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.
- Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño ...
- Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. 🔥The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.
- Kristi Noem Survived Many Crises. Then She Crossed a Trump Red Line. 🔥
- Column | How to war-proof your budget before regular gas hits $4 a gallon 🔥As the Iran conflict leads to rising gas prices, these tips can help you save money and maintain some budget predictability.
- Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
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.
- What Qualities Do You Want in a Leader? 🔥🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- NEWS: Iran Threatens Trump, Says he Will "Pay" as Trump Moves Closer to Deploying Troops and Denies USA Struck Elementary School 🔥🔥Good evening everyone, hope you had a restful Saturday afternoon.
- NEWS: White House Blocks Intel Report Warning of Elevated Terror Threats Due to War as Trump Escalates and Air Fare Set to Surge 🔥Good morning everyone.
- The Last Gatekeepers 🔥Why the Trump administration wants to neutralize state bar discipline.
- March 7, 2026 🔥At 8:50 yesterday morning, 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.
- Blowhard ChatGPT bot posed as lawyer, convinced woman to fire her real attorney — while citing phony ‘case law’: suit† 🔥🔥🔥The AI-powered chatbot urged Graciela Dela Torre, of Des Plaines, to reopen her already-settled disability case and file dozens of illegitimate motions against her employer, Nippon Life Insurance C…
- Grammarly is using our identities without permission† 🔥Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.
- OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying 🔥Whether it means to or not ...
- OpenAI sued for practicing law without a license† OpenAI has been accused of practicing law without a license in a lawsuit brought by Nippon Life Insurance Co. of America.
- When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind† We were promised AI regulation and a race to the top. Now, we’re arguing about killer robots.
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.
- The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025† 🔥🔥Traditional legal scholarship rankings rely almost exclusively on career-long publication metrics, a method that inherently favors decades-old articles and ofte ...
- The Equity Docket† The Supreme Court has two sides. On its ordinary docket, the Court answers questions of law after briefing and oral argument. On its extraordinary docket ...
- Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara: An Originalist Defense of Birthright Citizenship† For nearly all of the first 235 years under the Constitution, the citizenship of every child born in the United States to alien parents, with immaterial exce ...
- DEAR PRUDENCE: THE ATOMIC ORIGINS, DECARBONIZATION DEPLOYMENT, AND TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF A REGULATORY PRINCIPLE† This Article provides the first comprehensive account of the history and doctrine of imprudence disallowances, a utility regulation tool that has reemerged i ...
- Regulating Sports Prediction Markets† Prediction market companies such as Kalshi and Polymarket have recently burst onto the scene and begun selling contracts that allow buyers to predict the ...
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.
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Molt Dynamics: Emergent Social Phenomena in Autonomous AI Agent Populations† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Molt Dynamics: Emergent Social Phenomena in Autonomous AI Agent Populations ...
- Fundamentals of quantum Boltzmann machine learning with visible and hidden units 🔥One of the primary applications of classical Boltzmann machines is generative modeling, wherein the goal is to tune the parameters of a model distribution so that it closely approximates a target dist...
- Benchmarking Legal RAG: The Promise and Limits of AI Statutory Surveys ArXiv link for Benchmarking Legal RAG: The Promise and Limits of AI Statutory Surveys ...
- XAgen: An Explainability Tool for Identifying and Correcting Failures in Multi-Agent Workflows ArXiv link for XAgen: An Explainability Tool for Identifying and Correcting Failures in Multi-Agent Workflows ...
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)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maryam Jamshidi (@msjamshidi.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- National Security Counselors 🕵 (@nationalsecuritylaw.org) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.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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