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.
- Justice Dept. Abruptly Escalates Pressure Campaign on a Trump Adversary 🔥🔥🔥🔥Letitia James, New York’s attorney general and a longtime nemesis of the president, is being investigated in two separate inquiries, in a remarkable use of executive power to pursue a foe.
- What can the FBI do in Texas redistricting fight? Not much, experts say. 🔥🔥🔥🔥Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has said the FBI granted his request to help bring Democratic lawmakers back to the state. But the bureau appears to have taken few concrete steps.
- Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say 🔥🔥🔥
- Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta 🔥
- Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia 🔥Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out.
- EPA plans to end a program that makes solar power available to low-income Americans 🔥The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.
- 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.
- Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat. 🔥
- Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo 🔥Protesters simultaneously unveiled signs with the same message ...
- Zelensky Rejects Trump’s Suggestion That Ukraine Swap Territory With Russia 🔥
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 FBI As We Knew It is Gone 🔥🔥🔥🔥It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.
- August 9, 2025 Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video in which Christian nationalist pastors express their opposition to the idea of women voting.
- NEWS: President Zelensky Rebukes Donald Trump's Suggestion that Ukraine Will Give Up Territory Zelensky rejects Trump's assertion that Ukraine may give up territory, tariffs rise to the highest rate since the great depression, covid vaccines for children may lose FDA authorization, and more ...
- Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann) Russia’s position on wanting all of eastern Ukraine precisely and eerily mirrors exactly what it proposed in 2016 to Paul Manafort through Konstantin Kilimnick. No wonder Zelenskyy rejects it- https...
- Federal Science Advisory Committees Are Being Defunded and Dismantled. Here’s a Toolkit to Help Independent Scientists Step Up Despite the current Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle federal science advisory committees, scientists and their organizations can still collaborate to form independent committees.
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.
- AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
- Memories of deadly winter blackouts haunt the Texas data center boom† 🔥🔥A newly passed law in Texas requires emergency shutoff switches for data centers, including the massive $500 billion AI supercomputer backed by President Trump.
- He said, she said, it said: I used ChatGPT as a couple's counselor. How did we fare? 🔥Looking for backup, I turned to an AI chatbot for relationship wisdom. It took my side. It was only when I challenged the bot's biases — and my own — that we had a communication breakthrough.
- Some U.S. Republicans want Canada to axe its Online Streaming Act | CBC News A group of Republican members of U.S. Congress say Canada's policy requiring foreign streaming services to contribute five per cent of their revenues to funding Canadian content is discriminatory and ...
- HMRC must disclose whether it used AI in tax credit decisions, court rules† Revenue had rejected transparency request from tax adviser who believed it used technology to reject R&D applications ...
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.
- The Alien Enemies Act of 1798† 🔥For the first time since World War II-and the first time ever outside a formally declared war-an American president has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to detain ...
- Your First Case Brief: Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy as a Guide† I've edited this classic Internet Law case for an orientation course at the University of Akron School of Law. It’s designed to help incoming students learn how ...
- If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide† Large language models struggle to answer legal questions that require applying detailed, jurisdiction-specific legal rules. Lawyers also find these types of que ...
- The "Segregate-and-Suppress" Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online In an effort to protect children online, regulators around the country and the world are enacting laws that compel Internet publishers to age-authenticat ...
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.
- Probing Syntax in Large Language Models: Successes and Remaining Challenges 🔥🔥🔥The syntactic structures of sentences can be readily read-out from the activations of large language models (LLMs). However, the ``structural probes'' that have been developed to reveal this phenomeno...
- Can Performant LLMs Be Ethical? Quantifying the Impact of Web Crawling Opt-Outs† 🔥🔥The increasing adoption of web crawling opt-outs by copyright holders of online content raises critical questions about the impact of data compliance on large language model (LLM) performance. However...
- If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide† 🔥Large language models struggle to answer legal questions that require applying detailed, jurisdiction-specific legal rules. Lawyers also find these types of que ...
- Whose Truth? Pluralistic Geo-Alignment for (Agentic) AI AI (super) alignment describes the challenge of ensuring (future) AI systems behave in accordance with societal norms and goals. While a quickly evolving literature is addressing biases and inequaliti...
- Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model? Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently demonstrated notable success in enhancing the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs), particularly on mathematics and ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Sheryl Weikal says Free Palestine and Protect Trans Kids (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Miriam Posner (@miriamposner.com) (promoted)
- Quinn Yeargain (@yeargain.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Heidi Kitrosser (@heidikitrosser.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Q. Barrett (@johnqbarrett.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess Miers 🦝 (@jmiers230.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidallengreen.bsky.social (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (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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