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.
- Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. 🔥🔥🔥🔥One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
- Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s 🔥🔥‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says ...
- Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip 🔥🔥
- Stars and Stripes job applicants are asked if they back Trump policies 🔥People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities.
- The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says 🔥A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
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.
- January 14, 2026 🔥🔥🔥🔥Today is officially Ratification Day, the anniversary of the day in 1784 when members of the Confederation Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War and formally recognize...
- BREAKING: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act in Minnesota as Articles of Impeachment Introduced for Kristi Noem 🔥We have a serious update this morning.
- Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.” The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
- Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.” The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
- Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
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.
- X ‘acting to comply with UK law’ after outcry over sexualised images 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥New polling suggests 58% of Britons think X should be banned in the UK if the social network fails to crack down on nonconsensual images ...
- AI’s Memorization Crisis† 🔥🔥Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
- Grok Supercharges the Nonconsensual Pornography Epidemic | TechPolicy.Press 🔥Without meaningful pushback from regulators and users, Grok’s example risks setting a dangerously permissive precedent that, writes Kaylee Williams.
- Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe | TechCrunch The California Attorney General has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.
- California Attorney General Investigating xAI Over Grok’s Deepfakes Gov. Gavin Newsom said “vile” images of women and children prompted the probe of Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company.
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 Counterfeit Sham† 🔥🔥🔥There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
- Of State Remedies and Federal Rights 🔥The Supreme Court has repudiated Bivens on the grounds that it arrogated legislative power to the federal judiciary. As the Court steps back, Congress is free t ...
- The Post-Legitimacy Court 🔥For a long time, for both Justices and many observers, “legitimacy” was a focal criterion for assessing the Supreme Court’s performance. But what ...
- Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II† Article I's Necessary and Proper clause is the starting point for both Congress's power to create offices and the limits on that power. Many legal ...
- The Jurisprudence of Privacy in a Splintered Supreme Court† This essay analyzes the fractured state of privacy jurisprudence in the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly in the wake of Planned Parenthood v. Casey. 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.
- How AI Destroys Institutions† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies ...
- Extracting books from production language models 🔥Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
- Identifying Features that Shape Perceived Consciousness in Large Language Model-based AI: A Quantitative Study of Human Responses† This study quantitively examines which features of AI-generated text lead humans to perceive subjective consciousness in large language model (LLM)-based AI systems. Drawing on 99 passages from conver...
- Learning and Testing Exposure Mappings of Interference using Graph Convolutional Autoencoder† Interference or spillover effects arise when an individual's outcome (e.g., health) is influenced not only by their own treatment (e.g., vaccination) but also by the treatment of others, creating chal...
- 130k Lines of Formal Topology in Two Weeks: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? This is a brief description of a project that has already autoformalized a large portion of the general topology from the Munkres textbook (which has in total 241 pages in 7 chapters and 39 sections)....
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)
- Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) (@shengokai.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin (@justinlawguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (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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