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.
- Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Kennedy Center’s Christmas Eve Jazz Show Canceled After Trump Name Added to Building 🔥
- Tracking Domestic Deployments of the U.S. Military The upcoming main navigation can be gotten through utilizing the tab key. Any buttons that open a sub navigation can be triggered by the space or enter key.
- Opinion | The Opioid Crisis Never Ended. It Was Inherited by the Children. (Gift Article) The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.
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.
- Christmas Good News Only Update!! 🔥🔥Merry Christmas everyone!!
- December 25, 2025 🔥🔥The modern version of Santa Claus arrived in the United States in 1863, when he stopped at an army camp of Union soldiers in the January 3 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa w...
- Jesus in Islam 🔥What Muslims Believe About the Son of Mary ...
- Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena† 🔥The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
- Annual Review 2025: What I Got Wrong Complete with quotes!
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.
- 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident† 🔥🔥🔥🔥How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
- 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.
- The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here† 🔥Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.
- Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs.† A majority of teens are interacting with AI companions, and many of their parents have no idea.
- John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies | TechCrunch† These authors rejected Anthropic's class action settlement, arguing that "LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates."
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 ...
- 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 ...
- THE SUPREME COURT AS DEATH PANEL: THE NECROPOLITICS OF BRUEN AND DOBBS† Two decisions in 2022, issued only a day apart, represent a dramatic and deadly escalation of the Supreme Court's politicized jurisprudence. In New York State R ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Graph Transformers: A Survey† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Graph Transformers: A Survey ...
- Machine Learning meets Algebraic Combinatorics: A Suite of Datasets Capturing Research-level Conjecturing Ability in Pure Mathematics† 🔥🔥With recent dramatic increases in AI system capabilities, there has been growing interest in utilizing machine learning for reasoning-heavy, quantitative tasks, particularly mathematics. While there a...
- 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...
- Is Your Conditional Diffusion Model Actually Denoising? 🔥ArXiv link for Is Your Conditional Diffusion Model Actually Denoising?
- 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)
- 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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