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.
- Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime 🔥🔥🔥🔥The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.
- Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London 🔥Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police ...
- Mamdani Tries to Build Bridges to Black Voters Who Snubbed Him in June 🔥
- ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation 🔥Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.
- Traders Are Fleeing Stocks Feared to Be Under Threat From AI 🔥Artificial intelligence’s imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable. Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion. Startups from OpenAI to Anthropic have raised...
- What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door 🔥
- Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. 🔥
- Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik 🔥He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik ...
- New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 🔥An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.
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 Week Ahead 🔥🔥🔥August 10, 2025 ...
- Urgent Sunday Night Message 🔥Donald Trump is on the verge of a massive federal takeover of Washington, D.C. I'm ready to cover it live and on the ground.
- Silent Coup: How Trump’s Allies Are Gaming Algorithms To Seize Your Feed 🔥New research unravels the secret tactics behind Stop the Steal and other right-wing disinformation campaigns.
- August 10, 2025 🔥On Friday, Democracy Forward Foundation sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make it respond to its request for the release of the Epstein files, as we...
- Judge Karen Henderson is standing up for our divided system of government She might be the only appellate Republican appointee in D.C. willing to do so regularly these days, but the D.C. Circuit judge has kept it up — for whatever branch needs it.
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.
- 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 ...
- Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
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 Disability Frame 🔥This essay is the Foreword to the 2022 University of Pennsylvania Law Review symposium on “The Disability Frame.” “The disability frame” refers to the character ...
- 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.
- R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data 🔥🔥Self-evolving Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable path toward super-intelligence by autonomously generating, refining, and learning from their own experiences. However, existing methods for ...
- arXiv.org e-Print archive† 🔥
- 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...
- Echo Chamber: RL Post-training Amplifies Behaviors Learned in Pretraining ArXiv link for Echo Chamber: RL Post-training Amplifies Behaviors Learned in Pretraining ...
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)
- dag (@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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