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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ this open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
- Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Amazon’s Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives 🔥
- Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law 🔥Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds ...
- FBI searches Atlanta election office, chasing Trump 2020 vote fraud claims† 🔥The FBI searched an election office in Georgia's Fulton County outside Atlanta on Wednesday, pursuing U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespr...
- New USA Hockey policy restricts transgender player access to certain programs 🔥
- Move to Seize Ballots Thrusts F.B.I. Into Trump’s Election Conspiracy Claim 🔥
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.
- Minnesota and Elsewhere 🔥🔥🔥Today, more from Judge Schlitz in Minnesota.
- Today Fulton County, Tomorrow??? 🔥🔥On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant on the Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Operation Center.
- January 28, 2026† 🔥Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.
- Major Update: Alarm Bells go Off as Trump Seizes Georgia Ballots While Amplifying Call Labeling Pretti a Domestic Terrorist Good morning.
- Torts Professor Who Botched COVID Prediction Suddenly Expert On Birthright Citizenship - Above the Law The law professor who predicted only 500 Americans would die of COVID is back with another expertise-free take.
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.
- Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
- Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children 🔥🔥🔥Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.
- Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations 🔥Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.
- Class Action Suit Filed Against xAI Over Grok 'Undressing' Controversy† 🔥A new lawsuit against xAI alleges negligence, public nuisance, privacy violations, defamation, and unfair business practices, among other claims.
- ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.
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.
- Antisubjugation and the Equal Protection of the Laws† 🔥This Article challenges 150 years of conventional wisdom regarding whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects people against “private” violence and secures “posi ...
- Rules of the Game: Lessons from Sports to Understand Antitrust Law’s Fairness Foundations Traditionally, courts and practitioners assert that the antitrust laws are simply about protecting competition, not competitors. In essence, these part ...
- Son of Sam, Service-Connected Entitlements, and Disabled Veteran Prisoners American veterans have been over-represented in the United States carceral system since at least the Vietnam War era. Prior to 1980, veterans who were wounded ...
- Court Reform and State Constitutions State legislatures regularly propose and enact laws that seek to shape the substantive outcomes of state courts. These measures, including court-packing efforts ...
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.
- Recursive Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Recursive Language Models ...
- Evaluating LLMs for Dynamic, Multimodal Clinical Decision-Making 🔥🔥In this study, we evaluate the ability of a multimodal LLM to autonomously manage a virtual end-to-end diagnostic workflow. We test an autonomous agent in a ...
- Performance of AI agents based on reasoning language models on ALD process optimization tasks† 🔥In this work we explore the performance and behavior of reasoning large language models to autonomously optimize atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes. In the ALD process optimization task, an agent...
- Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability† ArXiv link for Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability ...
- Joint Diffusion for Universal Hand-Object Grasp Generation ArXiv link for Joint Diffusion for Universal Hand-Object Grasp Generation ...
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)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Everything At The Direction of Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.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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