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.
- Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years 🔥🔥🔥An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
- Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them? 🔥🔥🔥The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.
- 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 | Bari Weiss Delivers for CBS’s Parent 🔥🔥The Ellison family is getting what it paid for when it acquired the journalistic mouthpiece.
- Flu Cases Climb to Highest Levels in New York City in a Decade 🔥
- UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’ 🔥Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountability ...
- Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions 🔥
- With Help of Lina Khan, Mamdani Looks to Quickly Cut Costs for New Yorkers 🔥
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.
- 25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin 🔥🔥🔥The worst of the worst, ranked 1-25.
- Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files 🔥🔥With apologies for writing about such a serious topic as we enter the Christmas holidays, these developments seemed too important to ignore.
- December 26, 2025 On Tuesday, December 23, the U.S.
- NEWS: Justice Department Scrambles as Bipartisan Condemnation Grows Concerning Epstein Files Good morning everyone.
- 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.
- 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.
- '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.
- 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.
- 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...
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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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...
- $γ(3,4)$ `Attention' in Cognitive Agents: Ontology-Free Knowledge Representations With Promise Theoretic Semantics The semantics and dynamics of `attention' are closely related to promise theoretic notions developed for autonomous agents and can thus easily be written down in promise framework. In this way one may...
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)
- Your Last Merry Popehat (@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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