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.
- Former Wessex Water boss received £170,000 bonus despite ban on performance pay 🔥🔥🔥Company owners say bonus was unrelated to water business and complied with ban after pollution conviction ...
- He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him. 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Administration Live Updates: President and Zelensky Begin Meeting at Mar-a-Lago 🔥🔥
- Brigitte Bardot, Movie Idol Who Renounced Stardom, Dies at 91 🔥🔥
- Federal judge dismisses indictment against TikToker shot by ICE, citing constitutional violations 🔥Days before Carlitos Ricardo Parias was set to to go to trial for assault on a federal officer, a federal judge dismissed the case against him. The judge cited the deprivation of Parias' access to cou...
- What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration 🔥
- Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts, analysis finds 🔥Survivors urge government to stop using suppliers cited in public inquiry into fire in which 72 people died ...
- ‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims 🔥Exclusive: Chloë Deakin tells how she wrote to Dulwich college master to argue against Farage’s nomination as prefect ...
- Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger 🔥
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.
- The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College 🔥🔥🔥A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost ...
- 500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025 - Pt. 2 🔥🔥#101-200. February-April 2025 ...
- Trump Keeps Running Interference For Putin 🔥Our addled, corrupt, and ailing leader continues to insult the people of Ukraine, Europe, and The United States of America ...
- The Week Ahead Happy almost New Year!
- December 28, 2025 On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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.
- This Florida nonprofit wants AI to warn communities in real time about drug use 🔥🔥🔥The system from Project Overdose is being beta-tested with plans to roll out statewide early next year.
- AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk† 🔥Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI model...
- Surveillance Tech Heightens Chilling Effects for Disabled Protestors | TechPolicy.Press 🔥AI surveillance, mask bans, and biometrics threaten disabled people’s ability to exercise their right to assemble peaceably, argues Ariana Aboulafia.
- How Trump’s AI Executive Order Gets It Wrong on Civil Rights | TechPolicy.Press† Trump's AI executive order targeting civil rights protections relies on a distortion of AI models, AI regulation and federal laws, Leah Frazier writes.
- The Preemption Fight Goes Far Beyond AI. States Must Persist. | TechPolicy.Press Trump's AI executive order is an escalation of a fight that has been brewing for years, Alan Butler writes.
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 Meaning and Ambiguity of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment 🔥Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualified anyone from serving in the House or Senate, or as a presidential elector, if they had betrayed their oath ...
- Child Rape and the Death Penalty In May 2023, Florida authorized the death penalty for the sexual battery of a child under twelve. The law, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, ch ...
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 ...
- Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity 🔥Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February-...
- Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs When not using reasoning, repeating the input prompt improves performance for popular models (Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek) without increasing the number of generated tokens or latency.
- Academic journals' AI policies fail to curb the surge in AI-assisted academic writing† The rapid integration of generative AI into academic writing has prompted widespread policy responses from journals and publishers. However, the effectiveness of these policies remains unclear. Here, ...
- Continuous Thought Machines Biological brains demonstrate complex neural activity, where neural dynamics are critical to how brains process information. Most artificial neural networks ignore the complexity of individual…
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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