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.
- Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause 🔥🔥🔥By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
- Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz consortium will control 80% of TikTok in U.S.: Report 🔥🔥🔥Current users of the app will be asked to shift to a new app, which TikTok has built and is testing.
- On Charlie Kirk Show, JD Vance Talks of Crackdown on Liberal Groups (Gift Article) 🔥🔥Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.
- FBI Director Patel set to testify on Capitol Hill amid questions over his leadership 🔥🔥Kash Patel's appearance in the Senate comes at a delicate time for the director, who is a loyalist of President Trump but has no experience leading an organization like the FBI.
- Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 🔥🔥
- DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing 🔥🔥Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
- Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. 🔥🔥
- How Trump’s Crime Crackdown Muted Other Parts of D.C. Life 🔥
- JD Vance threatens crackdown on ‘far-left’ groups after Charlie Kirk shooting 🔥Vice-president says White House will pursue those who praise Kirk’s death and groups that ‘promote terrorism’
- The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security 🔥DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
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.
- September 16, 2025 🔥🔥The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was “make fetch happen.” It’s a reference to the film Mean Girls, when one of the characters tries to make the word “fetch” trendy, using it t...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 208. 9/16/25 🔥🔥… AG Pam Bondi went on Katie Miller’s podcast and echoed the authoritarian comments about prosecuting Democrats that JD Vance and Katie’s husband Stephen made yesterday: "There's free speech and then ...
- NEWS: JD Vance Endorses Mass "Doxxing" Campaign to Punish Americans Following Kirk Shooting 🔥Vance endorses a mass doxxing campaign following Kirk's shooting, Musk tells is followers to "fight or die," Trump sues the New York Times for $15 billion, and Trump removes slavery exhibits ...
- NEWS: Alarm Bells Go Off as Pam Bondi Pushes to Criminalize "Hate Speech" 🔥Pam Bondi pushes forward with criminalizing "hate speech," Trump removes FBI agents from investigating child predator networks to conduct deportations, Kash Patel grilled by the Senate, and more ...
- The US Alienation of India is Backfiring Badly Hello All,
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.
- A teen contemplating suicide turned to a chatbot. Is it liable for her death? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A lawsuit filed by the parents of 13-year-old Juliana Peralta against Character AI is the latest to allege a chatbot contributed to a teen’s death by suicide.
- If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector† 🔥There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the…
- ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification 🔥OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.
- California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign S.B. 524 Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as watchd...
- Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries | TechCrunch† Penske's lawsuit accuses Google of abusing its monopoly power in search to force publishers to support AI summaries.
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.
- Economic Inequality and the Separation of the Economic and the Political in Modern Constitutionalism† 🔥🔥 This essay examines the relationship between constitutionalism and economic inequality from the lens of the critique of political economy. In pa ...
- Judicial Time: A Research Note† 🔥This Research Note is an effort to lay out some ways of thinking about the relation between political time and judicial time. Political time identifies two g ...
- Sex, Gender Recognition, and Equality Law: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 In For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, the UK Supreme Court set out a test for determining when a Gender Recognition Certificate will not modify an individ ...
- Lawfinding's Dilemma: Legal Formalism, or Judicial Neutrality† Judges wield enormous power. What justifies their exercise of that power? A familiar view is that their legitimacy lies in finding, not making, law. Th ...
- Trump's Executions, Biden's Commutations, and Federalism† During his first term, President Trump executed thirteen federal prisoners. At the end of his own presidency, Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of thirty-s ...
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.
- The Ideation-Execution Gap: Execution Outcomes of LLM-Generated versus Human Research Ideas 🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in accelerating the scientific research pipeline. A key capability for this process is the ability to generate novel research ideas, and prior studies h...
- "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community 🔥🔥Human-AI interaction researchers face an overwhelming challenge: synthesizing insights from thousands of empirical studies to understand how AI impacts people and inform effective design. Existing app...
- Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update rul...
- Why Language Models Hallucinate Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations" per...
- Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models† Generalist robots that can perform a range of different tasks in open-world settings must be able to not only reason about the steps needed to accomplish their goals, but also process complex instruct...
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) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social)
- Shoaib M Khan (@shoaibmkhan.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.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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