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.
- Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
- Opinion | How the Military Became Another Instrument of Trump’s Power 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump and Putin Could Decide Others’ Fates, Echoing Yalta Summit 🔥🔥
- Trump Deploys National Guard for D.C. Crime but Called Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Very Special’ 🔥🔥
- UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme 🔥Scientists received €735m in grants in 2024 after UK rejoined programme as associate member post-Brexit ...
- Opinion | Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis 🔥
- BBC apologises after Robert Jenrick accused of xenophobia 🔥A contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day slot made the remark about the shadow justice secretary.
- White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions 🔥
- L.A. volunteers who document ICE raids are being arrested. How to do it safely 🔥L.A. County residents have been documenting immigration enforcement since early June. A recent arrest of a volunteer highlights the risk of this work.
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.
- 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.
- Congress may have the spending power, but Trump can usurp it if they won't protect it. 🔥🔥And they haven't ...
- August 13, 2025 🔥🔥On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
- NEWS: National Guard Troops Begin Roaming Washington, D.C. as Mayor Blasts Trump's 'Authoritarian' Actions National Guard troops begin roaming D.C., D.C. Mayor blasts Trump's 'authoritarian' actions, Newsom pledges to draw new Congressional maps, Trump alters human rights report, and more ...
- Trial Over Trump’s Troops In LA To Conclude
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.
- Musk Loses Court Bid to Dismiss OpenAI’s Harassment Claim Elon Musk must face claims by OpenAI that his attacks on the startup in court and in the media amount to a “years-long harassment campaign,” a federal judge ruled.
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.
- Voting Rights and Private Rights of Action: An Empirical Study of Litigation Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 1982-2024 🔥🔥🔥 The Voting Rights Act is perhaps the most effective civil rights law ever enacted, bringing millions of Americans who have historically been discriminate ...
- 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 ...
- Indigenizing Legal Republicanism This Article proposes and evaluates a synthesis of neorepublican legal theory and Indigenous peoples law and philosophy. Neorepublican legal theory, a critical ...
- 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 ...
- Misunderstanding National Religious Broadcasters This piece examines the proposed order and joint motion for entry of consent judgment in National Religious Broadcasters v. Commissioner addressing ...
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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by communities. However,...
- 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...
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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