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.
- Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Susie Wiles Talks About The First Year of Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) 🔥🔥🔥In the first half of ‘Vanity Fair’’s interview with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster, the FBI’s “incredible job” investigating January 6, and how Trump once berated ...
- Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’ 🔥🔥🔥The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
- UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme 🔥🔥Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say ...
- Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries 🔥🔥Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegations ...
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.
- Jack Smith Testifies Before The House Judiciary Committee 🔥🔥🔥🔥Making sense of the circus ...
- A Terrible Tragedy, A Sick Response Mad Hattery and Other Outrages: A Short Video ...
- NEWS: White House in Turmoil as Susie Wiles Faces Major Backlash for Expsosing Internal Chaos Susie Wiles called Trump an alcoholic, Vance a conspiracy theorist, Russ Vought a zealot, and Musk a ketamine user. Now, the White House is in panic mode.
- The Parnas Perspective | Aaron Parnas | Substack Providing you with the Gen Z perspective on all the issues in the news. Click to read The Parnas Perspective, by Aaron Parnas, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 272. 12/16/25 … An explosive article in Vanity Fair profiling WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has the WH in full circle-the-wagons mode since her quotes about things behind the scenes didn’t exactly paint a pretty pi...
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.
- Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal† 🔥🔥🔥The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…
- Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan† 🔥🔥🔥Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue ...
- 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.
- Judge fines law firm Hagens Berman over AI errors in OnlyFans case† 🔥A judge in California has fined plaintiffs’ law firm Hagens Berman, one of its partners, and another lawyer a combined $13,000 for the “misuse” of artificial intelligence in several court filings in a lawsuit against the parent company of adult content social media site OnlyFans.
- A Critical Look at Trump's AI Executive Order | TechPolicy.Press Olivier Sylvain, a professor of law at Fordham Law School and a senior policy research fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
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 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.
- Legal Corpus Linguistics and the Half Empirical Attitude† Legal writers have recently turned to corpus linguistics to interpret legal texts. Corpus linguistics, a social-science methodology, provides a sophisticated wa ...
- The Special Solicitude of Stare Decisis in Civil Rights This Article argues that the Supreme Court should apply heightened stare decisis protection to rights-conferring precedents—constitutiona ...
- Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition In challenging the historical assumptions underlying the unitary executive theory, scholars have made several seemingly unrelated discoveries. F ...
- Robert Cover's Narrative Approach to Constitutionalism† This paper aims to prove that Robert Cover’s theory of narrative might play an important role for contemporary constitutionalism. In particular, it purports to ...
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.
- Source framing triggers systematic evaluation bias in Large Language Models 🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used not only to generate text but also to evaluate it, raising urgent questions about whether their judgments are consistent, unbiased, and robust to fra...
- 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 ...
- Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4† Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our unde...
- Confucius Code Agent: An Open-sourced AI Software Engineer at Industrial Scale ArXiv link for Confucius Code Agent: An Open-sourced AI Software Engineer at Industrial Scale ...
- AI Policies for Law Schools This paper examines how generative AI, particularly large language models, challenges legal education across three dimensions of integrity-pedagogical, assessme ...
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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