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.
- Exclusive | Trump Isn’t Certain His Economic Policies Will Translate to Midterm Wins 🔥🔥🔥🔥In an interview, he said his efforts to secure investments in the U.S. haven’t fully taken effect and “I cannot tell you how that’s going to equate to the voter.”
- Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds 🔥🔥🔥Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
- Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls | Nesrine Malik 🔥🔥🔥After weeks of allegations of schoolboy racism, the Reform leader is doubling down. And our political establishment is allowing it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik ...
- YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos viewed 1.2bn times in 2025 🔥🔥Exclusive: More than 150 anonymous channels using cheap AI tools to spread false stories about Keir Starmer, study finds ...
- Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings 🔥🔥Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018 ...
- 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed - BBC News 🔥🔥Eleven people were killed in the shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, as crowds attended an event to celebrate Hanukkah.
- Live Updates: Police Say Jewish Community Targeted in Deadly Sydney Attack 🔥
- Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like 🔥Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets reali...
- ‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump 🔥National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers’ rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations ...
- Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela 🔥JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on ...
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.
- German Heating Law: Stability Instead of Perpetual Debate 🔥🔥🔥This is a machine translation of an article Jan Rosenow wrote for Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik (Journal for Economic Policy). The…
- Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk 🔥The Two Negotiations; Stirrings in Europe ...
- December 14, 2025 Last Sunday, on December 7, Mydelle Wright, a well-regarded preservationist, filed a declaration before a court, saying that President Donald J.
- The Week Ahead Saturday was shattered by two mass shootings.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 270. … Fox devoted a segment to attacking Meidas for our coverage of the bandages on Trump’s hand.
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.
- 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.
- 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."
- Sam Altman Got What He Wanted For now ...
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.
- 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 ...
- Law School is for Boring, Ugly, Serious People NLG Seattle University Chapter held DisOrientation on February 12, 2025. This is the speech I gave."Law school is designed to make you a bad a ...
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…
- The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index ArXiv link for The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index ...
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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