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.
- Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
- Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.
- Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act. 🔥
- Wall Street Grapples With New Risk: A European Buyers’ Strike 🔥US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the elites gathered in Davos that the Trump administration believes globalization is “a failed policy” that left America behind. A day later, his boss, Presid...
- Yes, It’s Fascism 🔥Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
- Are Federal Officials Immune From State Prosecution? 🔥Contrary to recent assertions, federal officers do not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecutions brought by states.
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.
- Lies and Lawlessness 🔥🔥🔥The Camps, the Executions, and the Future ...
- Major Minnesota Update: The Trump Narrative Falls Apart as Even Republicans Question It 🔥We have a major development this afternoon.
- Major Update: Trump Administration Begins to Throw Kristi Noem Under the Bus as Narrative Completely Falls Apart 🔥Good evening.
- Another Killing on ICE 🔥The right wing propaganda machine can’t spin the killing of Alex Pretti ...
- January 25, 2026 As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.
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.
- Supreme Court could greenlight geofence warrants 🔥🔥A new case may legalize suspicionless mass surveillance of journalists and whistleblowers ...
- Here’s what Richmond police Chief Rick Edwards asked ChatGPT about ICE, snowstorms 🔥Documents show Edwards used the chatbot to find information about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, learn about state law on recovery homes and identify potential issues with his department’s ...
- Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech | TechCrunch Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup's India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.
- Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...
- a man with a beard holds his hands to his forehead ALT: a man with a beard holds his hands to his forehead ...
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.
- Trademarks Without Confusion: Can Brand Rights Rescue Trademark Law? 🔥 We have two very different trademark systems in this country. The traditional one protects consumers against be ...
- Which Patent Case Matters Most?† 🔥We study how often Supreme Court patent cases are cited in law review articles, and compare our findings to our prior work that discussed how often the same ...
- Another Heller Conundrum: Is it a Fourth Amendment 'Exigent Circumstance' to Keep a Legal Firearm in Your Home? In Heller and McDonald, the Supreme Court recognized an individual’s constitutional right to possess a firearm in his home. This leads to an interesting questio ...
- Enterprise Justice: Tyler Technologies and the Privatizing Court The modern courthouse is increasingly digital, and the digital courthouse increasingly—and, now, predominantly—runs on software built by a single compa ...
- The Law of Constitutional Capture Constitutional capture is commonplace in the world today. A government that was built to be for the common good, the public interest, is rebuilt from the 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.
- Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware 🔥🔥🔥Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI tr...
- Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs† ArXiv link for Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs ...
- Securing LLM-as-a-Service for Small Businesses: An Industry Case Study of a Distributed Chatbot Deployment Platform† ArXiv link for Securing LLM-as-a-Service for Small Businesses: An Industry Case Study of a Distributed Chatbot Deployment Platform ...
- What Patients Really Ask: Exploring the Effect of False Assumptions in Patient Information Seeking† ArXiv link for What Patients Really Ask: Exploring the Effect of False Assumptions in Patient Information Seeking ...
- Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the German Software Engineering Industry: An Empirical Study Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have seen rapid adoption among software developers. While adoption rates in the industry are rising, the underlying factors influencing the effective use of these tools, including the depth of interaction, organizational constraints, and experience-r…
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)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- This Hat Celebrates Alex Pretti (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.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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