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.
- Opinion | We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers. You Can’t Wish Away the Fourth Amendment. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Exclusive | Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency 🔥🔥🔥Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.
- How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive 🔥🔥
- Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search 🔥
- Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections 🔥
- ICE's Use of AI Will Lead to Big Mistakes. Maybe That's the Point 🔥Cybersecurity experts say that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be indifferent to how their artificial intelligence tools work.
- Judge Bars Further Changes to George Washington’s Philadelphia House 🔥
- Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance 🔥
- Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects 🔥
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.
- Defeating the Evil Among Us 🔥🔥🔥Only a radical Americanism that fulfills the vision of Jefferson and Lincoln can see us through this dark chapter ...
- Judge blocks Noem's attempt to keep members of Congress out of immigration facilities 🔥🔥U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued a temporary restraining order on Monday morning. Also: For paid subscribers, closing my tabs.
- February 2, 2026 🔥🔥It has been a very long time since we took the night off.
- The Battle of the Bulge Episode 5: “NUTS!” 🔥American troops held on grimly at Bastogne, slowing the German advance toward Antwerp.
- Trump’s Kennedy Center BACKFIRE He renamed it for his ego. Then he got humiliated.
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.
- DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts 🔥🔥🔥🔥A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.
- Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
- New 'Justice AI Tracker' watches how police, courts are using AI | StateScoop† The Evidence for Justice Lab has launched new interactive tool aimed at bringing transparency to how AI is being used across the criminal justice system.
- The conversation (not) - Lawyers, Guns & Money† Well here’s a real pick me up: You know what Kids Today have trouble sitting through, in a college class on films? Akira Mizuta Lippit, a cinema and media-studies professor at the University of Southe...
- US judge signals Musk's xAI may lose lawsuit accusing Altman's OpenAI of stealing trade secrets† A federal judge signaled on Friday she may dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI accusing Sam Altman's rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets to gain an unfair advantage in developing AI technology.
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.
- Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of First Amendment Legalism† 🔥🔥The second Trump administration has unleashed a wave of repressive activity targeting civil society’s most prominent institutions: news media, universities,
- Immigration is Not Invasion In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- Amicus Brief Superficially in Support of Thaler’s Petition for Certiorari (Which I Guess I’m Not Going to File Now) † This is an essay styled as an amicus brief in support of Dr. Richard L. Thaler’s petition for certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Thaler used a generative AI mo ...
- Digitizing the Fisc President Trump’s escalating defiance of statutory spending directives since returning to office has pushed the United States to the brink ...
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 Impacts Skill Formation† 🔥🔥🔥AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...
- HiRO-ACE: Fast and skillful AI emulation and downscaling trained on a 3 km global storm-resolving model† 🔥Kilometer-scale simulations of the atmosphere are an important tool for assessing local weather extremes and climate impacts, but computational expense limits their use to small regions, short periods...
- Perplexity Cannot Always Tell Right from Wrong Perplexity -- a function measuring a model's overall level of "surprise" when encountering a particular output -- has gained significant traction in recent years, both as a loss function and as a simp...
- Probing Neural Topology of Large Language Models† ArXiv link for Probing Neural Topology of Large Language Models ...
- PrivacyScalpel: Enhancing LLM Privacy via Interpretable Feature Intervention with Sparse Autoencoders Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing but also pose significant privacy risks by memorizing and leaking Personally Identifiable Informat...
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)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gambled And Lost Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.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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