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.
- Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic 🔥
- Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common 🔥
- ‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities 🔥Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration ...
- 'South Park' Tells ICE to 'Eat a Bag of Dicks' After Co-Opting Cartoon to Recruit Agents 🔥ICE used a South Park clip to recruit agents, prompting the show to mock the Trump admin’s messaging by telling it to 'eat a bag of dicks.'
- Opinion | I gained 20 pounds of muscle. Here’s what I learned. 🔥Three years and 20 pounds of muscle later, I’ve learned that everything — and nothing — changes.
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.
- NEWS: Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Quietly Removed From Government Website 🔥🔥🔥This is a major story that more media sites need to cover.
- August 6, 2025 Members of the House of Representatives are back in their districts for August, and on Monday, Republican Mike Flood of Nebraska held a town hall in Lincoln.
- NEWS: Library of Congress Restores Full Constitution After Public Outrage Library of Congress restores Constitution after outrage, Ken Paxton launches investigation into Beto, Texas Democrats face bomb threat, JD Vance is hosting a cabal-like meeting to discuss Epstein ...
- NEWS: JD Vance to Hold Secret Meeting to Discuss Epstein Fall Out Vance to hold meeting to discuss Epstein issues, Abbott tries to expel the leader of the Texas House Democrats, RFK Jr. cancels MRNA vaccine contracts, and Rhode Island Democrats secure huge win ...
- Pessimism As a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy In this week's the Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander reflects on the dangers of demoralising elite pessimism.
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.
- Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops 🔥🔥🔥🔥Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
- Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes† 🔥🔥🔥I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.
- Leaked ChatGPT Conversations Show People Asking the Bot to Do Some Dirty Work 🔥Some questions should not be answered.
- States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear All 50 states have introduced AI-related legislation this year.
- OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million. OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.
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 ...
- AI-Enabled Decision-Support Systems in the Joint Targeting Cycle: Legal Challenges, Risks, and the Human(e) Dimension As artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies become increasingly integrated into military targeting operations, the legal, ethical, and operati ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...
- 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...
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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