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.
- Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Top military officials have voiced concern over the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership.
- Exclusive: Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades as Trump shifts focus to deportations 🔥🔥🔥The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the slowest rate since at least the late 1990s.
- Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK 🔥New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
- Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats 🔥Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say ...
- 'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out 🔥Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."
- She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account 🔥
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.
- Pete Hegseth and the Generals 🔥🔥🔥The story of self-styled “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth’s meeting for top military leaders has evolved since the earliest leaks last week.
- British Politics' Midlife Crisis 🔥Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters ...
- What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression 🔥I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
- September 29, 2025 Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) left a meeting with President Donald J.
- Fabricating Dangers, Ignoring Real Threats As the military descends needlessly on another American city, we cannot let Trump's angry delusions distract us from genuine crises ...
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.
- OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out 🔥🔥🔥Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
- California’s Gavin Newsom Signs Major AI Safety Law 🔥🔥🔥Gavin Newsom signed a major safety law on artificial intelligence, creating one of the strongest sets of rules about the technology in the nation.
- Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out 🔥🔥Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
- Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist 🔥🔥This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.
- California bill regulating top AI companies signed into law The law is one of the first in the U.S. to place new regulations on AI companies.
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.
- Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis 🔥🔥🔥In a crisis of authority, where it is unclear whether executive officials will comply with judicial decisions, the courts may seem to have limited reme ...
- Legal Moralism in Disguise in Child Custody Cases Conventional wisdom is that family law has moved away from morality-based decision-making, with moral questions left more to individuals than to the courts.
- Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus: Affective Tension Monitoring as Police Epistemology Farmer develops the concept of the civil order to help understand the function of criminal law, but civil order is a particularly capacious concept. In this art ...
- Thomson Reuters v. ROSS (3rd Cir. 2025), Brief for Amicus Curiae Brian L. Frye, Jess Miers, and Mateusz Blaszczyk in Support of Appellant This is an amicus curiae brief filed by Brian L. Frye, Jess Miers, and Mateusz Blaszczyk in support of ROSS Intelligence, Inc., arguing that Thomson Reuter ...
- 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 ...
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...
- Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning 🔥🔥Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation d...
- Can Code Language Models Learn Clarification-Seeking Behaviors? 🔥ArXiv link for Can Code Language Models Learn Clarification-Seeking Behaviors?
- 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?...
- The Cure is in the Cause: A Filesystem for Container Debloating 🔥Containers have become a standard for deploying applications due to their convenience, but they often suffer from significant software bloat-unused files that inflate image sizes, increase provisionin...
- 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 ...
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)
- MedBed 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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