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.
- With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Russia’s economy has entered the death zone 🔥🔥Alexandra Prokopenko wonders how much longer it can go on metabolising its own muscle tissue ...
- How to Safeguard the DOJ Against the Next Trump 🔥The Trump administration has taken a wrecking ball to the Department of Justice, dismantling the traditional barrier between prosecutorial independence and partisan politics.
- Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs 🔥
- Opinion | When Will This War End? The Question Is Meaningless. 🔥
- One Olympic sport doesn't allow women. These Games could determine its future 🔥Nordic combined is the only Olympic sport that doesn't allow women to compete, despite athletes' efforts to change that. They say their odds for 2030 hinge on people watching men's events this week.
- Despite Epstein’s Toxicity, Steve Bannon Stood by Him, Texts Indicate 🔥
- Robert Duvall, a Chameleon of an Actor Onscreen and Onstage, Dies at 95 🔥
- UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears 🔥Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks ...
- Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations 🔥We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.
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.
- Major Update: New Mexico Launches First Ever Probe of Epstein Ranch as Trump Falsely Claims he is "Totally Exonerated" 🔥🔥Major developments unfolded this evening in the ongoing controversy surrounding the release of files connected to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, intensifying political tensions and renewi...
- A Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia 🔥🔥“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history,“ Judge Cynthia Rufe wrote.
- The Week Ahead 🔥February 15, 2026 ...
- Context Matters: Trump Administration Summons Secretaries of State 🔥And the context for this one isn't promising.
- February 16, 2026 🔥On February 13 and 14, President Donald J.
- Important News: DOJ Says it is Done Releasing and Unredacting Epstein Files as Trump Defends Nominee Who Espoused White Nationalist Views 🔥Good morning everyone.
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner) 🔥Hey friends, let's jump on live at 9 pm ET for a quick Community Meeting. It took me a few days to put together a video about the 4th and 5th grade children that were seen fleeing in terror from ICE. ...
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.
- He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.† 🔥🔥🔥🔥NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.
- Memorandum & Opinion – #846 in In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-md-03143) – CourtListener.com† 🔥OPINION & ORDER RE: OPENAI'S DELETION OF BOOKS1 AND BOOKS2 DATASETS AND PRIVILEGE RULINGS (ECF NOS. 413, 428, 479, 481, 504, 505, 615, 616) re: (226 in 1:24-cv-00084-SHS-OTW, 413 in 1:25-md-03143-SHS-...
- News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It 🔥Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate …
- ‘A Different Set of Rules’: Drone Footage Shows AI Power Plant Flouting Clean Air Act A Floodlight visual investigation reports that the xAI gas plant in Southaven, Mississippi, continues to use unpermitted gas turbines.
- When National Security Becomes a Shield for Evading AI Accountability Ashwin Prabu and Marlena Wisniak discuss how national security loopholes are testing the EU's AI Act limits and CJEU safeguards.
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.
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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.
- Large Language Model Reasoning Failures 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable reasoning capabilities, achieving impressive results across a wide range of tasks. Despite these advances, significant reasoning failures persist...
- Measuring AI Diffusion: A Population-Normalized Metric for Tracking Global AI Usage Measuring global AI diffusion remains challenging due to a lack of population-normalized, cross-country usage data. We introduce AI User Share, a novel indicator that estimates the share of each count...
- Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions There is much discussion of the false outputs that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok create. In popular terminology, these have been dubbed AI hallucinations. H...
- 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...
- R-Diverse: Mitigating Diversity Illusion in Self-Play LLM Training ArXiv link for R-Diverse: Mitigating Diversity Illusion in Self-Play LLM Training ...
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)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Owen Barcala (@obarcala.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Ms. Rosenberg (@msrosenberg.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- I Used To Snort Cocaine Off Of Popehats (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.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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