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.
- U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Washington’s New Lobbyists: Paid Online Influencers With Few Rules 🔥🔥🔥Corporate and foreign interests pour money into getting pro-Trump social-media stars to push their causes.
- Kelly Sues Pentagon Over Threats of Punishment From Hegseth 🔥🔥
- For Years, Powell Avoided Fighting Trump. That’s Over. 🔥🔥After receiving grand jury subpoenas, the Fed chair spent the weekend deciding how to respond. By Sunday, he had his answer.
- Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election 🔥
- UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week 🔥It is currently illegal to share deepfakes, but the law against creating them has not yet come into force.
- Sen. Kelly Sues Department of Defense Over Disciplinary Actions 🔥The suit alleges the Defense Department retaliated against Kelly for protected speech and interfered with his Article I duties.
- Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight 🔥
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.
- My First 72 Hours in Minneapolis and How I Got an ICE Agent to Scream “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” 🔥🔥🔥🔥The activists on the ground are doing the work, that should give you hope.
- The Week Ahead 🔥January 11, 2026 ...
- The Strongman Fantasy (text and audio) And Dictatorship in Real Life ...
- Battle of the Bulge Episode 2: The Malmedy Massacre This is the second installment of the Battle of the Bulge series for Journey to American Democracy.
- January 12, 2026 Today, Democratic senator Mark Kelly of Arizona sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Defense Department, Navy Secretary John Phelan, and the Navy Department for violating his First Amendment right...
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.
- AI’s Memorization Crisis 🔥🔥🔥Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
- Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem 🔥🔥
- ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back "Inherently Dangerous" GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims 🔥Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death and normalized suicidality as it pushed a man to take his life.
- UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok 🔥The law will come into force this week.
- 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 ...
- Why Europe Could Block X Over Grok Scandal But Probably Won’t | TechPolicy.Press 🔥X could be blocked under the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act, but proportionality and technical hurdles make it unlikely, writes Owen Bennett.
- Malaysia to take legal action against X over Grok AI concerns 🔥Malaysia's communications regulator said on Tuesday it will take legal action against social media platform X due to concerns over user safety in relation to artificial intelligence feature Grok.
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.
- Between Neutrality and Norm Compliance: Austria's Arms Export Laws in a Multilateral Order† 🔥This contribution assesses the Austrian arms export regime from a theoretical, legal, and practical perspective. In so doing, we will explain why Au ...
- Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning First Amendment law tends to focus on the exercise of formal government power. Nevertheless, for over six decades now, it has been black letter law that informa ...
- Debimos tirar más fotos: Legal memories from Puerto Rico† Collective memory is fundamental for understanding the role of law within a specific social and historical context. This work, framed through the narrative devi ...
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 ...
- Learning and Testing Exposure Mappings of Interference using Graph Convolutional Autoencoder Interference or spillover effects arise when an individual's outcome (e.g., health) is influenced not only by their own treatment (e.g., vaccination) but also by the treatment of others, creating chal...
- Knowledge Distillation of a Protein Language Model Yields a Foundational Implicit Solvent Model† Implicit solvent models (ISMs) promise to deliver the accuracy of explicit solvent simulations at a fraction of the computational cost. However, despite decades of development, their accuracy has rema...
- Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs† When not using reasoning, repeating the input prompt improves performance for popular models (Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek) without increasing the number of generated tokens or latency.
- Self-optimizing multichannel optical computing Optical computing offers ultrafast, energy-efficient alternatives to conventional digital processors, yet most implementations remain confined to single-channel processing, severely underutilizing lig...
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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