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.
- Four people arrested in Washington after alleged hate crime attack on trans woman 🔥🔥🔥🔥Three teenagers and one adult arrested in Renton after an alleged attack left a 39-year-old woman hospitalized ...
- Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.
- Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visas 🔥🔥
- Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him 🔥🔥It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland ...
- Seeing Enemies Everywhere 🔥🔥The government’s working definition of “hate speech” now seems to include anything that offends Donald Trump personally—including late-night comedy.
- Pentagon Demands Journalists Allow Government to Vet Information 🔥The US Defense Department is requiring journalists agree to submit anything they publish about it for government approval as a condition of access, the latest Trump administration effort to control du...
- Court Rules Against Arts Endowment on Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order 🔥
- Civilians made up 15 of every 16 people killed by Israel in Gaza since March, data suggests 🔥Report from independent conflict tracker Acled indicates one of the highest civilian death rates since start of war ...
- I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot 🔥Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot ...
- Read the Pentagon’s New Restrictions on Reporters 🔥The Pentagon said it would forbid reporters from gathering any information that had not been authorized for release, and would revoke press passes from any journalists who did not obey.
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.
- Why Washington Post fired me 🔥🔥🔥Read the official termination letter for yourself.
- Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow 🔥Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing ...
- “Show me the man and I’ll find the crime” 🔥With apologies, this is a long post for any night, let alone a Saturday, but Trump’s abuse of the power of the prosecutor and efforts to directly control the work of the Justice Department make it ess...
- Paper Clip Protest 🔥On Thursday, E.
- September 20, 2025 Is it possible that the last time I posted a picture was September 1?
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.
- Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.
- 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 ...
- Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
- In Colombia, Big Tech Lobbyists Weakened Regulation to Protect Children's Mental Health | TechPolicy.Press Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
- Examining the Harm of AI Chatbots | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary ...
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 ...
- Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning† First Amendment law tends to focus on the exercise of formal government power. Nevertheless, for over six decades now, it has been black letter law that informa ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal, not lionizing a dead white supremacist (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Disney Surrenders Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Shoaib M Khan (@shoaibmkhan.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (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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