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.
- In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President’s Policies Have Hit Hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say 🔥🔥
- Labour demands clarity on Tory plan to strip thousands of right to stay in UK 🔥🔥Anna Turley says legally settled people threatened by Katie Lam’s proposals deserve urgent clarification ...
- Trump’s Son Is Poised to Profit From Pentagon Drone Proposal 🔥
- ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 🔥Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code ...
- Food stamps: US government says it will stop paying for food aid next week - BBC News 🔥Food stamps will not be distributed from November due to the ongoing shutdown, it said.
- Trump raises tariffs on Canada by 10% over Reagan ad 🔥President Donald Trump had halted trade talks with Canada over a provincial government’s ad that has since been canceled.
- Exclusive | State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin’s Appetite for Peace 🔥The Central Intelligence Agency had a more positive assessment of the Russian leader’s willingness to talk.
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.
- The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later 🔥🔥🔥🔥"What a sick world." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Major Good News Updates!! Good morning, happy Sunday, and get ready for some good news!!
- The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps ...
- October 26, 2025 Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 236. … Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent preposterously claimed on ABC that he is suffering with farmers going under because of Trump’s tariffs because he is also a soybean farmer: “Martha, in case you don’...
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."
- 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.
- Large US law firm apologizes for AI errors in bankruptcy court filing Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was "profoundly embarrassed" after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI.
- ‘Very clear’: Labor rules out exemption for AI giants to take content for free The Albanese government has shot down a proposal from the Productivity Commission, which had tech company backing, that would exempt them from copyright laws.
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 ...
- We the People of the United States: The Source of the Constitution's Authority The Preamble is famous for its beauty and eloquence, but it is not just a rhetorical flourish at the beginning of the Constitution. It both establishes th ...
- 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.
- 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...
- Shifting 'AI Policy' Preprints and Citation Trends in the U.S., U.K and E.U., and South Korea (2015-2024) 🔥This study of literature focusing on 'AI Policy' over the past decade, found that citations of preprints, publications on platforms such as arXiv, have increased from five percent to forty percent across three major regions: the U.S., U.K. & E.U., and South Korea. We compare regional responses of preprint citations across the global disruptions of COVID-19 and the release of ChatGPT. We discuss driving factors and risks of preprint normalization, which follows the trend in computer science.
- 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 ...
- Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers
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)
- Mayor of Halloween Town (@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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