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.
- Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.
- ‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, New Documents Show 🔥
- Opinion | Brennan and Clapper: The Trump Administration Is Rewriting History of Russia and 2016 (Gift Article) 🔥We want to set the record straight and also sound a warning.
- Senators Could Vote Imminently to Remove Their Homes, Travel Info From Internet 🔥The Senate could vote imminently to allow members of Congress and their staff to demand websites take down info about their houses and travel details.
- Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum 🔥A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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.
- Goodbye, Washington Post 🔥🔥"A swirl of terrified excitement" for 18 years, 5 months and 16 days ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 182. 7/31/25 🔥… Trump biographer Michael Wolff to Meidas: “Epstein’s explanation for why this friendship ended is as follows.
- Trump's Complaint About One Judge Is An Attack On The Entire Judiciary 🔥The Constitution didn't give the president the power to attack other branches of government. But that's what Trump is doing.
- NEWS: Gavin Newsom Will Fight Back and Redraw California Maps to Counter Texas Republicans 🔥Gavin Newsom has told aides that he will redistrict California if Texas Republicans do the same, Trump imposes 50% tariffs on coffee from Brazil as retaliation, ICE places double-amputee in solitary ...
- Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance | Substack 🔥Worried about the state of the republic? Get the legal knowledge & analysis you need to be an advocate for democracy, along with a dose of savvy optimism. Click to read Civil Discourse with Joyce Vanc...
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.
- Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World 🔥🔥🔥Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.
- Amazon Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows 🔥🔥Amazon has invested in Fable, a start-up whose 'Netflix of AI' Showunner gen-AI tool lets users create scenes or entire episodes of a TV show.
- Trump AI Action Plan Raises Legal Questions, Potentially Violates Constitution | TechPolicy.Press 🔥🔥ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke says Congress should conduct oversight to ensure agencies stay within legal and constitutional boundaries.
- The Trump AI Action Plan is Deregulation Framed as Innovation | TechPolicy.Press 🔥The administration's plan favors corporate interests over the public interest, write Public Citizen's J.B. Branch, Ilana Beller, and Tyson Slocum.
- Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener! 🔥With our new Transcripts feature for Oral Arguments, you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case.
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 ...
- Judge Platt Potter and the Politics of Judicial Contempt of the Legislature Suppose that a court arrests a legislator for contempt of court, a possible violation of legislative privilege. And suppose further that in response to ...
- Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets This paper argues that blockchain technology solves a problem the traditional securities markets still haven't fixed: the lack of a more direct, efficient, and ...
- The Pocahontas Exception: The Exemption of American Indian Ancestry from Racial Purity Law This article addresses the treatment of Native American ancestry as a curious exception to the threat of racial impurity. Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 192 ...
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...
- Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews 🔥🔥🔥
- 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 ...
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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