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.
- 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 ...
- Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance 🔥🔥🔥In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
- DHS fast-tracked $1 billion contract to pro-Trump donor’s company 🔥🔥A DHS official leading the process previously worked at the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump nonprofit where the contractor’s CEO was a donor.
- They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple 🔥🔥When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York ...
- Russia Asks United States to Stop Pursuit of Fleeing Oil Tanker 🔥🔥
- 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 ...
- Shamima Begum: Home secretary to 'robustly defend' citizenship decision 🔥🔥The ECHR questions whether it was considered if Shamima Begum was a victim of grooming and trafficking.
- Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches 🔥The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
- The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech 🔥
- Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article) 🔥The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
- Zohran Mamdani Is Sworn In as Mayor of New York City 🔥
- Opinion | A Trump Security Guarantee Is Empty, Mr. Zelensky 🔥
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 5 🔥🔥🔥#401-500. Sept-Dec.
- January 1, 2026 🔥🔥On January 1, 1892, seventeen-year-old Annie Moore walked down the gangway from the steamship Nevada with her two brothers Anthony, eleven, and Philip, nine, and into history as the first person proce...
- LIVE SOON: Let's make 2026 the year we turn back the dictator. We CAN do it! 🔥Starting Jan 1 at 8:00 PM EST ...
- NEWS: New Health Concerns Plague Trump In 2026 as Democratic Mayors Make History Across America Good afternoon everyone.
- Happy New Year, all! A year of legal coverage — in which Law Dork nearly doubled in size.
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.
- New Report on AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material† 🔥🔥Insights from Educators, Platforms, Law Enforcement, Legislators, and Victims ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- AI-Faked Cases Become Core Issue Irritating Overworked Judges AI-hallucinated case citations have moved from novelty to a core challenge for the courts, prompting complaints from judges that the issue distracts from the merits of the cases in front of them.
- 2025 letter | Dan Wang Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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.
- More than Carbon: Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU 🔥🔥🔥The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has intensified concerns about its environmental sustainability. Current assessments focus on operational carbon emissions using secondary data, ove...
- DECEPTICON: How Dark Patterns Manipulate Web Agents† 🔥ArXiv link for DECEPTICON: How Dark Patterns Manipulate Web Agents ...
- Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations ArXiv link for Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations ...
- Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do? The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises which are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. Language engineers are playing a central role, persisting ...
- ExPLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Extended Pre-Training to Adapt Vision Transformers under Domain Shifts ArXiv link for ExPLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Extended Pre-Training to Adapt Vision Transformers under Domain Shifts ...
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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