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.
- Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Judge Signals She Is Likely to Order Abrego Garcia’s Release Soon 🔥
- Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court 🔥
- Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials 🔥
- A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
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.
- When they Bukele the Courts 🔥🔥🔥When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was first deported to El Salvador and his lawyers went to court, arguing an immigration judge had previously prohibited it, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff,...
- BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre. 🔥The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.
- The trials of litigating against Trump As Trump troop deployments are blocked in Chicago, Trump appellate appointees push back on the order blocking deployments in Portland. And, another Trump target indicted.
- Russia and the rise of the radical right Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
- Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.
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 ...
- California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as ...
- OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door OpenAI reportedly wanted to find out if the advocates received funding from Elon Musk.
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 ...
- A Switch In Strata’ll Save Your Data: TikTok Inc. v. Garland and the Future Of U.S. Data Protection Regulation The U.S. Supreme Court's 2025 case of TikTok Inc. v. Garland looked to be a content-focused speech showdown. TikTok and its users' First Amendment arguments wou ...
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 2 OLMo 2 Furious† ArXiv link for 2 OLMo 2 Furious ...
- The Philosophic Turn for AI Agents: Replacing centralized digital rhetoric with decentralized truth-seeking In the face of rapidly advancing AI technology, individuals will increasingly rely on AI agents to navigate life's growing complexities, raising critical concerns about maintaining both human agency a...
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)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Schwartz (@jswatz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social)
- Tormented🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.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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