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.
- Journalists at 3 Alaska Newspapers Quit Over Charlie Kirk Story 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism from a Republican state lawmaker.
- 2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges. 🔥🔥
- The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities 🔥🔥
- The Situation: Murder She Wrote 🔥There's a word for what they're doing.
- Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore. 🔥
- The climate movement’s biggest weakness 🔥What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.
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.
- Project 2025: Taking on the Constitution 🔥🔥Another Saturday night in America.
- October 4, 2025 🔥Today was unseasonably warm and I spent the day on the water.
- Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon 🔥"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.
- Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S. 🔥The majority gave virtually no reasoning. The Democratic appointees objected, but only Justice Jackson wrote: "[Y]et another grave misuse of our emergency docket."
- Inside the Tony Blair Institute A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?
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.
- The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ANT Homepage | ANT 🔥🔥🔥
- OpenAI appears to be walking back its Sora copyright policy 🔥🔥OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will give rightsholders more control over the use of their characters.
- The Albanian parliament erupted in fury as Tony Blair's ally Edi Rama installed an 'AI chatbot' as a government minister. Last year the Albanian prime minister said he owed his position to the former... 🔥TikTok video by GB News ...
- Elon Musk calls for elimination of civil rights group 🔥There’s a popular saying about a pot and a kettle, but it doesn’t seem like Elon Musk has heard it.� The Tesla CEO took to his social media kingdom, X, on Thursday to smear the Southern Poverty ...
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.
- 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 ...
- How Design Patent Law Lost Its Shape† 🔥Under U.S. law, patents are available for “any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.” Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (
- The Constitutional Right to Organize† This paper explores the role of a worker’s right to organize into a union in constitutional law and constitutional politics. This right has been contested since ...
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.
- Networked Information Aggregation via Machine Learning 🔥🔥🔥We study a distributed learning problem in which learning agents are embedded in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). There is a fixed and arbitrary distribution over feature/label pairs, and each agent or...
- Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills† 🔥ArXiv link for Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills ...
- Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention† ArXiv link for Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention ...
- RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems† ArXiv link for RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems ...
- Achieving More Human Brain-Like Vision via Human EEG Representational Alignment ArXiv link for Achieving More Human Brain-Like Vision via Human EEG Representational Alignment ...
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)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tormented🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Simon Cox (@simonfrcox.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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