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.
- Thornaby transgender woman guilty of sexually assaulting man 🔥🔥🔥🔥Ciara Watkin lied about being a biological female when the pair had a sexual liaison, a court hears.
- FBI Targets Yet Another Trump Enemy Because He Made Trump Mad 🔥🔥🔥🔥Donald Trump’s FBI searched the home of John Bolton, who became one of the president’s most prominent foes after leaving his first administration.
- Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief 🔥🔥🔥
- Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say 🔥🔥
- Trump Has No Cards 🔥🔥Why would Putin need to make a deal with him?
- Trump Halts Orsted Wind Project in Another Blow to Industry 🔥The Trump administration has halted work on an offshore wind farm being constructed off the coast of Rhode Island by Denmark’s Orsted A/S.
- FBI raids home of John Bolton, Trump’s ex-national security adviser 🔥Search reportedly part of investigation into classified documents as FBI director warns ‘no one is above law’
- Ghislaine Maxwell Told Trump's DOJ She's 'Always Liked' and 'Admires' Him 🔥The Justice Department released transcripts of its interview with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who said she has “always liked” Trump.
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 Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law - Bluesky 🔥🔥A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.
- Live with Joyce Vance 🔥A recording from Joyce Vance's live video ...
- BREAKING: Major Jeffrey Epstein Updates 🔥The Department of Justice sent the House the first batch of Epstein files, the DOJ released the Maxwell interview to the public, Trump says he is the nation's chief law enforcement office, and more ...
- August 22, 2025 🔥In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize i...
- The FBI As We Knew It is Gone 🔥It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy 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.
- OpenAI lawyers question Meta's role in Elon Musk's $97B takeover bid | TechCrunch 🔥🔥🔥🔥OpenAI says that Elon Musk met with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to discuss a $97 billion takeover bid of the ChatGPT-maker.
- Musk Tried To Get Meta’s Zuckerberg To Join His Unsolicited $97.4 Billion Bid For OpenAI, Court Filing Says 🔥OpenAI said in a court filing that Musk “communicated” with Zuckerberg regarding “potential financing arrangements or investments” in connection with the ChatGPT-maker.
- Character.AI Explores Sale or New Funding Amid Rising Costs | PYMNTS.com 🔥Character.AI is weighing its options between a potential sale or raising new capital, sources told The Information. The maker of artificial intelligence ...
- Elon Musk Wanted Mark Zuckerberg to Join OpenAI Bid, Court Filing Says 🔥A Musk-led consortium offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI as part of his continuing legal battle with the company he co-founded alongside Sam Altman.
- Musk sought Zuckerberg help for OpenAI bid, court filing shows 🔥Elon Musk tried to enlist rival Mark Zuckerberg for the $97.4 billion bid that his consortium made for OpenAI earlier this year, but the CEO of Meta Platforms did not come on board, OpenAI said in a court filing on Thursday.
- This AI-Fueled Startup Is Helping Attorneys Find New Class Action Lawsuits 🔥Darrow is striking it rich by scouring the internet for corporate misdeeds. But one of its revenue sources—sharing legal awards—raises ethical concerns among some lawyers.
- 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.
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.
- Democracy Preservation Through Congressional Constitutional Supremacy: An Empirical Framework for Constitutional Crisis Response This Article addresses a fundamental and unsettled question in American constitutional law: when do judicial decisions lose democratic legitimacy and require co ...
- The Supreme Court in Bondage: Constitutional Stare Decisis, Legal Formalism, and the Future of Unenumerated Rights This essay advances a formalist conception of constitutional stare decisis. I shall argue that instrumentalist accounts of precedent are inherently unsatisfyin ...
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 ...
- Yikes! The Bluebook's Generative AI Rule is Flawed Criticism of the Bluebook is not new. The Bluebook is an arguable form of hazing, with a long and storied history of making first-year students cry. Judge Posne ...
- CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene-editing Experiments ArXiv link for CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene-editing Experiments ...
- 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...
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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