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.
- Trump to sign order designating antifa a terrorist organization 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order as soon as Monday designating the antifa movement a "terrorist organization," the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
- Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war 🔥🔥🔥🔥Schools and stations closed and ports blocked in one of Europe’s biggest demonstrations opposing Israel’s offensive ...
- Opinion | The Retribution Has Begun 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash 🔥🔥
- Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night 🔥🔥
- 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.
- Pam Bondi Isn’t the President’s Enforcer 🔥The Justice Department is meant to serve the public, not the Trump White House.
- 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 ...
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 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 Pentagon's Attack on Free Speech Doesn't Have To Work 🔥🔥When it comes to things the government can’t do without violating the First Amendment, imposing prior restraints on what the media can report is near the top of the list, absent a compelling rationale...
- Trump's Expanding Mafia State 🔥While Trump and his loyal mobsters continue to exploit their power for personal benefit, we the people must loudly oppose their corruption and injustice ...
- SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it 🔥This is no way to run a court, let alone a country.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 212. 9/22/25 … Trump and RFK Jr gave a batshit crazy press conference on autism where we heard a bunch of novel scientific theories.
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 ...
- California issues historic fine over lawyer’s ChatGPT fabrications 🔥🔥The court of appeals issued an historic fine after 21 of 23 quotes in the lawyer's opening brief were fake. Courts want more AI regulations.
- 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...
- Did This Parent Hire a Lawyer? Schools Face a New Challenge With AI 🔥Complaints written with AI can have a very legalistic tone, costing schools extra staff time and money to respond.
- AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach | TechPolicy.Press Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.
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 ...
- 'Does this unit have a soul?' AI-Generated Works, Creativity Theory, and Copyright Policy The protection of works generated using artificial intelligence has been one of copyright law’s most vexing questions in recent years. This paper contends that ...
- Economic Security and the Separation of Powers The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power “[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,” but today the exercise of the foreign commerce power resides prim ...
- Protecting Promises: Shielding Journalists Against Compelled Disclosure In recent, high-profile cases, prosecutors have sought confidential or off-the-record reporting materials from journalists-and judges have granted that access.
- Saying "Yes, and" to a Changing Legal Profession Through Improv As legal practitioners confront the potent impacts of society’s latest technological innovation, legal education can and should say “yes, and” to all the change ...
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...
- Mouse vs. AI: A Neuroethological Benchmark for Visual Robustness and Neural Alignment Visual robustness under real-world conditions remains a critical bottleneck for modern reinforcement learning agents. In contrast, biological systems such as mice show remarkable resilience to environ...
- The (Short-Term) Effects of Large Language Models on Unemployment and Earnings Large Language Models have spread rapidly since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, accompanied by claims of major productivity gains but also concerns about job displacement. This paper examines the...
- Resolving the Body-Order Paradox of Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
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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