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.
- Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest 🔥🔥Documents reviewed by The Post detail a new National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.
- Judge Will Not Unseal Grand Jury Papers of Maxwell, Epstein’s Companion President Trump has tried to subdue conspiracy theories by pushing to disclose the transcripts from the cases of Jeffrey Epstein, who abused teenage girls, and Ghislaine Maxwell, who assisted him.
- The Situation: My Dangerous City Making Washington Safe Again ...
- Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe Unprecedented temperatures causing difficulties in south-west France, Croatia, Italy and Spain with wildfire destruction across Europe up 87%
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.
- Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Potential Demolition of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by Setting Argument October 15 in Louisiana Case, Possibly in Time to Affect 2026 Midterm Elections #ELB 🔥🔥We know the Supreme Court dallied a long time in setting the Louisiana case for reargument, only recently adding a doozy of a question in this racial gerrymandering case that could tee up a potential ...
- When The President Becomes The Police† 🔥🔥The Posse Comitatus Act reserves the police power to the states, prohibiting the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement absent truly compelling circumstances.
- Living in 1984 🔥The headline tonight reads, “White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision.” It’s in The Wall Street Journal, not exactly a bastion of liberal views.
- August 12, 2025 🔥Liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov nailed it this morning when she wrote: “He’s doing everything EXCEPT releasing the Epstein files.” Her comment was in reference to President Donald Trump’s social me...
- BREAKING: Trump Considers Creating Military Force to Respond to Civil Unrest Trump considers creating a military force to respond to civil unrest, core inflation rose about 3% for the first time since February, D.C. remains quiet despite Trump's federal takeover of the city ...
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.
- Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI† 🔥🔥🔥The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.
- Meta makes conservative activist an AI bias advisor following lawsuit† 🔥The move aligns with Trump’s broader “anti-woke” AI order.
- Labor unions mobilize to challenge advance of algorithms in workplaces Labor groups are trying to slow the advance of disruptive AI technology into workplaces, with the AFL-CIO and others trying to help state legislators pass AI laws.
- Meta, Robby Starbuck Settle AI Defamation Lawsuit† The conservative activist will advise the company on removing political bias from its AI tools.
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.
- History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique† 🔥🔥🔥There are indications that the "history and tradition" approach the Supreme Court applied to gun rights and abortion restrictions may be comi ...
- The Chadha Presidency† Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the answer to th ...
- 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 ...
- Synthetic Content: Default to Distrust AI generated or altered content -- synthetic content -- can cause economic, dignitary, and epistemic harms. To combat epistemic harms in particular, many jurisd ...
- Bankrupting Labor Power Corporations use bankruptcy to undermine worker collective power. For example, corporations can run to bankruptcy court to shed collective bargaining agr ...
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 analysis of AI Decision under Risk: Prospect theory emerges in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Judgment of risk is key to decision-making under uncertainty. As Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky famously discovered, humans do so in a distinctive way that departs from mathematical rationalism. Spe...
- Use as Directed? A Comparison of Software Tools Intended to Check Rigor and Transparency of Published Work† 🔥The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not ...
- 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 ...
- Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models transmit behavioral traits via semantically unrelated data. In our main experiments, a "teacher" model with some trait T (su...
- Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology Large Language Models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT, are increasingly used in research, ranging from simple writing assistance to complex data annotation tasks. Recently, some research has suggested that LLM...
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, due process enjoyer (@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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