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.
- Judge Disqualifies Nevada’s Acting U.S. Attorney From Handling Cases 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing.
- UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE 🔥🔥Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’
- Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights 🔥People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
- Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage 🔥An initial round of nine schools, including Dartmouth, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, are being asked to sign a wide-ranging “compact.”
- Opinion | Mourn, or Else 🔥
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 Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response. 🔥🔥🔥This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.
- Sign in to Talking Feds Substack
- The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps ...
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning issued an order that allows Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve Board Governor for now. The court scheduled oral arguments for January on t...
- What The White House Seems To Be Hearing About Russian Power Plus: Does Trump Have Hurt Feelings?
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 Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus 🔥🔥🔥🔥The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.
- Submit a Claim 🔥🔥🔥
- 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.
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 ...
- 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 ...
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 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 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)
- ghost 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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