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.
- Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals 🔥🔥The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
- Inside the White House Struggle to Tame the Epstein Crisis 🔥🔥Finger-pointing, disorganization and unforced errors by Trump advisers made the problem worse. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” the president said.
- Trump Will Slap Tariffs on Imported Drugs, Trucks and Household Furnishings (Gift Article) The president said his tariffs would range from 25 to 100 percent and would go into effect next week.
- Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project ...
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.
- Chaos at DOJ 🔥🔥A recording from Joyce Vance and Bill Kristol's live video ...
- Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack† 🔥🔥The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- Why Democrats Should Shut Down the Government 🔥🔥Guest Submission from Josh Gohlke ...
- Trump Gets His Indictment 🔥This afternoon, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
- Trump the tyrant is on full display — but his acting out highlights how weak he is 🔥Trump got his Comey indictment Thursday and issued a memo directing "domestic terrorism" investigations. And yet, both provided more evidence that Trump is losing.
- September 25, 2025 🔥Today, with the popularity of President Donald J.
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.
- Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the antichrist 🔥🔥🔥🔥This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.
- Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons† 🔥🔥🔥Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
- If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?† 🔥🔥Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.
- Zelenskyy warns AI drones are as dangerous as nuclear weapons† 🔥The Ukrainian president told the UN that it’s in every country’s interest to defeat Russia so as to prevent a catastrophic arms race.
- AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails† 🔥The tool, called Gaggle, uses artificial intelligence to search student documents for signs of unsafe behavior, such as substance abuse or threats of violence.
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.
- The Fed, Offices as Property, and the Meaning of "Cause" 🔥🔥The Federal Reserve Act states that "each member shall hold office for a term of fourteen years from the expiration of the term of his predecessor, unless ...
- Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts† The Denalists' Deck of Cards is a humorous illustration of how libertarian policy groups use denialism. In this context, denialism is the use of rhetorical tech ...
- 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,
- Health Information Purges, Suppression, and Distortion† The Trump administration's health information policies have created an unprecedented assault on medical data integrity, including widesprea ...
- Speech Is Free But Lies Will Cost You: A Comparative Constitutional Law Perspective on Prohibiting False Election Speech in Canada and the United States This Article defends the constitutionality of a statutory prohibition on false election speech using a comparative analysis between Canada and the United S ...
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof Large language models (LLMs) struggle to navigate culturally specific communication norms, limiting their effectiveness in global contexts. We focus on Persian taarof, a social norm in Iranian interac...
- 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...
- Talk Isn't Always Cheap: Understanding Failure Modes in Multi-Agent Debate† While multi-agent debate has been proposed as a promising strategy for improving AI reasoning ability, we find that debate can sometimes be harmful rather than helpful. The prior work has exclusively…
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 and the colorful Parrotlegals (@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)
- Fatal Funnel 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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