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.
- Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥xAI is aiming to win the tech arms race with its “Colossus” data centers, thrown up at lightning speed, but Memphis is divided over the massive power and water demands.
- Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America 🔥🔥🔥🔥But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
- Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread 🔥🔥🔥
- Judge Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive 🔥
- Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 🔥Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
- My approach will pay off eventually, says Kemi Badenoch 🔥The Conservative leader defends her leadership as the party's conference begins in Manchester ...
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.
- It's already time for a new SCOTUS term. Or, the summer that wasn't. 🔥🔥A look back, a look ahead. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥October 5, 2025 ...
- October 5, 2025 🔥On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 222. 🔥… Trump essentially admitted today that the shutdown is really about repealing Obamacare by choking off funding for it, which was in Project 2025: Q - “Are you open to extending the ACA subsidies?
- Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack† The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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.
- I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong 🔥🔥🔥🔥Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
- OpenAI's Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns 🔥In a video that went viral, a clip shows Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, raising copyright concerns.
- 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 ...
- The Westport Library Joins National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence with ‘AI & Us: A Civic Symposium,’ Presented by Verso University AI & Us is a community-centered symposium exploring the implications of artificial intelligence across legal, civic, creative, business, healthcare, and technological spheres. Designed for broad publi...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- The Executive Power Clause (This is Part 2 of a two-article series. The first installment is https://ssrn.com/abstract=3328945.)
- 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 ...
- 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 (
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.
- Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence 🔥🔥🔥Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
- 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 ...
- Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance We investigate the impact of politeness levels in prompts on the performance of large language models (LLMs). Polite language in human communications often garners more compliance and effectiveness, w...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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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