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.
- Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
- SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes. 🔥🔥🔥
- Putin to offer financial incentives to Trump at Ukraine summit 🔥🔥Russian leader plans to discuss economic ties, in appeal to Trump’s business instincts, alongside future of Ukraine ...
- Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer 🔥Police allege that the man approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities.
- As Trump pushes a federal takeover of D.C. police, these are your rights 🔥With federal and local officers on D.C.’s streets, here’s what to know about what law enforcement agencies can legally order you to do — and what they can’t.
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.
- Trump nominates Jan 6 "bystander" to produce better job numbers 🔥🔥One more benchmark for Trump's assault on state capacity ...
- August 15, 2025 🔥A friend tells me I’ve been burning the candle at both ends for far too long, and I’m not going to dispute it.
- NEW: D.C. officials sue Trump admin over Bondi order claiming D.C. police powers† 🔥A.G. Schwalb told D.C.'s police chief that Bondi's order — purporting to make the DEA administrator D.C.'s "Emergency Police Commissioner" — is "unlawful."
- Putin Makes No Concessions But Trump Normalizes Relations People Seem To Be Missing The Big Story ...
- NEWS: Pam Bondi Strips Sanctuary Status from D.C., JD Vance Rejected at Restaurant, and anti-Russia Protests Breakout in Alaska Pam Bondi strips sanctuary protections from D.C., JD Vance was rejected at a restaurant while on vacation, anti-Russia protests breakout in Alaska ahead of today's summit, and much more!
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.
- A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.
- Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations 🔥The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.
- CA Pushes AI Regulation as Experts Reveal Looming Dangers Bay Area tech companies are building powerful artificial intelligence systems that experts say could pose “catastrophic risks” to society.
- Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children† An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
- Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for using AI-generated fake quotes and non-existent case judgments in a murder case ...
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 ...
- Political and Legal Assessment of German Arms Deliveries to Israel Since 7 October 2023 This report analyses four key aspects regarding the development of German arms exports to Israel since October 7, 2023: the development of their licencing and d ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Academic Freedom's Inflection Point Academic freedom faces an existential crisis. The Trump administration, building on a movement that began in the states, is seeking ideological conquest ...
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...
- 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,...
- Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic†
- The Illusory Normativity of Rights-Based AI Regulation† Whether and how to regulate AI is now a central question of governance. Across academic, policy, and international legal circles, the European Union is widel ...
- A Moral Agency Framework for Legitimate Integration of AI in Bureaucracies Public-sector bureaucracies seek to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), but face important concerns about accountability and transparency when using AI systems. In particular, perceptio...
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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