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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Nearly 2 dozen states sue the Trump administration over funding for CFPB 🔥🔥🔥The attorneys general say the Trump administration is refusing to accept funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which could hurt consumers in their states.
- Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors 🔥🔥🔥When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
- Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England 🔥🔥🔥Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills ...
- Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches 🔥🔥The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
- He Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males 🔥🔥
- Trump Says U.S. Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ if Iran Kills Protesters 🔥
- Racial and religious hate crime on UK public transport is growing, data shows 🔥Anti-racism groups warn some people are avoiding public transport or limiting their use of it for fear of abuse ...
- A Diminished Congress Weighs Whether to Reassert Its Power 🔥
- A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup 🔥
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.
- Understanding Mamdani's Vision 🔥🔥His inauguration speech challenges the left to govern ...
- The latest effort to hold Gregory Bovino accountable for his disregard of the rule of law 🔥🔥The Border Patrol official is the subject of a sanctions request in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case in Tennessee.
- The Year America Broke Open 🔥It would be silly to pretend that 2025 was not among the most challenging years this country has faced in modern times.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 278. 1/2/26 🔥… WSJ: “Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just a frequent visitor to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- Important Friday Night News Update Good evening, everyone.
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.
- How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point 🔥🔥🔥🔥Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
- Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X 🔥Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements ...
- New Report on AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material† Insights from Educators, Platforms, Law Enforcement, Legislators, and Victims ...
- Scared of artificial intelligence? New law forces makers to disclose disaster plans† New AI regulation forces Big Tech companies to disclose how they plan to prevent and handle artificial intelligence disasters.
- AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology ...
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.
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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.
- DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning 🔥🔥🔥🔥We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning…
- More than Carbon: Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU† 🔥🔥The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has intensified concerns about its environmental sustainability. Current assessments focus on operational carbon emissions using secondary data, ove...
- Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations† ArXiv link for Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations ...
- Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?† The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises which are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. Language engineers are playing a central role, persisting ...
- ExPLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Extended Pre-Training to Adapt Vision Transformers under Domain Shifts† ArXiv link for ExPLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Extended Pre-Training to Adapt Vision Transformers under Domain Shifts ...
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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