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.
- Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
- Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor† 🔥🔥Exclusive: UK now an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader ...
- Opinion | Why West Africa is worth worrying about 🔥Strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria are welcome but insufficient.
- A Peter Thiel-Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware 🔥Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.
- Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around | Larry Elliott 🔥Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott ...
- Don't rule out EU customs union, TUC boss Nowak tells Starmer 🔥Trade unionist Paul Nowak says he wants to see the ...
- New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings 🔥Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New...
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.
- 500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025 🔥🔥🔥Part 1-100, January-March 2025.
- China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns From 2027, cars sold in China must have manual door releases after electronic handles failing during crashes. Tesla and other brands will need design changes.
- NEWS: Trump Furious as Epstein Files Issue Continues to Plague the White House During Holiday Season Good morning everyone.
- December 27, 2025 Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S.
- LIVE SOON: What do we need to keep us safer in America? According to Trump and Bondi . . . more guns. Starting Dec 27 at 8:30 PM EST ...
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’s AI Order Is More Bark than Bite† 🔥🔥🔥While the executive order has created uncertainty for the many states that have passed artificial intelligence policies to protect their residents, its impact falls short of its menacing rhetoric.
- AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI model...
- How Trump’s AI Executive Order Gets It Wrong on Civil Rights | TechPolicy.Press Trump's AI executive order targeting civil rights protections relies on a distortion of AI models, AI regulation and federal laws, Leah Frazier writes.
- German minister sees 'merit' to social media ban for teens – DW – 12/26/2025† Looking into age restrictions on social media is "more than justified," Germany's Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger told the dpa news agency, commenting on Australia banning the platforms for childr...
- AI and ChatGPT Push Students and Faculty to Take a Deeper Look at the Law As AI continues to overtake almost every sector of modern society, Yale Law School is utilizing this moment to encourage its students to explore the tool’s implications and prepare for an ever-changin...
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.
- Government Religious Speech and the Establishment Clause† 🔥The government says religious things. From monuments and holiday displays to legislative prayers, religion saturates the government’s public voice.
- Free Exercise as Establishment† This Article responds to the U.S. Supreme Court's pronouncement in Kennedy v. Bremerton that "history and tradition" should be the primary guid ...
- An Equal Rights Amendment for the Twenty-First Century: Bringing Global Constitutionalism Home† The last few years have seen a renewed push to constitutionalize sex equality in the United States. A generation after the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
- Feminist Jurisprudence, Personal Liberation, and Hope† Global examples evidence the failure of achieving, and backlash against, gender equality, contributing to a need to revisit feminist jurisprudence and its metho ...
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.
- Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence† 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human ...
- Academic journals' AI policies fail to curb the surge in AI-assisted academic writing 🔥The rapid integration of generative AI into academic writing has prompted widespread policy responses from journals and publishers. However, the effectiveness of these policies remains unclear. Here, ...
- Probing Scientific General Intelligence of LLMs with Scientist-Aligned Workflows† 🔥Despite advances in scientific AI, a coherent framework for Scientific General Intelligence (SGI)-the ability to autonomously conceive, investigate, and reason across scientific domains-remains lackin...
- Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving cars† ArXiv link for Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving cars ...
- 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 thr...
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)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Your Last Merry Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- David Brody (@dbrody.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (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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