning models trained for step-by-step problem solving by introducing query-agnostic adversarial triggers - short, irrelevant text that, when appended to math probl...
- Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI 🔥Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work, ...
- 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 ...
- CRUISE: Cooperative Reconstruction and Editing in V2X Scenarios using Gaussian Splatting Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication plays a crucial role in autonomous driving, enabling cooperation between vehicles and infrastructure. While simulation has significantly contributed to…
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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