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.
- How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US 🔥🔥Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
- Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest 🔥
- Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing A.I. Secrets for Start-Up in China 🔥
- Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’ New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.
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 Epstein Update: Survivor Told FBI Maxwell "Presented" Her to Trump and Made Clear She Was "Available" 🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Major Epstein Files Update: Bombshell Documents Released, I Reviewed Thousands 🔥🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- Today Fulton County, Tomorrow??? 🔥On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant on the Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Operation Center.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 297. 1/30/26 🔥… DOJ released a massive amount of Epstein files documents today.
- Why This Moment Demands Our Attention 🔥A look at how political language in the U.S. is shifting toward labeling fellow Americans as “enemies”—and why that shift matters for all of us.
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.
- Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing A.I. Secrets for Start-Up in China 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- 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.
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.
- Offices and Officers: The Constitutional and Legal Frameworks of Canadian Civil-Military Relations 🔥This chapter examines the complex constitutional and legal frameworks that underpin civilian control of the military and command of the armed forces in Canada.
- The Subjects and Stages of AI Dataset Development: A Framework for Dataset Accountability 🔥There has been increased attention toward the datasets that are used to train and build AI technologies from the computer science and social science research co ...
- 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 ...
- Against First Amendment Traditionalism The First Amendment freedoms of speech and press are under serious strain. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Public Utility for What?: Governing AI Datastructures 🔥Both in the U.S. and in Europe, initiatives for AI governance have focused principally on identifying and mitigating the risks created by AI models and their do ...
- Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment Pretraining corpora contain extensive discourse about AI systems, yet the causal influence of this discourse on downstream alignment remains poorly understood. If prevailing descriptions of AI behavio...
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)
- Leather Panel 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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