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.
- After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told 🔥
- Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion 🔥
- Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era 🔥In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support ...
- California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech ...
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.
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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.
- Submit a Claim† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- 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.
- 18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It† 🔥Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
- Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag 🔥To begin, for those of you who do not follow such things with intense interest, a little context about the “AI” company Anthropic being sued for stealing authors’ works and reachi…
- Podcast: Landlords Demand Your Workplace Logins to Scrape Paystubs How companies working for landlords are scraping data inside corporate environments; lawyers explain why they used AI (after getting caught); and all the Ruby drama.
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.
- By Birth Alone: The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States 🔥🔥🔥The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entrenched birthright citizenship into the Constitution. Building on a recent revisionist scholarly literatur ...
- 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 ...
- Lyons, Remedies, and the Fourth Amendment in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo In Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the Supreme Court stayed a lower court injunction as part of its increasingly heavy emergency shadow docket. The injunction p ...
- Enforced Disappearance as a Crime Under International Law: A Neglected Origin in the Laws of War Enforced disappearance as a crime under international law has a long and neglected history. In this Note I argue that the criminal prohibition of disappearance ...
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 ...
- Exploring Opportunities to Support Novice Visual Artists' Inspiration and Ideation with Generative AI ArXiv link for Exploring Opportunities to Support Novice Visual Artists' Inspiration and Ideation with Generative AI ...
- Material Synthesis 2025 (MatSyn25) Dataset for 2D Materials Two-dimensional (2D) materials have shown broad application prospects in fields such as energy, environment, and aerospace owing to their unique electrical, mechanical, thermal and other properties. W...
- 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...
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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