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.
- Russian Attacks Kill 14 in Ukraine, Hours Before Zelensky Visits White House 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 🔥"If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."
- Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life 🔥
- Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit 🔥
- Trump vows to target mail-in ballots ahead of 2026 midterm election 🔥U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on Monday to issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a move likely to spark legal challenges by the states.
- Opinion | America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs 🔥
- White House sending social media teams with FBI on some arrests in D.C., sources say 🔥The White House has dispatched social media teams alongside FBI agents executing arrest warrants in the nation's capital to generate videos that promote U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on crime in the District of Columbia, according to two people briefed on the matter.
- Marco Rubio Once Filed a Brief Embracing Birthright Citizenship 🔥
- Opinion | All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home 🔥
- Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’ 🔥High critical report finds that instead of promised annual saving of £100m, fees have rocketed amid financial crisis ...
- The toxic brew that awaits professors this fall - The Boston Globe 🔥I’m not ready to return to the classroom and face the bleak condition of higher education.
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.
- Live with Heather Cox Richardson 🔥🔥A recording from Heather Cox Richardson's live video ...
- Trump's "Truth" About Voting 🔥🔥It’s one of those days with so much going on that it was clear to me early in the day I needed to do a standalone post on the topic of Trump’s most recent attack on our elections to give that topic th...
- Common Sense about Negotiations† 🔥For Americans about Ukraine ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 189. 8/18/25 🔥… Trump was caught on a hot mic telling European leaders today after his meeting with Zelensky that Putin might agree to a peace deal with Ukraine just to help him out and do him a personal favor so h...
- August 18, 2025 This morning, J.D.
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.
- 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 ...
- '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.
- Denmark Is Fighting AI by Giving Citizens Copyright to Their Own Faces Denmark has put forth a proposal that would give every one of its citizens the ability to protect themselves from AI...
- Defiant Copyright Chief Urges Federal Court to Connect the Dots Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, suing the federal government over White House efforts to fire her, asked the Court to grant an injunction and drew connections between her dismissal and the Tr...
- He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.
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.
- Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School (Excerpt from 'The Law of Law School') 🔥🔥Law school creates a challenging educational environment for all students. A “Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School” offers words of comfort and encour ...
- The Weather and the Climate: On Teaching Constitutional Law 🔥This essay, written for a volume on the teaching of constitutional law, describes three related challenges in teaching that subject at the present time. The fir ...
- 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 ...
- DEI: Son of Deference Employers gained power over civil rights matters in a particular historical context. In the 1970s, courts solved legal debates about affirmative action a ...
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Convolutional Autoencoders for Data Compression and Anomaly Detection in Small Satellite Technologies ArXiv link for Convolutional Autoencoders for Data Compression and Anomaly Detection in Small Satellite Technologies ...
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 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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