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.
- Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Will the C.D.C. Survive? 🔥🔥
- Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign 🔥🔥
- Trump, Gabbard fired top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit 🔥🔥Days after the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump ordered the security clearance revocation of a top CIA official and Russia expert.
- Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary 🔥🔥Vermont senator says Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people as head of the US health department ...
- Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim 🔥Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA ...
- Appeals court strikes down Trump’s tariffs as illegal but leaves them in place 🔥Trump’s cornerstone economic policy faced another challenge as a federal appeals court ruled he did not have the authority under an emergency powers act to impose them.
- Opinion | Why the Texas Democrats’ Walkout Worked 🔥
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.
- Federal judge signs off on DOJ and Oklahoma's sham anti-immigrant lawsuit 🔥🔥Judge Ronald White did not even consider a brief arguing the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter before issuing an order striking down a decades-old Oklahoma law.
- August 30, 2025 🔥Just days before Labor Day, a holiday designed to celebrate the importance and power of American workers in the United States, the Transportation Department cancelled $679 million in funding for offsh...
- NEWS: Trump Fundraises on his Desire to "Get to Heaven" and Trump Cuts Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Funding 🔥Trump fundraises on his desire to "Get to Heaven," Trump cuts pediatric brain cancer research funding, Trump advances plan to create Department of War, and Epstein's birthday book heading to Congress ...
- 1984: Lessons Learned 🔥Live with Princeton Professor Kim Scheppele ...
- NEWS: Trump is "Fine" and Golfing Amid Health Speculation 🔥Trump is "fine" and golfing amid health rumors, Trump says ending tariffs will be the downfall of America, Republicans are heckled across the country at town halls, extremists discuss using drones ...
- A Strategic Air Campaign For Ukraine: Crushing Russian Mobility Through Oil and Rail Attacks 🔥And The Ukrainians Might Already Have Understood This ...
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.
- ChatGPT encouraged Adam Raine’s suicidal thoughts. His family’s lawyer says OpenAI knew it was broken† 🔥🔥Jay Edelson rebukes Sam Altman’s push to put ChatGPT in schools when the CEO knows about its problems ...
- Campbell's Law: Something Every Educator Should Know† As soon as I learned Campbell's Law, how I conceived my teaching changed.
- Stand up to Trump on Big Tech, says EU antitrust chief† Bloc must be prepared to walk away from trade deal with US if it retaliates against Brussels’ digital laws, warns Teresa Ribera ...
- Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action† Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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.
- Just-Right Government: Interstate Compacts and Multistate Governance in an Era of Political Polarization, Policy Paralysis, and Bad-Faith Partisanship† 🔥🔥Those committed to addressing the political, economic, and moral crises of the day—voting rights, racial justice, climate change, gaping inequality, and the ong ...
- Law, Borders, and Speech Conference: Proceedings and Materials† 🔥Tensions between national law and the Internet’s global architecture have existed since the network’s earliest days. They took on new urgency in recent years, w ...
- The Unconstitutional Attempt to Criminalize Naming ICE Agents† Senators Marsha Blackburn and Lindsey Graham propose to make it a federal crime to publish the name of a federal official with the intent of obstructing that in ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment† Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- AI Procurement As Regulatory Reconnaissance† Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is a black box technology in a black box industry. Some view AI as a lifechanging technology capable of advancing socie ...
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.
- Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology† 🔥🔥🔥 Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul ...
- Publish to Perish: Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Assisted Peer Review† 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into the scientific peer-review process, raising new questions about their reliability and resilience to manipulation. In this work, we i...
- The wall confronting large language models
- Unbundling AI Openness The debate over AI openness—whether to make components of an artificial intelligence system available for public inspection and modification—forces polic ...
- Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis Much of the excitement in modern AI is driven by the observation that scaling up existing systems leads to better performance. But does better performance necessarily imply better internal representat...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social)
- Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Immergluck (@danimmergluck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dburbach.bsky.social (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.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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