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.
- Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A Trump official previously complained about a caption beside his National Portrait Gallery photo mentioning his impeachments and the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
- Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds 🔥🔥Exclusive: Voters say they have little confidence that government can control borders despite sharp falls in net migration ...
- David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are ‘unacceptable’ 🔥Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM ...
- Opinion | Video completely undercuts former NYPD officer about alleged assault 🔥A Brooklyn man faced 10 years in prison for driving his car at a police officer — but it never happened.
- Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship' 🔥The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.
- Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban 🔥Utility admits parent company paid CEO Ruth Jefferson and CFO Andy Pymer but denies bonus payments ...
- Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science 🔥
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.
- Friday Round Up! 1/9/26 🔥🔥🔥It was a bad shoot.
- Whether It Is ICE or Local Police, the U.S. Has Normalised Anti-Democratic Law Enforcement Practices 🔥🔥The Grotesque Excesses of ICE Sit Within the Broader Context of Police Brutality ...
- A Little Good News on a Saturday Night 🔥🔥Saturday night, a federal judge prevented the Trump administration from revoking “parole” as many as 15,000 people who don’t have legal immigration status but have been permitted to remain in the U.S.
- January 10, 2026 Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Vice President J.D.
- A Killing, a Cover‑Up, and the Country We’re Becoming What we tolerate now will define us.
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.
- Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Elon Musk's Grok over sexualized images 🔥🔥🔥🔥The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualized content on the app.
- AI’s Memorization Crisis† 🔥🔥Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
- Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.
- Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy | TechPolicy.Press Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action against Elon Musk's company.
- Waymo scolded by judge after robotaxi company refuses to discuss details from power outage A judge scolded Waymo during an administrative rules proceeding after the company refused to disclose how many of its robotaxis had stalled during a power outage in San Francisco.
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.
- Expert Report On The California 2026 Billionaire Tax: Revenue, Economic, and Constitutional Analysis 🔥🔥This report summarizes key provisions of the California Billionaire Tax Act. It also answers some frequently asked questions.
- A Lost Opportunity to Protect Democracy Against Itself: What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in Trump v. Anderson† In Trump v. Anderson, a divided Supreme Court achieved unusual unanimity in an important case. All nine Justices agreed that state governments could n ...
- Redundant Amendments: What the Constitution Says When it Repeats Itself We think of constitutional amendments as the mechanism through which the Constitution changes, but some amendments have been at least partially redundant. Their ...
- State Law, the Westfall Act, and the Nature of the Bivens Question In a number of recent cases touching to varying degrees on national security, different courts of appeals have applied a strong presumption against recognition ...
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.
- 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...
- Can Large Language Models Resolve Semantic Discrepancy in Self-Destructive Subcultures? Evidence from Jirai Kei 🔥Self-destructive behaviors are linked to complex psychological states and can be challenging to diagnose. These behaviors may be even harder to identify within subcultural groups due to their unique e...
- 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 three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.
- Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)† The wording of natural language prompts has been shown to influence the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet the role of politeness and tone remains underexplored. In this study, we invest...
- Criminal Liability of Generative Artificial Intelligence Providers for User-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material† The development of more powerful Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has expanded its capabilities and the variety of outputs. This has introduced significant legal challenges, including gray a...
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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