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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- Patel Invoked the Fifth Amendment in a Case Tied to Trump 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Opinion | The easiest way to end district gerrymandering? Eliminating districts. 🔥🔥Save democracy by holding a single, winners-take-all vote for congressional seats in every state.
- Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge 🔥
- National Guard now carrying weapons in D.C. 🔥Guard members will carry their service-issued weapons, which may include pistols or rifles, and “detentions may occur leading to arrests,” a spokesperson said.
- Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown 🔥President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
- Trump's redistricting push could bring decades of Republican rule to the US House 🔥A Reuters/Ipsos poll released this month found that most Americans oppose partisan gerrymandering, to the degree that many worry about U.S. democracy being in jeopardy.
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.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 193. 🔥🔥… Fox actually brought Gym Jordan on to vouch for the credibility of Ghislaine Maxwell: “This confirms what we all knew - President Trump didn’t do anything wrong.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥August 24, 2025 ...
- August 24, 2025 🔥As the administration of President Donald Trump is using loopholes in the nation’s laws to claim the right to use the military against American citizens, Democratic governors are pushing back.
- House Freedom Caucus’ future turns bleak as Chip Roy eyes Texas’ AG race After setting its credibility on fire, and as more members give up their seats, the right-wing faction is struggling to exist.
- Weekend Update #147: The War Will Continue For A While Yet Ukrainians Understanding That They Are Getting Played By The Analytical Community: Trump Ukraine Derangement Syndrome--The Worst Case Yet ...
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.
- 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...
- Who owns the copyright for AI work? The US may not think prompts warrant authorship but China disagrees ...
- How you can stop Peter Thiel’s Palantir† Join the action this Saturday to Defund Palantir ...
- 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.
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.
- Chemputer and Chemputation -- A Universal Chemical Compound Synthesis Machine 🔥🔥Chemputation reframes synthesis as the programmable execution of reaction code on a universally re-configurable hardware graph. Here we prove that a chemputer equipped with a finite, but extensible, s...
- Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale
- Virtuous Machines: Towards Artificial General Science Artificial intelligence systems are transforming scientific discovery by accelerating specific research tasks, from protein structure prediction to materials design, yet remain confined to narrow doma...
- LeanGeo: Formalizing Competitional Geometry problems in Lean Geometry problems are a crucial testbed for AI reasoning capabilities. Most existing geometry solving systems cannot express problems within a unified framework, thus are difficult to integrate with o...
- Interpreting the linear structure of vision-language model embedding spaces ArXiv link for Interpreting the linear structure of vision-language model embedding spaces ...
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)
- No Class Free Popehat (@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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