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.
- Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Exclusive | Trump Blasted Federal Prosecutors at White House Event, Calling Them Weak 🔥🔥🔥The president criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a photo shoot, a day before the Federal Reserve subpoenas.
- Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis 🔥Clips from creators in Minnesota have become primary evidence in attempts by the right wing to justify ICE’s surge on American cities.
- Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says 🔥A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind in one eye after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protes...
- Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter 🔥The vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA.
- Facing Contempt Threat, Clintons Refuse to Testify in Epstein Inquiry 🔥
- Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California 🔥
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.
- Should ICE Agents Be Able To Wear Masks? 🔥🔥🔥Protect and serve.
- The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us 🔥what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
- LIVE SOON: Ten federal prosecutors resign over DOJ's dirty handling of the Renee Good fatal shooting 🔥Starting Jan 13 at 8:30 PM EST ...
- SCOTUS likely to allow state trans sports bans, but a changed tone could signal a narrow ruling 🔥Although a majority appeared unlikely to strike down West Virginia and Idaho's bans, there also seemed to be interest in avoiding a final decision on constitutional questions for now.
- January 13, 2026 🔥Officials in the Trump administration insist its surges of federal agents into Democratic-led cities are necessary to round up undocumented immigrants, but the agents’ mission increasingly looks as if...
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.
- Minnesota officials sue to block Trump's immigration crackdown as enforcement intensifies 🔥🔥🔥🔥More than 2,000 federal immigration agents are in Minnesota, and that number is expected to increase. On Monday, an NPR reporter witnessed multiple instances where immigration agents drove around Minn...
- AI’s Memorization Crisis† 🔥🔥Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
- Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem† 🔥
- Waymo scolded by judge after robotaxi company refuses to discuss details from power outage 🔥A judge scolded Waymo during an administrative rules proceeding after the company refused to disclose how many of its robotaxis had stalled during a power outage in San Francisco.
- Can X be banned under UK law and what are the other options? UK media regulator is investigating whether X has breached the Online Safety Act – what could happen next?
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 Counterfeit Sham 🔥🔥🔥There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
- Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II Article I's Necessary and Proper clause is the starting point for both Congress's power to create offices and the limits on that power. Many legal ...
- Is There a Captain in the Ship? The EU Copyright Regulator’s Quest in the Generative AI Era In the last phase of the adoption process of the AI Act, provisions on copyright protection have been introduced in the text of the regulation after gr ...
- The Jurisprudence of Privacy in a Splintered Supreme Court This essay analyzes the fractured state of privacy jurisprudence in the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly in the wake of Planned Parenthood v. Casey. I ...
- Between Neutrality and Norm Compliance: Austria's Arms Export Laws in a Multilateral Order† This contribution assesses the Austrian arms export regime from a theoretical, legal, and practical perspective. In so doing, we will explain why Au ...
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.
- How AI Destroys Institutions† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies ...
- Identifying Features that Shape Perceived Consciousness in Large Language Model-based AI: A Quantitative Study of Human Responses This study quantitively examines which features of AI-generated text lead humans to perceive subjective consciousness in large language model (LLM)-based AI systems. Drawing on 99 passages from conver...
- Learning and Testing Exposure Mappings of Interference using Graph Convolutional Autoencoder† Interference or spillover effects arise when an individual's outcome (e.g., health) is influenced not only by their own treatment (e.g., vaccination) but also by the treatment of others, creating chal...
- The environmental impact of ICT in the era of data and artificial intelligence The technology industry promotes artificial intelligence (AI) as a key enabler to solve a vast number of problems, including the environmental crisis. However, when looking at the emissions of datacen...
- Is There a Captain in the Ship? The EU Copyright Regulator’s Quest in the Generative AI Era In the last phase of the adoption process of the AI Act, provisions on copyright protection have been introduced in the text of the regulation after gr ...
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)
- Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) (@shengokai.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin (@justinlawguy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (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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