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.
- ‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations 🔥🔥🔥🔥CBS News postponed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
- Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m 🔥🔥The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
- Jim Ratcliffe chemical firms received up to £70m of UK state aid in last four years 🔥The government is preparing a £50m bailout for Ineos’s Grangemouth plant, after Jim Ratcliffe asked for help in October ...
- University threatened with legal action after protest at event 🔥Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a ...
- ‘Bills keep going higher’: community ‘warm spaces’ on the rise in the UK 🔥As places such as Walworth Living Room step in to help people in need, charities lament lack of government help ...
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.
- December 21, 2025 🔥🔥Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.
- Important Sunday Evening Message 🔥A very big week is coming up. Media censorship is alive and well. Let's keep pushing for justice for the survivors.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 275 🔥… DOJ is under fire from both Democrats and Republicans as they failed to comply with the law to release all the Epstein files by the Dec.
- What's the Real Quid Pro Quo with Bukele? 🔥Hint: It's not about fighting "terrorism," or stopping illegal immigration.
- Is It Too Late? 🔥No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle ...
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.
- Press Release - December 19, 2025 - 2 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association† 🔥🔥Guidance from the SFWA Board on the major questions in this year's Nebula Awards Review Process: for poetry, category minimums, and LLMs.
- Sam Altman Got What He Wanted 🔥🔥For now ...
- How Trump’s AI Executive Order Gets It Wrong on Civil Rights | TechPolicy.Press† 🔥Trump's AI executive order targeting civil rights protections relies on a distortion of AI models, AI regulation and federal laws, Leah Frazier writes.
- 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.
- How Might Trump’s AI Executive Order Impact State Laws Regulating Nonconsensual Deepfakes? | TechPolicy.Press† 🔥Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
- Texas legislators oppose Trump order to block state AI laws 🔥Texas’ new law regulating AI is set to take effect Jan. 1, two months after Trump’s executive order threatening to cut off some federal money if states pass “onerous” AI laws.
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.
- Government Religious Speech and the Establishment Clause† 🔥The government says religious things. From monuments and holiday displays to legislative prayers, religion saturates the government’s public voice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery 🔥In this white paper, we present AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent that substantially enhances capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs on highly challenging tasks such as tackling open scientific...
- NoveltyRank: Estimating Conceptual Novelty of AI Papers† ArXiv link for NoveltyRank: Estimating Conceptual Novelty of AI Papers ...
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)
- Giraffe Or Possibly Popehat (@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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