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.
- Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built 🔥🔥
- Opinion | What Americans Need to Know About the Bolton F.B.I. Search 🔥
- Opinion | Trump Gets His Revenge on John Bolton. Who’s Next? 🔥
- Donald Trump fulfills a dream role: Big city mayor 🔥The president’s showy effort to “clean up” D.C. crime, street lights and even the Kennedy Center has ruffled city leaders who say he has overstepped his authority.
- Hegseth Authorizes National Guard Troops in D.C. to Carry Weapons 🔥It remains unclear whether the National Guard soldiers will be armed as they walk through the city.
- Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg 🔥Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’
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.
- It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession” 🔥🔥🔥🔥Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
- BREAKING: Major Jeffrey Epstein Update 🔥We are learning about what the House Oversight Committee has received as Virginia Giuffre's family is blasting the Department of Justice. I speak to Robert Garcia tonight.
- August 23, 2025 “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
- The Little Discussed Secret to Trump's Ruination of America Years ago – twenty-seven to be exact – I wrote a smallish book titled Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, in which I argued that the most powerful force of the then-late-twentieth cen...
- NEWS: Trump Administration Deploying Thousands of National Guard Members to 19 States Trump Administration will deploy thousands of National Guard members to 19 states, Trump set to deploy military to Chicago and New York next, Abrego Garcia is home with his family, and more.
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.
- U.S. tech stocks slide after Altman warns of AI bubble and MIT study casts doubt on the hype 🔥🔥🔥🔥Investors’ long-running enthusiasm for artificial intelligence showed signs of faltering on Tuesday as tech stocks tumbled.
- 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.
- AI Is Replacing Online Moderators, But It's Bad at the Job 🔥Kevin decided on a career in content moderation after his YouTube recommendations took a bewildering swerve. In 2021, videos appeared on his feed depicting violent attacks by Boko Haram, a Nigerian mi...
- How you can stop Peter Thiel’s Palantir Join the action this Saturday to Defund Palantir ...
- 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 ...
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.
- 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...
- 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…
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)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (promoted)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Jaakko Husa (@husajaakko.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Hypervisible (@hypervisible.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Calvinball Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.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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