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.
- Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- TV's Impious Puppets: On Kremlin's Hit List? (Published 2000) 🔥🔥🔥
- Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’ 🔥🔥
- CDC advisers make their first childhood vaccine edit 🔥They voted 8-3 to recommend delaying the use of a measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox vaccine that about 15 percent of children receive.
- I.R.S. Official Sues the Agency, Saying It Leaked Private Data to News Sites 🔥
- The Constitution Protects Jimmy Kimmel’s Mistake 🔥Free speech is under assault.
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!
- Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow 🔥Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing ...
- 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.
- Substack Live with Garry Kasparov: Friday Morning at 9:30 a.m. ET Please join me and Garry Kasparov, the World Chess Champion who has become a democracy advocate, for an important Substack Live Friday morning at 9:30 a.m.
- Judge criticizes Trump admin, blocks effort to quickly deport children to Guatemala Judge Timothy Kelly, appointed by Trump in 2017, questioned whether the "plan" was implemented in "good faith" and found that one initial claim "turned out not to be true."
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.
- In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.
- AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it | Jonny Geller 🔥🔥Basic principles need to be enshrined to protect the sacred craft of storytelling from this automated onslaught, says literary agent Jonny Geller ...
- White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits 🔥Officials say Claude chatbot usage policies block FBI, Secret Service contractors’ work.
- California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign† 🔥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 ...
- 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.
- 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,
- Contracts, Grants, and the Limits of Executive Discretion The current administration has made claims of vast executive discretion with respect to contracts and grants. In a recent argument in Harvard’s contest of fundi ...
- 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 ...
- 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,
- Aligning Constitutional Law At present, American constitutional law gives short shrift to the democratic value of alignment (congruence between governmental outputs and popular preferences ...
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.
- 200,000+ Deep Learning Inferred Periods of Stellar Variability from The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae 🔥🔥Stars exhibit a range of variability periods that depend on their mass, age, and evolutionary stage. For space-based photometric data, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated success in...
- RadGame: An AI-Powered Platform for Radiology Education 🔥ArXiv link for RadGame: An AI-Powered Platform for Radiology Education ...
- 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...
- Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One 🔥Moral judgment is integral to large language model (LLM) alignment and social reasoning. As multi-agent systems gain prominence, it becomes crucial to understand how LLMs function collectively during ...
- China as an Analytical Lens for AI and Society 🔥How can "China" serve as a productive analytical tool for understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence's and society? This commentar ...
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)
- Disney Surrenders 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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