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.
- Opinion | Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial 🔥🔥🔥The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better.
- 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.
- Led By Donkeys attacks ‘Orwellian’ arrests after Trump Windsor projections 🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: Campaign group says it was behind stunt that showed images of Trump and Epstein on castle tower ...
- A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups 🔥🔥
- 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Pulled 'Indefinitely' by ABC Over Charlie Kirk Comments 🔥🔥'Jimmy Kimmel Live' was taken off air by ABC and Nexstar after Trump’s FCC chair called on broadcasters to stop airing the show.
- ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure 🔥🔥
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments 🔥ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ‘doing everything they can to score political points’ from Kirk’s killing ...
- Exclusive | Pentagon Lawyers Raise Concerns Over Trump’s Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats 🔥Defense officials worry about the legal implications for military personnel involved in the operation.
- ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing 🔥The decision to indefinitely pre-empt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” follows backlash to comments he made about Charlie Kirk.
- Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’ 🔥Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France ...
- Opinion | 3 Thoughts After Russia’s Drone Incursion Into Poland 🔥
- Disney to Pull Jimmy Kimmel’s Show After Kirk Remarks 🔥Disney said it is pulling ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show in the wake of remarks he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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.
- Don't Be Afraid To Speak Up 🔥🔥🔥Courage is contagious...and we're going to need it!
- Dems Outperformed 2024 in 38 out of 40 Races in 2025 🔥🔥Polls in several key races for governor in 2025 are also encouraging.
- The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. 🔥I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
- NEWS: No Evidence Tying Left Leaning Groups to Kirk Murder Despite Trump Claim 🔥There is no evidence tying left leaning groups to Kirk's murder, the DOJ is deleting studies suggesting white supremacist violence leads domestic terrorism, FBI launches manhunt in Pennsylvania ...
- September 17, 2025 (Wednesday) This evening, John Koblin, Michael M.
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.
- 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...
- In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique? More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.
- Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use The AI company declined to allow requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement.
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 ...
- Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters School vouchers and charter schools are primed to grow at a time when public school systems are experiencing a precipitous decline in enrollment. Unfortunately,
- 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 ...
- Still a Picture, not a Life: Scrutinizing Media in Federal Court Before COVID-19, federal judges largely resisted cameras in their courtrooms; during it, they used webcams to hold court. The American legal system is ...
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...
- An AI-Powered Framework for Analyzing Collective Idea Evolution in Deliberative Assemblies In an era of increasing societal fragmentation, political polarization, and erosion of public trust in institutions, representative deliberative assemblies are emerging as a promising democratic forum...
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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