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.
- N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge 🔥🔥🔥
- Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Felony Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C. 🔥🔥
- They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back. 🔥🔥Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
- Reform UK prepared to deport 600,000 under migration plans 🔥🔥The party outlines its plans to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK on small boats.
- Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich 🔥🔥Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents ...
- Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge “subversive” federal workers 🔥🔥Some have been fired. Two have moved abroad, fearing for their safety. Yet free-speech experts say the group's websites remain just outside the boundaries of violating personal privacy.
- Exclusive | Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia 🔥🔥The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks.
- 'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges 🔥Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
- Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Suit Against Federal Bench in Maryland 🔥
- Lisa Cook Says She Will Not Step Down From the Fed Board 🔥
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.
- The Nineteenth Amendment 🔥🔥Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment’s certification in 1920.
- Trump's SCOTUS appointees each shared alarming views in allowing NIH grant cuts 🔥Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett each wrote something in the shadow docket case — disturbing opinions in light of broader attacks on the rule of law.
- August 26, 2025 🔥Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 195. 8/26/25 … The theme of the day was MAGA backlash against three of Trump’s latest policy announcements - admission of 600,000 students from China, his flag burning order, and govt taking an ownership stake in ...
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) BREAKING: The Justice Department ran to the U.S. Supreme Court in the foreign aid funding case (again) on Tuesday evening, after orders from both the appeals court and district court reiterated that t...
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.
- Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors 🔥🔥🔥🔥Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
- 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.”
- ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims 🔥As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.
- 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.
- CNN International | CNN 🔥View the latest news and breaking news from around the world.
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.
- Bias and the “Low Bar” of Relevance 🔥🔥Relevance, commonly understood as the cornerstone of evidence law, determines what the legal system acknowledges as a fact and which facts matter, t ...
- Of Labor, Antitrust, and Why the Proposed House Settlement Will Not Solve the NCAA's Problem The NCAA recently settled three antitrust lawsuits. With a significant payout, it hopes to put its antitrust worries behind it. In doing so, it seeks to follow ...
- 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 ...
- The Administrative Law of McCarthyism This Article recovers the largely overlooked legal and administrative history of the federal loyalty-security program, and argues that it played a formative ...
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.
- 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...
- Generative AI in Higher Education: Evidence from an Elite College 🔥Generative AI is transforming higher education, yet systematic evidence on student adoption remains limited. Using novel survey data from a selective U.S. college, we document over 80 percent of stude...
- A Taxonomy of Transcendence 🔥ArXiv link for A Taxonomy of Transcendence ...
- Why Cannot Large Language Models Ever Make True Correct Reasoning? 🔥Recently, with the application progress of AIGC tools based on large language models (LLMs), led by ChatGPT, many AI experts and more non-professionals are trumpeting the "reasoning ability" of the LL...
- Learned Structure in CARTRIDGES: Keys as Shareable Routers in Self-Studied Representations 🔥ArXiv link for Learned Structure in CARTRIDGES: Keys as Shareable Routers in Self-Studied Representations ...
- 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)
- Whale-Killing Windmill Hate (@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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