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.
- ‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Nigel Farage investigated by standards watchdog 🔥🔥It relates to a possible breach of rules requiring MPs to register financial interests within 28 days.
- Eric Holder on Why He Reversed Course on Gerrymandering 🔥
- Downtown Detroit Is Back (Gift Article) A decade ago, the residential boom downtown would have been hard to imagine.
- Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.
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.
- How Many Golden Calves Will We the People Tolerate? 🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- NEWS: Leaked Memo Reveals Trump Plan to Ramp Up Military Presence on U.S. Soil 🔥🔥Outside of the news tonight, my work was featured in the Atlantic. This is a major personal milestone, so thank you. Truly, from the bottom of my heart.
- NEWS: Donald Trump Tells Americans to Stop Trusting Numbers from his Government 🔥🔥Trump tells Americans to stop trusting numbers from his government, the media ignores Trump's five alarm fire, Newsmax suggests Ghislaine Maxwell may be innocent, and much more ...
- August 2, 2025 🔥Republicans in the Texas legislature are working to redistrict the state before the 2026 midterm elections.
- Weekend Update #144: The Triumph Of Ukrainian Civil Society (And The Degradation Of Ours) Ukrainian Ranged Attacks On Russian Logistics--Can They Keep It Up?; The Week Trump Drops The Hammer?
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.
- Jury Says Tesla Must Pay $243 Million Over Fatal Autopilot Crash 🔥🔥🔥Automaker is found partly liable over its driver-assistance software in a deadly 2019 collision ...
- 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.
- State Constitutions and the Right to Gender Autonomy† 🔥🔥Trans scholars have long theorized a fundamental right to gender autonomy under the constitution: the right to self-determine one's gender, and to express that ...
- Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School (Excerpt from 'The Law of Law School') Law school creates a challenging educational environment for all students. A “Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School” offers words of comfort and encour ...
- The Semi-Autonomous Administrative State† Conflicting views about presidential control of the administrative state have too long been characterized in terms of a debate over agency independence. But the ...
- FROM ACCESS TO USE: RECOVERING THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF FLORIDA'S AMENDMENT 7 When voters approved Amendment 7 in 2004, they amended the Florida constitution to create “a right to access” reports created by healthcare providers a ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models interact with users through a simulated 'Assistant' persona. While the Assistant is typically trained to be helpful, harmless, and honest, it sometimes deviates from these ideals...
- AI and Leveraging Strategies: Implications for Antitrust In product markets that rely heavily on artificial intelligence (AI), firms both use data and generate data. For a multiproduct firm, the data generated by one ...
- From Articles to Code: On-Demand Generation of Core Algorithms from Scientific Publications Maintaining software packages imposes significant costs due to dependency management, bug fixes, and versioning. We show that rich method descriptions in scientific publications can serve as standalon...
- 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, ...
- ScVLM: Enhancing Vision-Language Model for Safety-Critical Event Understanding† Accurately identifying, understanding and describing traffic safety-critical events (SCEs), including crashes, tire strikes, and near-crashes, is crucial for advanced driver assistance systems,…
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)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess Miers 🦝 (@jmiers230.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Q. Barrett (@johnqbarrett.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Neil Lewis, Jr. (@neillewisjr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Free Alaa now (@leftistlawyer.com) (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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