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.
- 60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. 🔥🔥🔥🔥Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
- I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George Monbiot 🔥🔥🔥🔥Around the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George ...
- Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan. 🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | Mamdani Has Done Something Special. Progressives Need Black Voters to Make It Last. 🔥🔥
- US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump 🔥International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya ...
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.
- NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels Speaks Out. Share Her Story. 🔥🔥🔥Please watch this powerful interview. I also highlight all the news you missed overnight in this newsletter.
- Seeking transparency on the Epstein files, Senate Democrats invoke the ‘rule of five’ 🔥Chuck Schumer came up with a new way to force the Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, but will the Justice Department comply?
- July 30, 2025 On July 2, 2024, just about a year ago, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts told the listeners of Steve Bannon’s War Room webcast: “[W]e are going to win.
- NEWS: United States Placed on Global Rights Watch List for Attacks on Civic Freedoms United States placed on global rights watch list for attacks on civic freedoms, High Noon accidentally labeled drinks as Celcius, Texas Republicans move forward with gerrymandering, and more.
- EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris is NOT Running for California Governor I have breaking exclusive news right now: Vice President Kamala Harris has made her decision about her political pursuits.
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.
- The Government Speech Doctrine Goes to School 🔥Since 2020, hundreds of state and local measures have been adopted to restrict classroom teaching on race and gender in public schools (referred to in ...
- 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.
- 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...
- An American's Guide to the EU AI Act 🔥The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024. The AI Act is long. It is complicated. It relies on a regulatory framework and institutions unfamiliar to ma ...
- 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 ...
- Large Language Models as Markov Chains Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably efficient across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and well beyond them. However, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the LLMs' generali...
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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