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.
- Why Boomers Have More Money Than Everyone Else 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥New research shows a large and growing divergence in net worth between Americans over age 75 and those under 35.
- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- These House Democrats seek a new middle ground on immigration 🔥🔥🔥🔥The New Democratic Coalition unveiled a plan to win back voters on immigration but they need the party’s support.
- Opinion | Trump’s Stunning Power Grab on Elections 🔥🔥
- Intel warns US stake could hurt international sales, future grants 🔥Intel said on Monday that the 10% stake by the U.S. government in the chipmaker could pose risks to its business, from potentially harming international sales to limiting its ability to secure future government grants.
- Secretive, Peter Thiel-Founded 'Tech Bilderberg 🔥Where well-connected folks sit around and discuss naughty ideas that the American peasantry just wouldn't get.
- Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study 🔥Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm ...
- Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes 🔥Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”
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 Uses Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member Out of Office 🔥🔥Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern ...
- August 25, 2025 🔥This morning, President Donald J.
- NEWS: Veterans Stage Sit-In in Washington, D.C. to Protest National Guard Deployment 🔥Veterans stage sit-in in D.C. to protest National Guard deployment, Judge blocks deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Trump goes after media licenses, and the House subpoenas Epstein's estate ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 194. 8/25/25 🔥… Trump held 3 press events in the Oval Office today, the first one to announce a series of executive orders headlined by his intention to have DOJ prosecute people for burning flags, the 2nd one with the new president of South Korea, and the 3rd one with AG ...
- BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Detained Again and Faces Deportation to Uganda 🔥Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been arrested by ICE and faces deportation to Uganda, Trump turns the military on civilians, Trump threatens to prosecute Chris Christie, and the National Guard is now armed ...
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.
- Elon Musk's xAI secretly dropped its benefit corporation status while fighting OpenAI 🔥🔥🔥Elon Musk started xAI as a public benefit corporation, but dropped that distinction last year as the company's operations in Memphis, Tennessee were expanding.
- 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.
- Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children 🔥🔥Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
- Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple 🔥🔥Musk claims the App Store “deprioritizes” Grok.
- Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over App Store Rankings 🔥The xAI lawsuit claims that Grok's ranking below ChatGPT is a sign of allegedly monopolistic behavior.
- Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple Over Claims It Favors OpenAI 🔥
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 ...
- The Executive Power Clause (This is Part 2 of a two-article series. The first installment is https://ssrn.com/abstract=3328945.)
- A Private Right To Public Accommodations A new front has opened in the clash between the First Amendment and antidiscrimination law. Earlier cases involved businesses invoking "speech" to avo ...
- Victim Personal Statements: A Review of Empirical Research The research we have reviewed has been generally favourable to the Victim Personal Statements (VPS) scheme. Although only a minority of victims submit a stateme ...
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...
- 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...
- CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene-editing Experiments 🔥ArXiv link for CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene-editing Experiments ...
- Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens AI Alignment, primarily in the form of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has been a cornerstone of the post-training phase in developing Large Language Models (LLMs). It has also been...
- Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale†
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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