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.
- Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth 🔥🔥
- Billionaires’ Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy 🔥Tax avoidance by the superwealthy is an economic issue as well as a political one.
- Exclusive | The Accomplice Who Was Going to Testify Against Jeffrey Epstein—Then Went Dark Model scout Jean-Luc Brunel was negotiating to provide prosecutors with evidence against the sex offender in 2016 but ultimately backed out.
- Justice Dept. Lawyer Is Found in Contempt by Federal Judge
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.
- Stephen Colbert and the First Amendment 🔥🔥As if CBS hasn’t drawn enough fire for tampering with 60 Minutes’ journalistic integrity, on Monday, Stephen Colbert shared that he was told by the network’s lawyers that he couldn’t have Texas Democr...
- Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo 🔥Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.
- Major Update: Republicans Fail to Show up to Epstein Co-Conspirator Deposition as Boycott of Trump's State of the Union Planned Good evening everyone.
- DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.
- February 18, 2026 Today Illinois governor J.B.
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.
- Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks’† 🔥🔥And now, the end is near...
- Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die 🔥🔥Meta was recently granted a patent for tech to keep your social media accounts running using AI if you take a break or die.
- As Musk’s xAI Data Centers Encroach on Southaven, North Mississippi Residents Push Back 🔥As Elon Musk’s xAI expands its data centers into Southaven, Mississippi, residents are decrying noise pollution and raising concerns over emissions.
- ‘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.
- Zuckerberg testifies at trial accusing social media firms of addicting kids to their platforms Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions about young people’s use of Instagram, his congressional testimony and internal advice he’s received to be “authentic” and not “robotic.”
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.
- Why Are Executions Becoming Crueler?† Since the modern death penalty era, this country’s six execution methods have become crueler over time.
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.
- LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also to help them define, ...
- 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...
- TreeWriter: AI-Assisted Hierarchical Planning and Writing for Long-Form Documents† 🔥Long documents pose many challenges to current intelligent writing systems. These include maintaining consistency across sections, sustaining efficient planning and writing as documents become more co...
- Implicit Bias in LLMs for Transgender Populations† ArXiv link for Implicit Bias in LLMs for Transgender Populations ...
- Human-like Affective Cognition in Foundation Models ArXiv link for Human-like Affective Cognition in Foundation Models ...
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)
- Okay Hat (@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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