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.
- New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off the presidency, according to an analysis by the New Yorker.
- Violent clashes escalate at anti-government protests in Serbia 🔥🔥🔥🔥Police accused of brutality against demonstrators as unrest continues across cities for fourth night ...
- Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 🔥🔥
- Zelenskyy says territorial swaps not possible under Ukrainian constitution ahead of White House meeting – live 🔥Ahead of his meeting with Trump on Monday the Ukrainian president said the ‘territorial issue’ should only be discussed with Russia and the US ...
- Republican-led states to send hundreds more National Guard troops to D.C. 🔥National Guard troops in Washington may soon carry weapons, a reversal of their initial orders.
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.
- Our leading papers failed to stand up to Trump's criminal justice authoritarianism 🔥🔥🔥The Washington Post and The New York Times editorial boards failed to hold Trump accountable for his attack on D.C. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Common Sense about Negotiations 🔥For Americans about Ukraine ...
- The Week Ahead 🔥August 17, 2025 ...
- August 17, 2025 On the heels of President Donald J.
- Sunday Morning Wrap Up Let’s get right to 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.
- 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.
- Trump hiked tariffs on US imports. Now he’s looking at exports – sparking fears of ‘dangerous precedent’ 🔥🔥Experts warn of destabilized trading relations after White House strikes deal with Nvidia to take a 15% cut of certain AI chip sales to Chinese companies ...
- 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.
- 'Dark side of AI': How teen girl allegedly faked threats from 2 boys — and cops bought it 🔥A teen girl is accused of framing two boys by convincing police they were threatening her on Instagram — when it was really her writing the threats.
- Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify In a July arbitration hearing, Politico faced allegations that two generative AI tools violated its union contract.
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 ...
- 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 ...
- The Twice and Future President? The "Trump 2028" Paradox and Constitutional Loopholes The Twenty-Second Amendment limits Presidents to two terms, leading scholars to explore theoretical non-electoral pathways, such ...
- FREE SPEECH IN SOCIAL MEDIA: BALANCING DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND COMBATING FALSE SPEECH This article examines the complex interplay between free speech, democratic participation, and the spread of misinformation in the digital age. Anchored in h ...
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.
- 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...
- Inference of germinal center evolutionary dynamics via simulation-based deep learning 🔥B cells and the antibodies they produce are vital to health and survival, motivating research on the details of the mutational and evolutionary processes in the germinal centers (GC) from which mature...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- No, Just Bella 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, still not condemning Hamas (@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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