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.
- Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
- A D.C. task force shot at a driver. It’s not in the police report. 🔥🔥🔥🔥Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
- 'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties 🔥🔥🔥Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
- After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy 🔥🔥
- Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points 🔥🔥The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
- OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week 🔥OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.
- Americans Are Getting a Look at Next Year’s ACA Premiums and Many Don’t Like It 🔥Many Affordable Care Act enrollees could pay hundreds of dollars more if they stick with their health plans.
- US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats 🔥
- U.S. Military Kills 14 More People Accused of Smuggling Drugs on Boats 🔥
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.
- Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology 🔥🔥🔥“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
- There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders 🔥Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
- Live with Heather Cox Richardson and Me 🔥A recording of our live video ...
- Ohio....Time To Unify 🔥Let's Not Squander Our Best Opportunity in Decades ...
- The $230 Million Theft in Broad Daylight Which is more audacious? The Louvre jewels heist or Trump’s taxpayer swindle ...
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.
- My Book Was Stolen by an AI Company. Why Does Suing Them Feel Wrong? | The Walrus 🔥🔥🔥🔥The courtroom isn’t where this fight belongs—each lawsuit legitimizes the very system artists oppose ...
- AI of a Thousand Faces† 🔥🔥What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
- Here’s What Trump’s Ballroom Donors Want - The American Prospect 🔥The price tag on Donald Trump’s garish White House ballroom, now up to $350 million, keeps increasing. That’s because the cost of construction isn’t nearly as important as having an inventory of donations available for corporate America to pony up.
- Senator warns US judges on AI misuse as courts try to adapt 🔥Two federal judges last week admitted to releasing rulings that contained errors generated by artificial intelligence, underscoring a lack of uniform, permanent AI guidelines for U.S. courts as the technology spreads through the legal profession.
- Grok Thinks This Border Patrol Chief Who Looks Like a Nazi Is Cindy Sherman 🔥AI chatbots are terrible fact-checkers.
- ‘Clinical-grade AI’: a new buzzy AI word that means absolutely nothing 🔥Chatbot mental health companies are getting into clinical cosplay.
- Worried About AI Monopoly? Embrace Copyright’s Limits 🔥Copyright’s limits play essential antimonopoly functions. Undermining them in the context of AI is likely to strengthen Big Tech.
- OpenAI sued for trademark infringement over Sora's 'Cameo' feature 🔥The maker of celebrity video platform Cameo sued OpenAI in a California federal court on Tuesday, arguing that the new "Cameo" feature of OpenAI's Sora video generation app violates its trademark rights.
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.
- Hitler's Willing Law Professors 🔥While legal scholars did not, by and large, participate directly in the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis, they facilitated those by conferring a veneer of legali ...
- 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 ...
- An Autopsy of the Appellate Body and the Rule of Law Once the “crown jewel” of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Appellate Body wielded compulsory jurisdiction over more countries and more agreement ...
- Pay to Plead: Finding Unfairness and Abusive Practices in California Debt Collection Cases In this Article, we report on one of the largest in-depth studies of debt collection lawsuits ever attempted. We collect, normalize, and analyze a data s ...
- Fear And Free Speech Speakers who fear the prospect of the government’s punishment often express themselves less—or express themselves differently—than they would if they were not f ...
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.
- Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science 🔥🔥🔥🔥While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...
- Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles† 🔥🔥Despite a potential plateau in ML advancement, the societal impact of large language models lies not in approaching superintelligence but in generating text surfaces indistinguishable from human writi...
- AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden†
- From the Brussels Effect to the Mar-a-Lago Effect? : AI Governance in the UK† The UK has had a chequered and difficult history in determining its style of AI governance. Having historically seen itself in general regulatory terms ...
- Scaling Low-Resource MT via Synthetic Data Generation with LLMs We investigate the potential of LLM-generated synthetic data for improving low-resource Machine Translation (MT). Focusing on seven diverse target languages, we construct a document-level synthetic co...
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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