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 | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa 🔥🔥🔥🔥Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
- New Class of Warship to Be Named After Trump 🔥🔥The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
- Disability charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE 🔥🔥Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, says the situation facing disabled people in the UK is "simply intolerable".
- Phone Searches at the Border Are Up. How to Protect Your Privacy. 🔥🔥
- Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon 🔥🔥Donald Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, toppled the capstone of one of the most ambitious narcotics investigations in the history of the Department of Justic...
- Charity warns of rise in 'clothing poverty' among working people 🔥🔥The Sharewear Clothing Scheme in Nottingham says demand is so high it is running out of clothes.
- NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts 🔥🔥
- Opinion | I Counted Trump’s Censorship Attempts. Here’s What I Found. 🔥🔥
- Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025 🔥Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page ...
- Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets 🔥The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...
- Justice Dept. Is Now Said to Be Reviewing 5.2 Million Pages of Epstein Files† 🔥
- Even as U.S. Blows Up Boats, Coast Guard Captures Others at Sea 🔥
- Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living 🔥PM to highlight energy bill and interest rate cuts, plus end to two-child benefit cap, and to invite his MPs to Chequers ...
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.
- December 31, 2025 🔥🔥🔥And so, the sun sets on 2025.
- December 30, 2025 🔥🔥The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J.
- Important Epstein News Update 🔥Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Trump was much closer than previously reported. Trump vetos two bipartisan bills for political reasons. Trump quietly changes Kennedy Center bylaws.
- The Death of USAID The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale ...
- 2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides Amongst many stories, one stands out ...
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.
- To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
- Musk's X resolves Eliza Labs lawsuit over AI agents 🔥Artificial intelligence software developer Eliza Labs has ended its lawsuit accusing billionaire Elon Musk’s X Corp of extracting valuable information from the company before launching copycat AI products.
- Scared of artificial intelligence? New law forces makers to disclose disaster plans 🔥New AI regulation forces Big Tech companies to disclose how they plan to prevent and handle artificial intelligence disasters.
- New Report on AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Insights from Educators, Platforms, Law Enforcement, Legislators, and Victims ...
- AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology ...
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 14 Myths of Guantánamo: Senate Armed Services Committee Statement of Mark P. Denbeaux 🔥Before habeas corpus was recognized for Guantánamo detainees, the Executive Branch of our government claimed loudly and often that those detained in Guantánamo ...
- Gubernatorial Decreemaking versus Emergency Administrative Rulemaking: Lessons from the Covid Pandemic Governors’ broad exercise of emergency power for an extended period of time during the COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented in United States history. Looki ...
- On the Relative Irrelevance of Constitutional Design: Lessons from Poland The paper begins with a reflection on whether there had been a proper constitutional ‘design’ in the case of Poland, considering the path-dependence and conting ...
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.
- Less is more: Probabilistic reduction is best explained by small-scale predictability measures† 🔥🔥The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and ...
- Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games† Ensuring the safety of language models (LMs) while maintaining their usefulness remains a critical challenge in AI alignment. Current approaches rely on sequential adversarial training: generating adv...
- DECEPTICON: How Dark Patterns Manipulate Web Agents† ArXiv link for DECEPTICON: How Dark Patterns Manipulate Web Agents ...
- Scaled-Dot-Product Attention as One-Sided Entropic Optimal Transport ArXiv link for Scaled-Dot-Product Attention as One-Sided Entropic Optimal Transport ...
- A Survey on Generative Modeling with Limited Data, Few Shots, and Zero Shot ArXiv link for A Survey on Generative Modeling with Limited Data, Few Shots, and Zero Shot ...
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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