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.
- Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The ruling, which gives the state 60 days to act, comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to convert a prison in North Florida into a second immigrant detention site.
- Elon Musk must face lawsuit claiming he ran illegal $1 million election lottery 🔥🔥Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world's richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.
- Tulsi Gabbard announces plans to cut intelligence staff by half 🔥The director of national intelligence will also revoke the security clearances for 37 US intelligence officials who served under Biden and Obama.
- Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war 🔥Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000 ...
- F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents 🔥
- Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations 🔥The Trump administration says it’s reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations ...
- Opinion | I’m a Proud Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live. 🔥
- N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge 🔥
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.
- Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom 🔥🔥Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 191. 8/21/25 🔥🔥… A federal judge ruled today Alina Habba has been illegally serving as the acting US attorney for NJ.
- NEWS: California Supreme Court Green Lights Democratic Redistricting Effort 🔥🔥The California Supreme Court has rejected a Republican appeal to block Democratic mid-decade redistricting efforts. California Democrats are now full steam ahead to pass their own maps.
- Friday Morning Coffee with Andrew Weissmann to Discuss 1984, 8am ET. 🔥Friday morning at 8 ET, grab a mug of coffee and join Andrew Weissmann and me for a conversation about the Civil Discourse book club pick for August: 1984.
- The Great Un-Blackening: How Trump Tears and White Fragility Are Remaking Media 🔥How did Jillian Michaels become a CNN-certified slavery scholar? The answer is in Joe Scarborough's text messages.
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.
- Founder of Google's Generative AI Team Says Don't Even Bother Getting a Law or Medical Degree, Because AI's Going to Destroy Both Those Careers Before You Can Even Graduate† 🔥🔥🔥The man behind Google's first generative AI program has some stark advice for advanced degree-seekers: don't do it, because AI will beat you.
- Why Did Meta’s AI Policy Let Chatbots Have ‘Sensual’ Conversations With Kids?† 🔥🔥🔥Forget the AI apocalypse: chatbots are already wreaking havoc. But it’s not too late for Congress to do something to bring tech companies to heel.
- Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells† 🔥🔥Get ready for some AI spreadsheeting.
- Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI† Critics of generative AI often describe it as a “plagiarism machine.” They may be right, though not in the sense they mean. With rare exceptions, generat ...
- 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.
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.
- Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Critics of generative AI often describe it as a “plagiarism machine.” They may be right, though not in the sense they mean. With rare exceptions, generat ...
- 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-
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Critics of generative AI often describe it as a “plagiarism machine.” They may be right, though not in the sense they mean. With rare exceptions, generat ...
- Numerical models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes 🔥Artificial intelligence (AI)-based models are revolutionizing weather forecasting and have surpassed leading numerical weather prediction systems on various benchmark tasks. However, their ability to ...
- Suspension of Submissions to Generalist Preprint Server for Review and Next Steps — Community Servers Hosted by OSF Preprints Remain Active Effective August 25, 2025, COS will suspend submissions to its generalist preprint server hosted by OSF Preprints. The generalist server has operated alongside community-run preprint servers on OSF Pr...
- Explainable AI in Healthcare: to Explain, to Predict, or to Describe? Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods are designed to provide information about how AI-based models make predictions. In healthcare, there is a widespread expectation that these methods…
- Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews† We study the impact of replacing human recruiters with AI voice agents to conduct job interviews. Partnering with a recruitment firm, we conducted a natural fie ...
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)
- Calvinball 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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