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.
- ‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache 🔥🔥🔥🔥Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap ...
- Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ 🔥🔥🔥Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels ...
- Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover 🔥🔥Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
- How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise 🔥🔥Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
- Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year 🔥Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds ...
- The Situation: James Comey Is Just Asking Questions 🔥So many motions; so many options for dismissal.
- Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households 🔥New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation ...
- Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules 🔥Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...
- Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report 🔥At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.
- Three Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest 🔥Trio argued orange powder protest day before 2024 solstice was justified because of focus on climate emergency ...
- Democrats Condemn Trump Administration for Secrecy on Boat Strikes 🔥
- England's most deprived areas named - with Jaywick topping list 🔥Jaywick, a seaside town in Essex, has been named the most deprived area for a fourth time in a row.
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 31, 2025 🔥🔥Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
- BREAKING: Judge Orders Trump Administration to Use Contingency Funds to Cover SNAP 🔥Stunning rulings from multiple judges this afternoon.
- Five Questions with Jon Favreau 🔥Our guest for Five Questions tonight is Jon Favreau, President Obama’s chief speechwriter from 2005-2013, cofounder of Crooked Media (newly on Substack, find them here), cohost, along with fellow Obam...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 240. 10/31/25 🔥… Mike Johnson started off his daily shutdown press conference this morning with another blatant lie: “President Trump has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that if there is any way to fund these prog...
- Trump admin ordered to distribute SNAP benefits, using contingency fund 🔥A pair of rulings both found the effort to suspend SNAP payments is likely illegal, with one judge issuing a TRO on Friday. Also: Appeals court rejects court's Bovino check-in order.
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.
- ‘Progressive’ Tech Group Asks Trump to Block AI Copyright Cases - The American Prospect 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Chamber of Progress’s campaign to promote fair use, which they have created a campaign around called “Generate and Create,” comes as at least three of the nonprofit organization’s past or current ...
- Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Center of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Personal Use’ 🔥🔥In a motion to dismiss filed earlier this week, Meta denied claims that employees had downloaded pornography from Strike 3 Holdings to train its artificial intelligence models.
- After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users 🔥🔥AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns.
- Character.AI Age Limit Sparks Doubt It Will Solve Chatbot Issues 🔥Character.AI’s announcement that it will ban users under 18 from conversing with chatbots is generating questions about the company’s planned age verification process and potentially broader chatbot h...
- Delaware top lawyer warns of legal action if OpenAI fails to act in public interest 🔥Sam Altman’s concessions to win approval from US officials expose his company to litigation and non-profit oversight ...
- Universal Music and AI song tool Udio settle lawsuit and partner on new platform, sparking backlash 🔥Universal Music Group and AI platform Udio have settled a copyright lawsuit and will collaborate on a new music creation and streaming platform.
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.
- Political Fair Use 🔥🔥During election season, politicians and political campaigns often use pop culture or iconic works, such as viral memes or popular songs, to help convey their po ...
- 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 ...
- Medication Abortion Exceptionalism† 🔥Though state laws dominate the abortion debate, there is a federal abortion policy that significantly curtails access to early abortion in all fifty states. The ...
- 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 ...
- A New Satanic Panic A broad backlash to LGBTQ visibility and equality has emerged in recent years. Its conservative proponents have asserted that queer people are Satanic, calle ...
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.
- We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research† 🔥🔥🔥We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu ...
- User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies† 🔥Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality training data as they race to improve m...
- Sequences of Logits Reveal the Low Rank Structure of Language Models ArXiv link for Sequences of Logits Reveal the Low Rank Structure of Language Models ...
- What Work is AI Actually Doing? Uncovering the Drivers of Generative AI Adoption ArXiv link for What Work is AI Actually Doing? Uncovering the Drivers of Generative AI Adoption ...
- Task Completion Agents are Not Ideal Collaborators ArXiv link for Task Completion Agents are Not Ideal Collaborators ...
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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