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.
- Venezuela ‘turning over’ $2bn in oil to US, Trump says, in move that could cut supply to China 🔥🔥🔥🔥Deal indicates Venezuelan government is responding to Trump’s demand that they open up to US oil companies or risk more military intervention ...
- Live Updates: Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting 🔥🔥
- Digging for Britain 🔥🔥A small island with a big history. Professor Alice Roberts reveals the fascinating world hidden beneath our feet, showcasing the latest finds of dedicated archaeologists.
- Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims 🔥🔥Paul Patterson questioned by MPs as firm continues to make millions from UK government contracts ...
- Are Federal Officials Immune From State Prosecution? 🔥🔥Contrary to recent assertions, federal officers do not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecutions brought by states.
- Exclusive | Russia Sends Submarine to Escort Tanker the U.S. Tried to Seize Off Venezuela 🔥🔥The move raises the stakes over the Trump administration’s attempt to seize the Bella 1, which officials say is part of fleet transporting illicit oil.
- Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot 🔥🔥The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot ...
- US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House† 🔥It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark, which is pushing back against Trump's ambitions for the Arctic island.
- MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns 🔥Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive data ...
- Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September 🔥
- UK LGBTQ+ charities are in ‘hostile environment’ amid falling donations, experts warn 🔥Stonewall’s corporate funding halves against backdrop of US attacks on DEI and freezing of aid for LGBTQ+ causes ...
- Thetford dig unearths Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard 🔥The discoveries are "extraordinarily rare", say the archaeologists who helped find them.
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.
- Life Under a Clicktatorship 🔥🔥🔥What happens to government when everything is content?
- An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen. 🔥🔥"[A]gents have used excessive force … without justification, often without warning, and even at those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders," Ellis wrote on Nov. 20.
- Live with Steve Vladeck 🔥A difficult day ...
- BREAKING: ICE Shoots and Kills Citizen and the Department of Homeland Security is Lying About What Happened 🔥An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in south Minneapolis on Wednesday after agents conducting an immigration operation clashed with residents attempting to...
- January 7, 2026 🔥This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapoli...
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.
- Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer† 🔥🔥🔥🔥This may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speech, says journalist and content creator Sophia Smith Galer ...
- German minister calls for EU legal steps over Grok images on Musk's X† 🔥🔥🔥German media minister Wolfram Weimer urged the European Commission on Tuesday to take legal action to stop what he called the "industrialisation of sexual harassment" taking place on Elon Musk's social media platform X.
- Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?† 🔥🔥Sexualized AI images violate consent and boundaries, but legal consequences can be elusive.
- Elon Musk’s Deepfake Factory - The American Prospect 🔥Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has apparently been trained to digitally undress people, and a huge population of perverts on Twitter/X are taking full advantage.
- Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy | TechPolicy.Press† 🔥Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action against Elon Musk's company.
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.
- A Lost Opportunity to Protect Democracy Against Itself: What the Supreme Court Got Wrong in Trump v. Anderson† 🔥🔥In Trump v. Anderson, a divided Supreme Court achieved unusual unanimity in an important case. All nine Justices agreed that state governments could n ...
- Statutory Backups for Endangered Constitutional Rights† This Article concerns the phenomenon of "statutory backup rights," or statutes that provide protections parallel to constitutional rights that are bel ...
- Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook (v.2)† Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook is a comprehensive casebook covering all the fundamentals of the United States patent system. It is designed to be used a ...
- Is Design Patent Examination Too Lax? To be patentable, a design is supposed to be novel, nonobvious, and ornamental. But every week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues patent for d ...
- Congress's Article III Power and the Process of Constitutional Change Text in Article III of the U.S. Constitution appears to give to Congress authority to make incursions into judicial supremacy, by restricting (or, less neutrall ...
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 🔥🔥🔥General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) and chain-of-thought prompting, have...
- Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning† 🔥🔥🔥Large-scale autoregressive models pretrained on next-token prediction and finetuned with reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved unprecedented success on many problem domains. During RL, these model...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† ArXiv link for Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task ...
- Structured Decomposition for LLM Reasoning: Cross-Domain Validation and Semantic Web Integration† Rule-based reasoning over natural language input arises in domains where decisions must be auditable and justifiable: clinical protocols specify eligibility criteria in prose, evidence rules define ad...
- Attention Is Not What You Need We revisit a basic question in sequence modeling: is explicit self-attention actually necessary for strong performance and reasoning? We argue that standard multi-head attention is best seen as a form...
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)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- We’re Going To Keep The Popehat (@kenwhite.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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