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.
- Pirro’s office won’t pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A statement from Pirro on Tuesday said D.C.’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”
- In Pursuing Trump Rival, Weaponization Czar Sidesteps Justice Dept. Norms 🔥🔥
- Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ 🔥
- Trump Wants Universities to Show Him the Money, or No Deal 🔥
- Justice Department investigating D.C. police over alleged fake crime data 🔥The launch of the criminal investigation — run out of the federal prosecutor’s office in D.C. — escalates the tense relationship between the Trump administration and local D.C. officials.
- ‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows 🔥
- Bondi Aides Corrupted Antitrust Enforcement, Ousted DOJ Official Says 🔥Roger Alford, formerly second-in-command of the antitrust division, called on a court to scrutinize the merger case that led to his firing.
- UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback 🔥Exclusive: Labour ministers choosing to weaken green protections inherited from the bloc, analysis reveals ...
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'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...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 190. 8/19/25 … DOJ was supposed to turn over the Epstein Files to the House Oversight Committee today, but instead announced that they would be providing selected documents incrementally over time.
- Where the Rubber Bullets Hit the Road The Checkpoint State Hits the Streets—and the Constitution Frays ...
- August 19, 2025 Yesterday, the 51 Democratic Texas state representatives who left the state for Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts on August 3 to prevent Republican lawmakers from redistricting Texas to give five ...
- BREAKING: Texas Democrat Defies GOP, Stays Locked in Capitol Overnight After Refusing Police Escort Order Texas Rep. Nicole Collier is locked in the State Capitol for refusing to sign a GOP permission slip, she slept in the Capitol, Trump blamed Ukraine for the war, and DOJ will hand over Epstein files ...
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 ...
- WA lawyer referred to regulator after preparing documents with AI-generated citations for nonexistent cases 🔥🔥Judge warns of ‘inherent dangers’ of lawyers relying solely on AI amid growing number of fake citations or other errors due to the technology ...
- '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.
- Top Law Schools Boost AI Training as Legal Citation Errors Grow 🔥🔥Incidents of AI-generated errors in legal citations have increased the pressure on law schools to teach responsible use of the technology.
- The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement The lawsuit says ChatGPT “recites Times content verbatim.”
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 ...
- Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure 🔥🔥[Image of the Twitter bird logo photoshopped into a scene from Monty Python, available at: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2483004-2022-twitter-shutdown-rumors-
- 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 ...
- Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion 🔥The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to chal ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization 🔥🔥🔥🔥This paper is a collaborative piece between two worlds of expertise in the field of data visualization: accessibility and bias. In particular, the rise of generative models playing a role in accessibi...
- 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 ...
- Machine Learning for Detecting Collusion and Capacity Withholding in Wholesale Electricity Markets Collusion and capacity withholding in electricity wholesale markets are important mechanisms of market manipulation. This study applies a refined machine learning-based cartel detection algorithm to t...
- Noise-Coded Illumination for Forensic and Photometric Video Analysis The proliferation of advanced tools for manipulating video has led to an arms race, pitting those who wish to sow disinformation against those who want to detect and expose it. Unfortunately, time fav...
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)
- Insufficiently Positive About Slavery 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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