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.
- Texas governor threatens Democrats who left state to prevent congressional map vote – US politics live 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Greg Abbott says he will try to remove Democrats unless they return to allow vote to take place on redrawing the US House map to favour Republicans ...
- Opinion | This Attack on a Federal Judge Is Preposterous 🔥🔥🔥
- The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come 🔥🔥Mounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country.
- Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders 🔥
- Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils. (Gift Article) 🔥Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy.
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.
- George Santos: "Prison Sucks" 🔥🔥🔥Disgraced former Rep pens first letter from prison ...
- BREAKING: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Threatens to Expel Democrats From Their Jobs 🔥Greg Abbott threatens to expel Texas Democrats from their jobs, JB Pritzker supports Texas Democrats in fleeing, Trump blasts "sham" job numbers, United Airlines flight makes emergency landing ...
- Marc Elias & I discuss the fate of the Voting Rights Act 🔥A recording of Joyce Vance's Substack Live ...
- What the Columbia Settlement Really Means 🔥
- The Intensified Assault on Factual Reality 🔥Firing the messenger who delivered bad economic news is the latest sign that Trump is failing. He'll manipulate more data as the economy worsens.
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?
- 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...
- Springfield attorney fined for using AI, citing ‘nonexistent’ cases SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — A Springfield attorney is being fined and could face additional penalties after admitting to using artificial intelligence in briefs where he cited eight “non…
- 2025 Generative AI in Professional Services report Explore the future of generative AI (GenAI) for legal, tax and accounting, audit, risk and fraud, and government professionals.
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.
- Defining the Field of Judicial Administration 🔥🔥This Keynote address, as part of a symposium on "Theorizing the Judicial Process," aims to make a case for the field of judicial administration and to ...
- The Law of Digital Resurrection The digital right to be dead has yet to be recognized as an important legal right. Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and nanotechnology have progresse ...
- Texas v. BlackRock Puts the Common Ownership Theory on Trial, with Implications across the Financial Sector and Collaborative Sustainability Efforts This paper examines the implications of Texas v. BlackRock, the first antitrust lawsuit challenging climate collaborations among financial ...
- Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to chal ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- How Scientists Use Large Language Models to Program 🔥🔥Scientists across disciplines write code for critical activities like data collection and generation, statistical modeling, and visualization. As large language models that can generate code have beco...
- Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research 🔥🔥Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...
- Cobblestone: Iterative Automation for Formal Verification Formal verification using proof assistants, such as Coq, is an effective way of improving software quality, but requires significant effort and expertise. Machine learning can automatically synthesize...
- Stereo-GS: Multi-View Stereo Vision Model for Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction showcases advanced Image-to-3D content creation but requires substantial computational resources and large datasets, posing challenges to training…
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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