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.
- Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
- Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks to Keep Justice Dept. From Steering Case to Favored Judge 🔥🔥
- Suffolk water boss says new reservoirs needed to address demand 🔥Water company says it needs two new reservoirs and a recycling plant to cope with demand in Suffolk.
- Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast 🔥
- Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back 🔥Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers ...
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.
- Important Evening News Update 🔥🔥Bill Clinton demands the release of the Epstein files. 60 Minutes accidentally airs the CECOT episode in Canada. Trump renames battleships after himself. Trump cuts funding for trafficking survivors.
- NEWS: CBS Cancels 60 Minutes Episode to Prevent White House Backlash and Epstein Survivors Blast Justice Department 🔥🔥CBS cancels 60 Minutes to placate White House. Epstein survivors blast DOJ and demand Congressional action. Trump makes push to takeover Greenland.
- What have we learned about child poverty in America? 🔥🔥Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights ...
- A Conviction, Two Orders, and A Lawsuit 🔥Also announcing a very special Substack Live in the morning ...
- December 22, 2025 🔥This afternoon, President Donald J.
- Phillips O’Brien and Volodomyr Havrylov 🔥A recording from Phillips P. OBrien's live video ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 276. 12/22/25 🔥… WSJ: “CBS News pulled a planned ‘60 Minutes’ segment on an El Salvador maximum-security prison where the Trump admin sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, a last-minute decision that drew a rebuke f...
- LIVE SOON: Bondi violates federal law by failing to disclose Epstein files: impeach, remove, prosecute. Let's discuss 🔥Starting Dec 22 at 9:00 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.
- Sam Altman Got What He Wanted† 🔥🔥🔥For now ...
- Trump AI czar David Sacks starts to worry the industry 🔥🔥Sacks is supposed to be pushing the tech industry’s AI agenda in Washington. But lobbyists fear he could be derailing it nationwide.
- New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot training 🔥An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk's xAI, Anthropic, Google , OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems.
- How Might Trump’s AI Executive Order Impact State Laws Regulating Nonconsensual Deepfakes? | TechPolicy.Press 🔥Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
- Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI | TechPolicy.Press Hao's new book is Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, out now from Penguin Press.
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 Chadha Presidency 🔥🔥Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the answer to th ...
- Teaching Torture at the School of the Americas A few years ago, the author of this article visited the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Old women carrying large photographs of their dead children ma ...
- Foreign Affairs Prosecutions and Cybercrime In his article Contested Criminalization, Professor Steven Koh advances a theory of how the United States sets its global criminal justice policy, in which it u ...
- The Nonpartisan Case for Supreme Court Expansion† It should be a shared premise across the ideological spectrum that individual Supreme Court justices hold too much power. The only other public officia ...
- Government Repression of the Public Majority: Things are Objectively Bad, 83 Bench & Bar of Minnesota __ (Jan-Feb 2026) (forthcoming) How civically bad are things in the United States? This bar journal essay grapples with this question that is getting constant discussion and tho ...
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.
- Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery† 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasoning, hypothesis genera...
- Extracting Anyon Statistics from Neural Network Fractional Quantum Hall States 🔥Fractional quantum Hall states host emergent anyons with exotic exchange statistics, but obtaining direct access to their topological properties in real systems remains a challenge. Neural-network wav...
- Elephants Don't Pack Groceries: Robot Task Planning for Low Entropy Belief States† 🔥Recent advances in computational perception have significantly improved the ability of autonomous robots to perform state estimation with low entropy. Such advances motivate a reconsideration of robot...
- The Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link between the Transformer and Models of the Brain† The relationship between computing systems and the brain has served as motivation for pioneering theoreticians since John von Neumann and Alan Turing. Uniform, scale-free biological networks, such as ...
- AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery† In this white paper, we present AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent that substantially enhances capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs on highly challenging tasks such as tackling open scientific...
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)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Brody (@dbrody.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don’t Have To Apologize For Being Popehat Anymore (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Deborah Pearlstein (@debpearlstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.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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