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.
- Navy Seal pardoned of war crimes by Trump described by colleagues as 'freaking evil' 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Eddie Gallagher ‘OK with killing anything that moved’, Iraq veterans told investigators in testimony obtained by New York Times ...
- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass U.S. Cities Should Be Military ‘Training Grounds’ 🔥🔥
- In Unusual Move, Prosecutors Secure Federal Charges From Local Grand Jury 🔥🔥
- Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders 🔥🔥
- U.S. Navy relieves aircraft carrier commander who wrote letter urging coronavirus action 🔥🔥The U.S. Navy relieved the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt's captain of his command on Thursday, punishing him for the leak of a scathing letter he sent to superiors that sought stronger measures for curbing a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship.
- Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration 🔥🔥The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.
- Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech 🔥🔥
- Rachel Reeves to lift two-child benefit cap in November’s budget 🔥Exclusive: Officials exploring options to change rule that affected 1.7 million children in Great Britain last year UK politics live – latest updates ...
- A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump 🔥
- Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court 🔥
- Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left 🔥
- Florida Plans to Hand Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library 🔥
- ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 🔥Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
- Exclusive: Nevada's acting US Attorney urged voter fraud probe to help Republicans, document shows 🔥Nevada's top federal prosecutor has asked the FBI to investigate debunked Republican claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, a probe she hopes will influence congressional races and ensnare Democrats, according to a government document seen by Reuters.
- Trump pressure tactics in Comey case ‘chilling’ – but they could backfire, experts say 🔥Former prosecutors condemn ‘takeover of the DoJ’ but say chance of success could be tainted by president’s comments ...
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 First Amendment (And A Court) Punch Back 🔥🔥🔥Tonight, we have a post that is longer than usual.
- 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.
- NEWS: Republicans Refuse to Swear in Adelita Grijalva Fearing Epstein Files Vote as Government Shutdown Nears 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 219. 9/30/25 🔥… Pete Hegseth gave his big speech today on the “Warrior Ethos” to hundreds of the most senior military commanders who were summoned to Quantico, VA from all over the world to hear it in person.
- September 30, 2025 Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...
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.
- 18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist† 🔥This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.
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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- Constitutional Structure and Election Law Since Bush v. Gore, scholarship on election law has centered on a theoretical debate between rights-based and structural theory approaches, and the appropriate ...
- 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.
- Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...
- Reasoning to Learn from Latent Thoughts 🔥ArXiv link for Reasoning to Learn from Latent Thoughts ...
- 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...
- Extract-0: A Specialized Language Model for Document Information Extraction This paper presents Extract-0, a 7-billion parameter language model specifically optimized for document information extraction that achieves performance exceeding models with parameter counts several orders of magnitude larger. Through a novel combination of synthetic data generation, supervised fine-tuning with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), and reinforcement learning via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), Extract-0 achieves a mean reward of 0.573 on a benchmark of 1,000 diverse document extraction tasks, outperforming GPT-4.1 (0.457), o3 (0.464), and GPT-4.1-2025 (0.459). The training methodology employs a memory-preserving synthetic data generation pipeline that produces 280,128 training examples from diverse document sources, followed by parameterefficient fine-tuning that modifies only 0.53% of model weights (40.4M out of 7.66B parameters). The reinforcement learning phase introduces a novel semantic similarity-based reward function that handles the inherent ambiguity in information extraction tasks. This research demonstrates that task-specific optimization can yield models that surpass general-purpose systems while requiring substantially fewer computational resource.
- Can Code Language Models Learn Clarification-Seeking Behaviors?† ArXiv link for Can Code Language Models Learn Clarification-Seeking Behaviors?
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)
- Domestic Enemy 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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