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.
- Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.
- Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown 🔥🔥🔥White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.
- M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment 🔥🔥
- Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 🔥Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
- Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia 🔥The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime ...
- You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned 🔥Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists ...
- We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins 🔥With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins ...
- Next Up: Letitia James 🔥It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.
- Sir Sadiq Khan calls for pause on new immigration rules 🔥The mayor of London said the changes had "moved the goalposts".
- The ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat (Published 2024) 🔥
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.
- Top Signs from No Kings Protests 🔥🔥So many great ones to choose from, but here are my top pics of signs/photos from yesterday’s No Kings protests.
- Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video) 🔥🔥Cause for concern ...
- England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet 🔥The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 226. 10/10/25 🔥… Pete Hegseth announced that the Qatari Air Force will now have a base in Idaho and their military fighter pilots will be training over the US: “I’m also proud that today we’re signing a letter of ac...
- Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact" 🔥The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...
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.
- 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.
- It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde 🔥🔥His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde ...
- The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant 🔥Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/10/2025 · 29m ...
- Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me. 🔥Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.
- US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.
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 ...
- The Chadha Presidency Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the answer to th ...
- The Constitution of Turbulence When the left-wing indigenous candidate Evo Morales was elected as President of Bolivia in 2006, the movement he led was faced ...
- Retaliation by Raised Eyebrow The FCC’s recent investigations of news media companies represent a novel and problematic evolution of its informal regulatory practices, which scholar ...
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.
- Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks 🔥🔥🔥Many evaluations of large language models (LLMs) in text annotation focus primarily on the correctness of the output, typically comparing model-generated labels to human-annotated ``ground truth'' usi...
- The SPACE of AI: Real-World Lessons on AI's Impact on Developers 🔥As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly embedded in software development workflows, questions persist about their true impact on developer productivity and experience. This paper pre...
- Artificially intelligent agents in the social and behavioral sciences: A history and outlook We review the historical development and current trends of artificially intelligent agents (agentic AI) in the social and behavioral sciences: from the first programmable computers, and social…
- 2 OLMo 2 Furious ArXiv link for 2 OLMo 2 Furious ...
- IASC: Interactive Agentic System for ConLangs We present a system that uses LLMs as a tool in the development of Constructed Languages. The system is modular in that one first creates a target phonology for the language using an agentic approach ...
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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