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.
- Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s† 🔥🔥🔥🔥‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says ...
- Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip† 🔥🔥
- The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says† 🔥A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
- Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalil’s Rearrest 🔥
- Opinion | Something Is Rotten in the State of America 🔥
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.
- Trump, Vance, and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Hate 🔥🔥The betrayal behind the rhetoric of safety ...
- Noem says that virtually anyone could face a Kavanaugh stop 🔥🔥Trump started off the day with an Insurrection Act threat. DHS Sec. Noem followed up by saying that anyone "surrounding" any DHS target has to prove their legal status.
- 10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026 🔥Your activism will be even more important this year ...
- Don’t Take the Bait 🔥In the time of Trump, “Don’t take the bait” is a rule that’s almost as important as “Do not obey in advance.”
- Important News Update: Trump Suggests United States Should Cancel Upcoming Elections and European Troops Land on Greenland 🔥Good afternoon 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.
- The Most Dangerous Corporation in America? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
- X ‘acting to comply with UK law’ after outcry over sexualised images† 🔥New polling suggests 58% of Britons think X should be banned in the UK if the social network fails to crack down on nonconsensual images ...
- The mirage of AI deregulation 🔥One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
- Grok Supercharges the Nonconsensual Pornography Epidemic | TechPolicy.Press† Without meaningful pushback from regulators and users, Grok’s example risks setting a dangerously permissive precedent that, writes Kaylee Williams.
- Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe | TechCrunch† The California Attorney General has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.
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 Post-Legitimacy Court† 🔥🔥🔥For a long time, for both Justices and many observers, “legitimacy” was a focal criterion for assessing the Supreme Court’s performance. But what ...
- 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 ...
- Of State Remedies and Federal Rights† The Supreme Court has repudiated Bivens on the grounds that it arrogated legislative power to the federal judiciary. As the Court steps back, Congress is free t ...
- Historical Practice at the Founding In recent years, the Supreme Court has increasingly relied on historical practice—actions other than judicial decisions that implement the law after its adop ...
- Disparate Treatment and Discriminatory Harm When do facially neutral laws, which treat people differently on the basis of traits that are not legally suspect, amount to disparate treatment on ...
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 ...
- Extracting books from production language models† 🔥Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
- 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...
- A Brain-like Synergistic Core in LLMs Drives Behaviour and Learning The independent evolution of intelligence in biological and artificial systems offers a unique opportunity to identify its fundamental computational principles. Here we show that large language models...
- The Promptware Kill Chain: How Prompt Injections Gradually Evolved Into a Multi-Step Malware
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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