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.
- Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
- MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
- Exclusive | National Guard Soldiers Prepare to Carry Weapons in Washington, D.C. 🔥🔥The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.
- Live Updates: Trump Backs Putin’s Route for Talks, Dashing Ukraine’s Hopes for Swift Cease-Fire 🔥
- Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar 🔥
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.
- Moving The Window 🔥🔥Tonight’s piece runs longer than I like to, especially on a Saturday night, but the issues are serious, and incumbent upon us all to stay caught up.
- Summer of Our Discontent 🔥“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
- Reporting LIVE From Massive Anti-Trump Protests in Washington, D.C. 🔥More than one thousand people shutdown downtown D.C., and all the news you missed ...
- August 16, 2025 🔥Yesterday, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for w...
- BREAKING: Trump Backs Putin's Path Toward Peace in Major Shift 🔥Good morning, and happy Saturday.
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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority: Law, Politics, and the Judiciary Act of 1925 This paper is written for a forthcoming symposium on the Judiciary Act of 1925 that will appear in the Notre Dame Law Review. Before the Judiciary Act of ...
- Reclaiming CRT: How Regressive Laws Can Advance Progressive Ends Since the fall of 2020, rightwing forces have targeted Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) through a sustained disinformation campaign. This offensive has deployed ant ...
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...
- Game Reasoning Arena: A Framework and Benchmark for Assessing Reasoning Capabilites of Large Language Models via Game Play 🔥🔥The Game Reasoning Arena library provides a framework for evaluating the decision making abilities of large language models (LLMs) through strategic board games implemented in Google OpenSpiel library...
- 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...
- 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,...
- A Comparative Analysis of Ai-Generated Physics: Deepseek-V3 vs. GPT in Calculating the Einstein Tensor for the Alcubierre Warp Drive Metric This article presents a comparative analysis of two state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs),ChatGPT and DeepSeek-R1, in addressing a challenging research ...
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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- I Did It I Threw The Sandwich Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Hypervisible (@hypervisible.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Jaakko Husa (@husajaakko.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal, wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Miriam Posner (@miriamposner.com) (relegated)
- Quinn Yeargain (@yeargain.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Heidi Kitrosser (@heidikitrosser.bsky.social) (relegated)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.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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