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.
- Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump’s Attack on Ontario’s Reagan Ad Helped Amplify Its Reach 🔥🔥In the global portfolio of political ads that changed history, a handful stand out.
- 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."
- Trump Hikes Tariffs on Canada By 10% Over Ontario Ad 🔥🔥The measure was in response to what the U.S. president called ‘misrepresentation’ of Ronald Reagan’s comments.
- What Happened to Ohio? 🔥The fraying of my family and our working-class hometown ...
- Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune 🔥
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 we say No Kings, we mean Freedom (video) 🔥🔥🔥My speech in Cincinnati for the No Kings rally of October 17th ...
- The Latest From The Ninth Circuit 🔥Last night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated, at least for now, Federal District Judge Karin Immergut’s first temporary restraining order, which prohibited the Trump administration from d...
- October 25, 2025 🔥Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.
- Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power *neighborhood in southeast Baltimore ...
- NEWS: Alarm Bells Go off as Trump Accepts Millions in Anonymous Donations From Friends to Pay Troops Alarm bells go off as Trump accepts millions in donations to pay troops, Trump says the Reagan ad made by Canada using his words was AI, 60 Minutes producer says he was told not to cover Trump ...
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.
- 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."
- A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?† 🔥
- 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.
- Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
- OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.
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.
- Making the Most of VAPs and Fellowships: A Guide for Law Schools and Aspiring Legal Academics 🔥🔥This Article is intended for both (1) Visiting Assistant Professors and Fellows (collectively VAPs) who plan to go on the tenure-track legal-academic market, 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 ...
- The Wages of Adversity Boosting: A Theory of Law, Inequality, and the Stories We Tell The ground-shaking enactment of President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is just the latest instantiation of an enduring puzzle: Why are Ameri ...
- Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Under Section 2(c) of the Charter: A Call for Action “A Call for Action” builds on the author’s previous work on s.2(c) for the Rouleau Commission (“Freedom of Assembly and Section 2(c) of the Charter<
- Trump's Court, Nixon's Constitution: Presidential Immunity And The Judicial Transformation Of American Government This Article looks in depth at the Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision in Trump v. United States, which, for the first time in American histo ...
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.
- AI and the Extended Workday: Productivity, Contracting Efficiency, and Distribution of Rents 🔥🔥🔥🔥This study examines how occupational AI exposure affects employment at the intensive margin, i.e., workday length. Using individual-level time diary data from 2 ...
- 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...
- Tracing the Traces: Latent Temporal Signals for Efficient and Accurate Reasoning Reasoning models improve their problem-solving ability through inference-time scaling, allocating more compute via longer token budgets. Identifying which reasoning traces are likely to succeed remain...
- 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 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)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 (@angryblacklady.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Kathleen Bush-Joseph (@kathleenbush.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Farbman (@danfarbman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Beau Baumann 🍏 (@beaubaumann.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.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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