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.
- A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 🔥🔥🔥More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings ...
- Administration fails again to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James 🔥🔥A grand jury has refused to indict New York attorney general Letitia James, the second panel to refuse to do so, dealing a major setback to President Trump.
- ChatGPT spurred a 56-year-old man to kill his mother, lawsuit says† 🔥A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
- How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors The controversial order given by Adm. Frank Bradley is under scrutiny from Congress. Inside the most consequential deliberation of his career.
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.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 268. 12/11/25 🔥🔥… A contentious exchange took place today between Kristi Noem and Rep.
- The Trump administration's authoritarian house of cards is starting to fall down 🔥🔥Kilmar Abrego Garcia is "[o]n his way home." Another grand jury rejected DOJ's effort to indict Letitia James. And, Indiana Republicans said no to Trump's redistricting pressure.
- Judge Breyer on Trump's Continued Federalization of the California National Guard 🔥Federal District Judge Charles Breyer issued a ruling in the California National Guard case earlier this week.
- NEWS: Kristi Noem Accused of Lying Under Oath and Trump Officials Fail to Answer Basic Questions in Explosive Hearing Noem and senior DHS officials struggled to answer basic questions during the hearing, with Noem accused of lying to Congress under oath and Trump-era officials unable to explain anything about Antifa ...
- BREAKING: Indiana Senate Republicans Rebuke Trump and Reject Gerrymandered Maps in Stunning Vote We have breaking news right now.
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.
- ChatGPT spurred a 56-year-old man to kill his mother, lawsuit says† 🔥🔥🔥🔥A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life.
- Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill - The American Prospect 🔥🔥🔥A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.
- Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws 🔥The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
- a blurry picture of a police officer with a badge on his chest 🔥Alt: a blurry picture of a police officer, Al Powell from Diehard, with a badge on his chest ...
- Disney’s OpenAI Deal ‘Appears to Sanction’ AI Company’s ‘Theft of Our Work,’ WGA Says 🔥The Writers Guild of America said that Disney's huge licensing deal with OpenAI appears to "sanction" the AI company's "theft of our work."
- The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora 🔥Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
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 Chadha Presidency† 🔥🔥🔥Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the answer to th ...
- Representing Climate Wreckers† In recent years, lawyers have become increasingly aware of the implications of the climate crisis for legal practice. Amidst this context, United Nations Secret ...
- 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 ...
- 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 increasingly ado ...
- 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 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.
- A Diffusion-Based Framework for High-Resolution Precipitation Forecasting over CONUS 🔥🔥🔥Accurate precipitation forecasting is essential for hydrometeorological risk management, especially for anticipating extreme rainfall that can lead to flash flooding and infrastructure damage. This st...
- When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models† 🔥🔥🔥Frontier large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini are increasingly used for mental-health support with anxiety, trauma and self-worth. Most work treats them as tools or as targets...
- Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types 🔥ArXiv link for Algorithms Trained on Normal Chest X-rays Can Predict Health Insurance Types ...
- Comparing AI Agents to Cybersecurity Professionals in Real-World Penetration Testing 🔥ArXiv link for Comparing AI Agents to Cybersecurity Professionals in Real-World Penetration Testing ...
- 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." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rebecca Williams (@rebeccawilliams.info) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ralph Janik (@ralphjanik.com) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.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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