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 EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators 🔥🔥🔥🔥State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation ...
- U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers 🔥🔥🔥
- Trump says US needs Greenland after naming special envoy 🔥🔥Denmark warns Washington to respect its sovereignty, while Greenland says it will decide its own future.
- Bob Vylan: No charges over IDF chants during Glastonbury set 🔥🔥Avon and Somerset Police says the incident ...
- Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back 🔥🔥The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
- Email by 'A' from 'Balmoral' asked Ghislaine Maxwell for 'inappropriate friends', Epstein files show - live updates 🔥🔥The emails do not indicate any wrongdoing. The BBC has contacted Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's team for a response.
- Justice Department releases card mentioning Trump, purportedly sent from Epstein to Nassar 🔥🔥The U.S. Justice Department released an image on Tuesday of a card that makes a crude reference to President Donald Trump, purportedly written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar...
- Bet365 boss receives at least £280m in pay and dividends despite profit slump 🔥Denise Coates’s gambling empire reports turnover of £4bn in year to March 2025, up from £3.7bn ...
- Labour calls to rejoin EU customs union will become harder for Starmer to resist 🔥Wes Streeting’s wish for deeper trade relations to help fight against Farage is shared by growing number of MPs ...
- Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan 🔥Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy ...
- The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office. 🔥
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.
- Susie Wiles’s Inadvertent Indictment of Trump 🔥🔥Take it from his closest aide: he’s a corrupt liar ...
- December 23, 2025 🔥On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will celebrate seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh.
- Important Evening Update: Chaos at the DOJ Over Epstein Files as Trump Caught in Another Lie 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Major Epstein Update: Bombshell Files Released Overnight and Many Mentions of Trump 🔥The Justice Department released thousands of documents while you were asleep. I have reviewed many of them.
- Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, rejects Trump's effort to deploy National Guard in Illinois for now 🔥More than two months after DOJ asked for "immediate" relief, the Supreme Court said no on Tuesday. Also: A Kavanaugh note on Kavanaugh stops.
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.
- Trump AI czar David Sacks starts to worry the industry† 🔥Sacks is supposed to be pushing the tech industry’s AI agenda in Washington. But lobbyists fear he could be derailing it nationwide.
- New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot training† 🔥An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk's xAI, Anthropic, Google , OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems.
- Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI | TechPolicy.Press† Hao's new book is Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, out now from Penguin Press.
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.
- Controllable Probabilistic Forecasting with Stochastic Decomposition Layers 🔥🔥🔥AI weather prediction ensembles with latent noise injection and optimized with the continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) have produced both accurate and well-calibrated predictions with far less ...
- Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasoning, hypothesis genera...
- Extracting Anyon Statistics from Neural Network Fractional Quantum Hall States† 🔥Fractional quantum Hall states host emergent anyons with exotic exchange statistics, but obtaining direct access to their topological properties in real systems remains a challenge. Neural-network wav...
- Elephants Don't Pack Groceries: Robot Task Planning for Low Entropy Belief States† 🔥Recent advances in computational perception have significantly improved the ability of autonomous robots to perform state estimation with low entropy. Such advances motivate a reconsideration of robot...
- The Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link between the Transformer and Models of the Brain† The relationship between computing systems and the brain has served as motivation for pioneering theoreticians since John von Neumann and Alan Turing. Uniform, scale-free biological networks, such as ...
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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