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.
- Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline 🔥🔥🔥People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
- The FBI’s Treatment of Comey Takes a Reality TV Turn 🔥🔥The made-for-TV Trump administration appears to be gearing up to air its latest episode.
- C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself 🔥
- NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses 🔥Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK ...
- Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story 🔥
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.
- Portland And Beyond 🔥🔥🔥This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥October 5, 2025 ...
- October 6, 2025 🔥If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 223. 10/6/25 🔥… Trump said he “will have to take a look at” a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell after the US Supreme Court rejected her appeal earlier today: Q - The supreme court rejected the appeal by Maxwell.
- Pair of lawsuits challenging Trump's targeting of Chicago get first hearings The lawsuits challenge the Trump administration's military deployment efforts and harsh treatment of protesters and journalists. More hearings are set for later this week.
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.
- The incredible arrogance of OpenAI 🔥🔥🔥🔥With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win ...
- 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.
- Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report 🔥Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused of years of sexual abuse by sister in lawsuit 🔥The federal civil lawsuit filed in St. Louis by Ann Altman says the abuse began when she was a toddler and lasted for nine years. Sam Altman denies the allegations.
- 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.
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.
- Razing the Patent Bar 🔥🔥Innovation is vital to economic prosperity, and lawmakers consequently strive to craft patent laws that efficiently promote the discovery and commercialization ...
- Fully-automated free speech-killing robots are incompatible with European and UK fundamental rights In the UK, the communications services regulator, Ofcom, has issued for consultation proposed guidance to user-to-user (U2U) platforms and search engines ...
- The Executive Power Clause† (This is Part 2 of a two-article series. The first installment is https://ssrn.com/abstract=3328945.)
- The Role of "Light Plagiarism" in Legal Writing, from a Recent Practitioner's Perspective Because practitioners are pressured to complete their tasks as quickly and efficiently as possible, lawyers regularly use documents previously drafted by other ...
- Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI This is a short response to Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's essay "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI," which will be published in the Univer ...
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...
- Do AI Models Perform Human-like Abstract Reasoning Across Modalities? 🔥OpenAI's o3-preview reasoning model exceeded human accuracy on the ARC-AGI benchmark, but does that mean state-of-the-art models recognize and reason with the abstractions that the task creators inten...
- Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning One of the most striking features of Large Language Models (LLM) is their ability to learn in context. Namely at inference time an LLM is able to learn new patterns without any additional weight updat...
- 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...
- OpenTSLM: Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Medical Text- and Time-Series Data LLMs have emerged as powerful tools for interpreting multimodal data. In medicine, they hold particular promise for synthesizing large volumes of clinical information into actionable insights and…
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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