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.
- The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.
- Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration 🔥🔥🔥
- US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport 🔥🔥Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled ...
- Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize 🔥US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says ...
- Live Updates: N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James Indicted After Trump’s Pressure Campaign 🔥
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.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 225. 10/9/25 🔥🔥… Trump’s former personal attorney and newly installed US Attorney Lindsey Halligan complied with his repeated demands to indict NY AG Letitia James today.
- A good day for Democrats 🔥🔥I actually think Dems are winning the shutdown ...
- October 9, 2025 🔥🔥Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.
- Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann) 🔥Listen to our dissection of the government stance on the Comey arraignment. And a discussion of Pam Bondi’s “performance” (I won’t say testimony) before Congress. Thanks Jen for the discussion.
- NEWS: RFK Jr. Makes Unverified Claim Linking Autism to Early Circumcisions 🔥RFK Jr. makes unverified claim linking autism to early circumcisions, Trump says he will only cut "Democrat programs," Norway braces for Trump to not get Nobel Prize tomorrow, and more ...
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 wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama† 🔥🔥🔥🔥It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
- People are using ChatGPT as a lawyer in court. Some are winning. 🔥From pickleball disputes to eviction cases, litigants are using ChatGPT to fight their court battles — and they’re starting to win.
- Launching the Agentic MSA — free, open, and designed for AI builders†
- People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails† OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...
- Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms† OpenAI, Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential lawsuits.
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.
- Is Originalism Bullshit? 🔥🔥It’s finally time to answer the big question. This Article draws on the surprisingly robust literature examining the definition, essence, and significance of bu ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment 🔥🔥Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- Rule or Reason? The Role of Balancing in Antitrust Law† Antitrust law has two basic ways of analyzing conduct alleged to be anticompetitive. Some conduct is viewed as so inherently pernicious that it is deemed i ...
- Nix v. Hedden† In the study of American statutory interpretation, Nix v. Hedden (1893) exemplifies the primacy of ordinary meaning. The Court famously held that, in a tariff a ...
- The Appellate Void† What would it actually look like for the executive branch to defy a court order? The standard picture involves a dramatic confrontation between the President an ...
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.
- Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) is a novel approach using two small neural networks recursing at different frequencies. This biologically inspired method beats Large Language models (LLMs) on hard ...
- Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science† 🔥We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We offer a counter cla...
- From $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ to $f(g(x))$: LLMs Learn New Skills in RL by Composing Old Ones† 🔥Does RL teach LLMs genuinely new skills, or does it merely activate existing ones? This question lies at the core of ongoing debates about the role of RL in LLM post-training. On one side, strong empi...
- Evolution Strategies at Scale: LLM Fine-Tuning Beyond Reinforcement Learning 🔥Fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for down-stream tasks is a critical step in the AI deployment pipeline. Reinforcement learning (RL) is arguably the most prominent fine-tuning meth...
- Internal World Models as Imagination Networks in Cognitive Agents 🔥What is the computational objective of imagination? While classical interpretations suggest imagination is useful for maximizing rewards, recent findings challenge this view. In this study, we propose...
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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