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.
- Eric Holder on Why He Reversed Course on Gerrymandering† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal 🔥🔥Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.
- The Politics of Fear 🔥As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail.
- Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that wind turbines kill whales 🔥The former president blamed wind farms for a spike in whale deaths - but his claims don't stand up.
- World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 🔥World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
- Trump Fires Official Over Jobs Report, Echoing an Authoritarian Playbook (Gift Article) 🔥In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn’t like and promote his own version of reality.
- Opinion | Why Trump’s Meddling in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Matters 🔥Most children learn at some point that flipping the board doesn’t make them the winner.
- The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit 🔥Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women ...
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.
- The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine 🔥🔥🔥🔥How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
- The Week Ahead 🔥Sunday August 3, 2025 ...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 184 … Former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev: “Trump should not think that the video archive of his past immoralities is only in the hands of Mossad.”
- August 3, 2025 Today, Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny Republican lawmakers the quorum—the number of legislators required to pass legislation—they need in order to ...
- "The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election" #ELB Brennan Center expert brief: In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and...
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.
- The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
- 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 ...
- 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.
- The AI Boom’s Hidden Risk to the Economy The build-out of artificial-intelligence infrastructure is costing a fortune, straining companies and capital markets.
- ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION / KEEP ROCHDALE AFFORDABLE / ELIJAH MANLEY FL20! Members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation join me to discuss “YouTube Takedowns” and what we can do about it before, and when it happens.Then I ask quest...
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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- The World Court's Climate Opinion May Increase Regulatory Risk for Singapore Businesses On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Advisory Opinion (“AO”), deciding, inter alia, that States are lega ...
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...
- Few-Shot Learning in Video and 3D Object Detection: A Survey Few-shot learning (FSL) enables object detection models to recognize novel classes given only a few annotated examples, thereby reducing expensive manual data labeling. This survey examines recent…
- 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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