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.
- Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Growing numbers of over-60s facing homelessness, charities warn 🔥🔥Housing crisis reaches UK’s oldest generations as high private rents and lack of social housing hits pensioners ...
- Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s 🔥🔥The president told The Atlantic that Delcy Rodríguez needs to comply with U.S. wishes—or else.
- UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners 🔥People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday ...
- US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover 🔥Danish ambassador posts ‘friendly reminder’ about defence ties after provocative Maga post over territory ...
- Danish PM tells Trump to stop 'threats' against Greenland 🔥Mette Frederiksen said the ...
- A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup 🔥
- Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’ 🔥Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside London, avoiding VAT requirement ...
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.
- Venezuela: The Precedents 🔥🔥🔥And America: The Future ...
- January 3, 2026 🔥🔥Today was the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to submit to Congress a written justification for any documents from the Epstein files that the department had redacted or withheld.
- The FAFO Boys Are About to Find Out 🔥The US is being run by a bunch of guys from the back of high school detention room ...
- Oil, Oil Toil and Trouble John McCain said: "Whoever controls oil controls much more than oil."
- Live with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer Understanding what's happening with Venezuela with President Biden's National Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor ...
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.
- Disinformation Floods Social Media After Nicolás Maduro's Capture† 🔥🔥From seemingly AI-generated videos to the recirculation of old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela.
- Paramount Press Express | “60 MINUTES” LISTINGS FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 4† 🔥🔥Airs 7:30-8:30 PM, ET/ 7:00-8:00 PT, After NFL Football, on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+ HERE COME THE HUMANOIDS – For decades, engineers h ...
- Alaska's court system built an AI chatbot. It didn’t go smoothly. A yearlong effort to build an AI probate assistant reveals the limits of government chatbot development.
- Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors† When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
- Addressing Computer-Generated Child Sex Abuse Imagery: Legal Framework and Policy Implications Computer-generated child sex abuse imagery poses significant challenges to law enforcement, including constitutional limits on criminal prosecutions.
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.
- The Supreme Court's (Self-Defeating) Supremacy 🔥🔥This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency ap ...
- Every True Story Ends in Death: How the Roberts Court Killed Originalism Although there are at least six justices on the Roberts Court who identify as strong or moderate originalists, none of them exercise judicial review in an origi ...
- The Sovereignty of Personal Jurisdiction† We are in a heyday of personal jurisdiction at the Supreme Court. Yet amidst its many recent decisions in this area, the Court has not managed to ...
- THE GLOBAL LEVIATHAN'S LAW STICK: Judicial Imperialism and "State Terror" as Extraterritorial Jurisdiction† The twenty-first-century international relations system is witnessing a radical rupture from the classical Westphalian understanding of sovereignty. At the cent ...
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.
- DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning† 🔥🔥We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning…
- Can LLMs Estimate Student Struggles? Human-AI Difficulty Alignment with Proficiency Simulation for Item Difficulty Prediction Accurate estimation of item (question or task) difficulty is critical for educational assessment but suffers from the cold start problem. While Large Language Models demonstrate superhuman problem-sol...
- Recursive Language Models ArXiv link for Recursive Language Models ...
- DermaVQA-DAS: Dermatology Assessment Schema (DAS) & Datasets for Closed-Ended Question Answering & Segmentation in Patient-Generated Dermatology Images ArXiv link for DermaVQA-DAS: Dermatology Assessment Schema (DAS) & Datasets for Closed-Ended Question Answering & Segmentation in Patient-Generated Dermatology Images ...
- Distribution-Dependent Rates for Multi-Distribution Learning ArXiv link for Distribution-Dependent Rates for Multi-Distribution Learning ...
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)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@rmcarpiano.medsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com) (promoted)
- Ordinary Rendition (@renderjudgment.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bob Mann (@robertmannbooks.com) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr Emma L Briant (@emma-briant.co.uk) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nobody Can Stop Popehat (@kenwhite.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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