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.
- Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- US deal must punish Russia war crimes, says Ukraine’s Nobel peace prize winner 🔥Oleksandra Matviichuk warns any amnesty could encourage authoritarian leaders to attack their neighbours ...
- Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens 🔥
- Disappeared to a Foreign Prison The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
- In Pursuit of a ‘Warrior Ethos,’ Hegseth Targets Military’s Top Lawyers
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.
- A Dishonorable Strike 🔥🔥🔥Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder ...
- Must Pete Hegseth Be Investigated Now? 🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come 🔥“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
- What If Trump Wants Goliath to Win? 🔥A guest essay on Ukraine from Nataliya Gumenyuk ...
- The Week Ahead 🔥November 30, 2025 ...
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.
- Hundreds of Chicago residents sign petition to pause robot delivery pilot program over safety concerns† 🔥🔥🔥There is a growing call for the City Council to hold a public hearing on the pilot program and publish accessibility data ...
- Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation† 🔥🔥Some are battling state AI laws and threatening to punish candidates who oppose rapid deployment of the technology.
- The Trump Administration’s Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided† 🔥Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial ...
- From doing science to saving science Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change, political leaders are increasingly sacrificing democracy as well as science on the altar of populism and authoritar...
- a woman is sitting in a crowd of people with her mouth open and the words `` i hate it ! '' ALT: a woman is sitting in a crowd of people with her mouth open and the words `` i hate it ! ''
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.
- Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths† 🔥Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths. Foss ...
- International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law† How are scholars of law, especially international law, struggling to diagnose and inhabit the present? And how do those various efforts speak to one an ...
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.
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥
- Large Language Models Require Curated Context for Reliable Political Fact-Checking -- Even with Reasoning and Web Search† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) have raised hopes for automated end-to-end fact-checking, but prior studies report mixed results. As mainstream chatbots increasingly ship with reasoning capabilities and ...
- Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment Reveals Trade-offs in Safety, Inclusivity, and Model Behavior† ArXiv link for Operationalizing Pluralistic Values in Large Language Model Alignment Reveals Trade-offs in Safety, Inclusivity, and Model Behavior ...
- Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence We present Butter-Bench, a benchmark evaluating large language model (LLM) controlled robots for practical intelligence, defined as the ability to navigate the messiness of the physical world. Current state-of-the-art robotic systems use a hierarchical architecture with LLMs in charge of high-level reasoning, and a Vision Language Action (VLA) model for low-level control. Butter-Bench evaluates the LLM part in isolation from the VLA. Although LLMs have repeatedly surpassed humans in evaluations requiring analytical intelligence, we find humans still outperform LLMs on Butter-Bench. The best LLMs score 40% on Butter-Bench, while the mean human score is 95%. LLMs struggled the most with multi-step spatial planning and social understanding. We also evaluate LLMs that are fine-tuned for embodied reasoning and conclude that this training does not improve their score on Butter-Bench.
- HERMES: Towards Efficient and Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs† Informal mathematics has been central to modern large language model (LLM) reasoning, offering flexibility and enabling efficient construction of arguments. However, purely informal reasoning is prone...
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)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenn Burrill (@jennburrill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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