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 attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans 🔥🔥🔥🔥President Donald Trump will attend the gathering of hundreds of generals summoned to Virginia on short notice by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, adding new security concerns.
- What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed 🔥🔥🔥
- Examining James Comey’s 2020 Testimony at the Heart of His Indictment (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥The charges against the former F.B.I. director center on an appearance he made before a Senate committee in September 2020. Here’s a closer look.
- How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart 🔥🔥Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent ...
- Trump Plans to Attend Gathering of U.S. Military Officers 🔥
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.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥🔥September 28, 2025 ...
- Speak truth to power 🔥And other thoughts about a difficult week in the US ...
- September 28, 2025 🔥Late last night, President Donald J.
- Youth Protest in Serbia 🔥And some thoughts for America ...
- Sunday Morning Wrap-Up Here’s your Sunday morning wrap-up!
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.
- Exclusive: Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Meta is targeting what it sees as onerous AI and tech policy bills across the country.
- Settlement of AI lawsuit gets tentative approval; some writers will get paid, but mostly only if they make claims | NWU† 🔥🔥On September 25, 2025, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave preliminary (tentative) approval to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement of some of the...
- Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist 🔥🔥This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.
- Introducing NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research and education with AI OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions.
- Waymo driverless car stopped by Bay Area police during DUI operation Police in one Bay Area city expected to spend Friday night looking for impaired drivers. Instead, they found themselves pulling over a car with no driver at all.
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.
- Free Exercise Uncertainty: Original Meaning? History and Tradition? Pragmatic Nuance?† 🔥🔥When a law not targeted at religion nonetheless has the incidental effect of substantially burdening a religious practice, does the Free Exercise Clause of the ...
- An International Study on Coral Reef Litigation: The Fiction of Ecological Remedy† Ship groundings and oil spills continue to destroy coral ecosystems with impunity, despite growing global attention to reef degradation. Yet, the complex task o ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Two Types of AI Existential Risk: Decisive and Accumulative 🔥🔥The conventional discourse on existential risks (x-risks) from AI typically focuses on abrupt, dire events caused by advanced AI systems, particularly those that might achieve or surpass human-level i...
- Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation 🔥Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...
- AI Authorship: A Case of History Repeating Itself? 🔥The idea of computers creating works which might be copyrightable (be it called AI, computational creativity, algorithmic authorship, or anything else) is ol ...
- AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour† 🔥This position paper argues for two claims regarding AI testing and evaluation. First, to remain informative about deployment behaviour, evaluations need account for the possibility that AI systems und...
- Smooth markets: A basic mechanism for organizing gradient-based learners† 🔥With the success of modern machine learning, it is becoming increasingly important to understand and control how learning algorithms interact. Unfortunately, negative results from game theory show 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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Simon Cox (@simonfrcox.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fatal Funnel Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.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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