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.
- At a Queens Surf School, Kids’ Confidence Comes in Waves 🔥🔥🔥
- Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Open Inquiries Into Handling of Homan Investigation 🔥🔥
- Drone Strike in Haiti Kills 8 Children at a Birthday Party 🔥🔥
- Ed Davey urges US cancer scientists to come to UK 🔥🔥The Lib Dem leader will use his party conference speech to attack Donald Trump's ...
- A $100,000 Per Worker Visa Fee Tips the Balance to Big Tech 🔥🔥
- Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access 🔥🔥
- Opinion | What’s wrong with a military campaign against the drug trade 🔥🔥Trump’s boat strikes against the cartels risk crossing the line between law enforcement and war.
- Who stopped the UN escalator? Likely Trump's videographer, says UN 🔥🔥The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.
- Keir Starmer to launch progressive fightback against ‘decline and division’ fuelled by far right 🔥🔥Prime minister expected to warn UK is ‘at a crossroads’ as he sets out plan to counter Nigel Farage and Reform ...
- Trump makes unproven claims linking autism to Tylenol use by pregnant women 🔥Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.
- Two shot on Capitol Hill in apparent exchange of gunfire 🔥Two people were shot, five were robbed, one was carjacked, and two were stabbed in an outbreak of crime in D.C. on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
- Opinion | ‘That Was Shocking’: Four Autism Experts React to Trump’s Plan 🔥
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.
- Condemning Crimes—Unless They're Your Own 🔥🔥MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian reported over the weekend that in “an undercover operation last year,” Trump’s braggadocious border czar Tom Homan was recorded by the FBI “accepting $50,000 in ...
- 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 213. 9/23/25 🔥… There are two key elections to watch tonight, as Democratic candidates look to keep their streak going where they outperform the results of the 2024 election in one district after another across the...
- BREAKING: Secret Service Dismantles Massive Telecom Threat Capable of Crippling New York Ahead of U.N. Summit Secret Service dismantles massive threat ahead of United Nations General Assembly, World Health agencies tell people not to listen to Trump, Sinclair Broadcasting refuses to air Kimmel's show ...
- September 23, 2025 In New York City this morning, the United Nations opened its General Assembly, marking the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations itself.
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.
- Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law 🔥🔥🔥The Texas senator has introduced a law allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
- 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.
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.
- Corner Post, Caremark and the Rule of Law: When Corporate Fiduciaries Should Reject Corner Post's Invitation to Sue 🔥🔥The Supreme Court’s ongoing overhaul of administrative law is not limited to blockbuster cases striking down Chevron deference and invigorating t ...
- '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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Technical overview and architecture of the FastNet Machine Learning weather prediction model, version 1.0 We present FastNet version 1.0, a data-driven medium range numerical weather prediction (NWP) model based on a Graph Neural Network architecture, developed jointly between the Alan Turing Institute an...
- 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...
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)
- Aseeyeomanaseetomanoyo 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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