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.
- The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate ...
- Trump Officials Didn't Know If His Order To Prosecute Foes Was Meant To Be Secret 🔥🔥🔥🔥Donald Trump surprised members of his administration with public demand that Pam Bondi quickly prosecute Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and James Comey.
- Opinion | Crony Capitalism Has Reached a New Low 🔥🔥
- Ed Davey urges regulator to go after Elon Musk over X 'crimes' 🔥🔥The Lib Dem leader urges Ofcom to launch an investigation into the tech mogul and his social platform.
- From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home 🔥🔥Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies ...
- Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company 🔥Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta ...
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.
- Be Loud — For America 🔥🔥🔥🔥By Governor JB Pritzker ...
- “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...
- September 21, 2025 On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics postponed the release of the annual report on consumer expenditures—a key report for understanding inflation—without explanation.
- The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.
- NEWS: White House Blindsided as Trump Posts Private Directive to Bondi Urging Prosecutions of Opponents The White House was stunned after Trump posted his private directive to Bondi urging political prosecutions, Homan accepted the $50,000 cash at a Cava, US to control TikTok algorithm, and more.
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.
- 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 ...
- The AI Therapist Epidemic: When Bots Replace Humans - Coda Story 🔥They promise judgment-free therapy at your fingertips. What they deliver is an algorithmic echo chamber that validates your worst impulses, isolates you from human connection, and even coaches you tow...
- Better than a Google Search? Effectiveness of Generative AI Chatbots as Information Seeking Tools in Law, Health Sciences, and Library and Information Sciences Generative AI chatbots are rapidly reshaping information-seeking behaviours due to their ability to cite to online sources in responses to user queries. Many un ...
- 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.
- Biggest law firms lead way in using - and showing they use - AI New research has highlighted the importance of using artificial intelligence – and being seen to use it – among the largest law firms.
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.
- Where Shielding Clauses Yield: Women's Equal Rights following the Supreme Court's Dickson Decision 🔥The paper relies on the reasons of the case of Dickson v Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, 2024 SCC 10, concerning section 25 of the Canadian Char ...
- Can States Force ICE to Take Off the Masks? No. But that does not mean they are entirely powerless to combat the practice.
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.
- Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...
- Latent learning: episodic memory complements parametric learning by enabling flexible reuse of experiences When do machine learning systems fail to generalize, and what mechanisms could improve their generalization? Here, we draw inspiration from cognitive science to argue that one weakness of machine lear...
- Better than a Google Search? Effectiveness of Generative AI Chatbots as Information Seeking Tools in Law, Health Sciences, and Library and Information Sciences Generative AI chatbots are rapidly reshaping information-seeking behaviours due to their ability to cite to online sources in responses to user queries. Many un ...
- Self-Adapting Language Models ArXiv link for Self-Adapting Language Models ...
- VCBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Venture Capital
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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