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.
- Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
- Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk 🔥🔥🔥xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
- Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked 🔥🔥Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’
- Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness 🔥
- Trump nominee at U.S. export bank withdraws amid scrutiny of Russia ties 🔥Bryce McFerran is a senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest oligarchs and is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin.
- Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers 🔥“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
- Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations 🔥Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
- White House fires entire commission that reviews designs for federal buildings 🔥The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.
- U.S. to withdraw some troops from NATO's eastern flank, Romania says 🔥Romania and NATO allies were notified of U.S. plans to cut the number of troops stationed on Europe's eastern flank including soldiers who were to be stationed at Romania's Mihail Kogalniceanu air base, Romania's defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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.
- October 29, 2025 🔥🔥Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...
- SCOTUS holds off ruling on Trump's Nat'l Guard request, leaving troops blocked from Illinois for now 🔥🔥Court orders briefing about a part of the law the Trump admin is using to federalize National Guard troops. Also in Illinois: Protesters indicted and an attempt to protect Bovino.
- BREAKING: Pentagon Directs All 50 States to Form National Guard Rapid-Response Units to Target 'Civil Unrest' 🔥Pentagon directs states to form rapid response units to target protests, DHS uses fake videos as basis for sending in military, Democrats warn of Trump declaring national emergency over elections ...
- NEWS: Donald Trump Admits He Cannot Run for Third Term as Court Losses Pile Up 🔥Donald Trump admits he cannot run for a third term, Trump loses in the 9th Circuit and Central District of California, mass protests meet Trump as he arrives in South Korea, and much more ...
- Full Ninth Circuit keeps Trump's Oregon National Guard efforts blocked for now, tossing order that sided with Trump The appeals court voted to vacate last week's 2-1 order, which had sought to allow Trump to send troops to Portland during litigation.
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.
- How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.
- Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead 🔥🔥A New York judge dismissed an attempt by OpenAI to throw out a class action lawsuit that consolidates suits from a number of authors charging the company with copyright infringement.
- Federal judges using AI filed court orders with false quotes, fake names The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee blasted the two federal judges for the erroneous filings and called for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.
- Grok Thinks This Border Patrol Chief Who Looks Like a Nazi Is Cindy Sherman† AI chatbots are terrible fact-checkers.
- 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 ...
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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers The use of copyrighted books for training AI models has led to numerous lawsuits from authors concerned about AI's ability to generate derivative content. Yet i ...
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...
- Lost in Translation: Policymakers are not really listening to Citizen Concerns about AI 🔥The worlds people have strong opinions about artificial intelligence (AI), and they want policymakers to listen. Governments are inviting public comment on AI, but as they translate input into policy,...
- PaperAsk: A Benchmark for Reliability Evaluation of LLMs in Paper Search and Reading Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as research assistants, yet their reliability in scholarly tasks remains under-evaluated. In this work, we introduce PaperAsk, a benchmark that systemat...
- 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)
- 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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