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.
- F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research 🔥🔥
- Gavin Newsom is going low. Is this the future of Democratic campaigns? - The Boston Globe 🔥The California governor is considering going beyond warring with words and is flirting with the same sneaky tactics as his political opponents.
- Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations 🔥The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.
- Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders (Gift Article) 🔥Legal experts say the actions causing concern from the bench could have a more systemic effect, eroding the healthy functioning of the courts.
- We once loved pigeons. We might not remember that, but they do | Joseph Earp 🔥The gentle, beautiful curiosity of humans led to the discovery that these birds are able to differentiate between paintings by Monet and Picasso ...
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.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 186. 8/5/25 🔥🔥… Trump said before Dep AG Todd Blanche releases the transcript of his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, he “wants to make sure that people who should not be involved, or who aren’t involved, or who a...
- August 5, 2025 (Tuesday) 🔥🔥Sixty years ago tomorrow, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B.
- INTERVIEW: Pete Buttigieg Speaks About the Future of our Nation 🔥A recording from Aaron Parnas's live video ...
- NEWS: Trump and Murdoch Cut a Deal to Avoid Depositions and California Democrats Fight Back Against Texas Trump and Murdoch cut a deal to avoid depositions in the Epstein case, California Democrats move toward redistricting their state, Trump to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, Bolsonaro arrested ...
- BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Moves Closer to Seeking Expulsion of Texas Democrats Texas Attorney General moves to expel Texas Democrats, Trump threatens a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., National Park Service restores Confederate monument, and much more.
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.
- Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.
- OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million. OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.
- Tesla, Elon Musk sued by shareholders over Robotaxi claims Elon Musk and Tesla were sued by shareholders who accused them of securities fraud for concealing the significant risk that the company's self-driving vehicles, including the Robotaxi, were dangerous.
- AG Mayes and the Better Business Bureau Fight AI Scams YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office ...
- 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…
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 ...
- Judicial Selection: Ideology Versus Character Part I of Judicial Selection: Ideology versus Character sets the stage for an argument that character and not political ideology should be the primary factor i ...
- Legal Personhood for Artificial Intelligences Could an artificial intelligence become a legal person? As of today, this question is only theoretical. No existing computer program currently possesses the sor ...
- 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 ...
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Better Recommendations: Validating AI-generated Subject Terms Through LOC Linked Data Service ArXiv link for Better Recommendations: Validating AI-generated Subject Terms Through LOC Linked Data Service ...
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 Palestine and Protect Trans Kids (@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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