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.
- Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman ...
- U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself 🔥
- Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third 🔥Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April ...
- Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency 🔥
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Immigration Operation Starts in New Orleans 🔥
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.
- Bulletproof No More 🔥🔥🔥🔥Pete Hegseth: “I watched that first strike live.
- "Dishonorable and Inhumane." 🔥These are the precise words the DOD Law of War Manual uses to describe attacking those who are shipwrecked.
- NEWS: Republican Infighting Explodes as Senior GOP Lawmaker Warns Mike Johnson Lacks the Support to Stay Speaker 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Major Mid-Day News Update Major Jeffrey Epstein update as thousands of files will be released this week. Hegseth could face ouster as an inspector general finds he put troops in danger. A major mid-day update.
- December 3, 2025 Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.
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.
- Big Tech's AI Power-Grab† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Robert Reich ...
- The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 1. Adam Raine’s Suicide.† 🔥OpenAI now faces scrutiny from multiple lawsuits alleging its software responded inappropriately resulting in deaths by self-harm. In one case, a suit alleges a minor killed themselves directly as …
- AI Chatbot Companies Should Protect Your Conversations From Bulk† AI companies have a responsibility to their users to make sure the warrant requirement is strictly followed, to resist unlawful bulk surveillance requests, and to be transparent with their users ...
- OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets† OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.
- Jarrus et al v. Governor of Michigan et al, No. 4:2025cv11168 - Document 176 (E.D. Mich. 2025) Jarrus et al v. Governor of Michigan et al, No. 4:2025cv11168 - Document 176 (E.D. Mich. 2025) case opinion from the Eastern District of Michigan U.S. Federal District Court ...
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.
- Beyond the Brick-and-Mortar Paradigm: The Legal and Procedural Foundations of Schedule A Litigation in Combating Online Counterfeiting as Distinct from Traditional Trademark Enforcement 🔥🔥This Article analyzes the emergence and evolution of Schedule A litigation as a procedural mechanism for combating online trademark counterfeiting. In respon ...
- Grading Machines: Can AI Exam-Grading Replace Law Professors? 🔥 In the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant technical advances, such that legal-advocacy organizations are increasin ...
- Google Search and Antitrust's Remedial Goals† A successful antitrust remedy should undo the effects of any antitrust violation that has served to increase prices, reduce output, or restrain innovation. The ...
- What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court† Do judgment-aggregation paradoxes prompt social scientists to posit irreducible “group agents”? We test this claim using the U.S. Supreme Court’s exper ...
- Our Progressively Brutal Constitution: A Legal Expressivist Account of the Excessive Force Doctrine The Constitution forbids some forms of physical violence. However, the scope of its protection depends on the legal status of the person subjected to the violen ...
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.
- Introducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not Outcomes† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org...
- TALES: Text Adventure Learning Environment Suite† 🔥🔥Reasoning is an essential skill to enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with the world. As tasks become more complex, they demand increasingly sophisticated and diverse reasoning capabiliti...
- Pushing Tensor Accelerators Beyond MatMul in a User-Schedulable Language 🔥Tensor accelerators now represent a growing share of compute resources in modern CPUs and GPUs. However, they are hard to program, leading developers to use vendor-provided kernel libraries that suppo...
- Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models† 🔥ArXiv link for Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models ...
- Epistemic Fragility in Large Language Models: Prompt Framing Systematically Modulates Misinformation Correction As large language models (LLMs) rapidly displace traditional expertise, their capacity to correct misinformation has become a core concern. We investigate the idea that prompt framing systematically m...
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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