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.
- Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn 🔥🔥🔥A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule ...
- The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law 🔥
- Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator 🔥
- Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes 🔥Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.
- Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada 🔥
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.
- Normal Times in Dire Times 🔥🔥🔥🔥Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
- Five Questions with Doctors Peter Hotez and Michael Mann 🔥The War on Science Continues ...
- The risks of letting Trump become the military paymaster Trump will demand their loyalty in return ...
- October 24, 2025 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.
- A guide to what is happening in the challenges to Trump's National Guard deployment efforts† Expect significant rulings from the courts — including the Supreme Court — in the coming weeks. Also: The Supreme Court won't stop an eighth execution by nitrogen suffocation.
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 Loosened Suicide-Talk Rules Before Teen’s Death, Lawsuit Alleges† 🔥🔥🔥🔥An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement.
- A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible? 🔥🔥
- DHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User Data In First Known Warrant For ChatGPT Prompts† 🔥Filed by child exploitation investigators with the DHS, the warrant reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
- Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings† 🔥Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
- Public Figures Sign Petition Urging Ban On AI ‘Superintelligence’: Including Harry, Meghan, Steve Bannon And Richard Branson† 🔥The petition organized by the non-profit Future of Life Institute calls for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence until more safety measures are in place.
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.
- Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have† 🔥🔥🔥For some large and powerful industries, it has long been normal and even routine for businesses to sue their federal regulator. For other large and powerful ...
- 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 ...
- Jurisdiction Stripping as a Tool for Democratic Reform of the Supreme Court: Written Testimony for The Presidential Commission On The Supreme Court of the United States In this written testimony I will focus in depth on what I believe to be the most promising strategy for reducing the power of courts. That is for Congress to us ...
- Separation of Parties, Not Powers† American political institutions were founded upon the Madisonian assumption of vigorous, self-sustaining political competition between the legislative and exec ...
- Congress's Article III Power and the Process of Constitutional Change Text in Article III of the U.S. Constitution appears to give to Congress authority to make incursions into judicial supremacy, by restricting (or, less neutrall ...
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.
- A Homological Proof of $\mathbf{P} \neq \mathbf{NP}$: Computational Topology via Categorical Framework† 🔥🔥🔥This paper establishes the separation of complexity classes $\mathbf{P}$ and $\mathbf{NP}$ through a novel homological algebraic approach grounded in category theory. We construct the computational ca...
- LoRA vs Full Fine-tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence† ArXiv link for LoRA vs Full Fine-tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence ...
- Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible Transformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the in...
- The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training ArXiv link for The Coverage Principle: How Pre-Training Enables Post-Training ...
- QoQ-Med: Building Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models with Domain-Aware GRPO Training ArXiv link for QoQ-Med: Building Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models with Domain-Aware GRPO Training ...
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)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (promoted)
- Beau Baumann 🍏 (@beaubaumann.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Dan Farbman (@danfarbman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bush-Joseph (@kathleenbush.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 (@angryblacklady.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Tormented🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Schwartz (@jswatz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.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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