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.
- Two US soldiers and interpreter killed by Islamic State gunman in Syria, US military says 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Pentagon said three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the gunman was ...
- Police search for suspects after shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island – latest updates 🔥🔥🔥🔥Suspect or suspects at large as Ivy League university tells students to take shelter during second day of final exams ...
- ‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts† 🔥🔥As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populists ...
- The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed 🔥🔥Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation ...
- Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds 🔥The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
- Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit 🔥The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their investigat...
- Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke 🔥Mary Poppins star feared death after apparently falling asleep on his surfboard but friendly sea creatures pushed him to shore ...
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.
- December 13, 2025 🔥🔥We haven’t taken a night off in ages, and I’ll bet you’re as tired as I am.
- Major Breaking News Update: A Horrific Night in America 🔥🔥2 dead, 8 injured in horrific mass shooting at Brown University as mass outrage over Trump putting out misinformation over the suspect. A horrific night in America.
- Do You Want to Live to 100? 🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- The Trump Russian Oil Sanctions Con Is Collapsing 🔥And Why It Matters ...
- NEWS: Republicans Will Let ACA Subsidies Lapse as Party Infighting Deepens and Speaker Johnson’s Hold on the House Erodes 🔥Good morning everyone.
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.
- Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
- Why Trump’s AI EO Will be DOA in Court | TechPolicy.Press 🔥Policymakers should not allow the happy-talk about innovation blind them to the ways in which AI companies may harm consumers, Olivier Sylvain writes.
- Sam Altman Got What He Wanted For now ...
- Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action ...
- Trump’s executive order limits state regulations of artificial intelligence President Trump has signed an executive order that would block states from enforcing laws they pass to regulate A.I., or artificial intelligence.The directive marks a big win for tech giants but will ...
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.
- 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 ...
- Originalism's General-Law Turn 🔥Originalists are increasingly turning to a general-law theory of constitutional rights. Under this theory, constitutional enactment declared but did not create ...
- Five Urban Futures for a Hot Planet: U.S. Legal Scenarios† If current climate change trends continue, flooding, extreme heat and wildfires will make the homes of millions or tens of millions of people in the United Stat ...
- The Interstitial Executive: A View from the Founding† The Supreme Court appears poised to recognize a unitary executive President with power to override statutory removal restrictions for almost all principal offic ...
- AI in the Court by Natarajan Balasubramanian, Chenyang Pan, Jian Xie, Wenjian Xu :: SSRN This paper examines how the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies influences judicial performance in China. We use large language models to iden ...
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.
- Do LLMs Truly Understand When a Precedent Is Overruled?† 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows show promise for complex legal reasoning tasks, yet their ability to understand long legal documents remains insufficiently evaluated. Develo...
- If generative AI is the answer, what is the question?† 🔥🔥Beginning with text and images, generative AI has expanded to audio, video, computer code, and molecules. Yet, if generative AI is the answer, what is the question? We explore the foundations of gener...
- Conformal Defects in Neural Network Field Theories 🔥Neural Network Field Theories (NN-FTs) represent a novel construction of arbitrary field theories, including those of conformal fields, through the specification of the network architecture and prior ...
- Weekend reads: Springer Nature retracts papers using ‘bonkers’ dataset; preprint server welcomes AI authors; ethics editors’ COI disclosures ‘insufficient’ 🔥Dear RW readers, we look forward to wrapping up the week with Weekend Reads. If you enjoy it too, please consider showing your support with a tax-deductible donation. I support retraction wat…
- A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI† With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.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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