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.
- Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting 🔥🔥🔥🔥The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
- The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- R.N.C. Enters 2026 With Nearly $100 Million Edge on D.N.C. 🔥🔥
- ‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company† 🔥🔥$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
- Federal Authorities Mapped Out Epstein’s Inner Circle 🔥
- Opinion | This Is Not a Drill 🔥
- Opinion | Liam Ramos Is Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All. 🔥
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.
- Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? 🔥🔥🔥🔥Nazi Lies in Vance's America ...
- The Week Ahead 🔥February 1, 2026 ...
- Important Update: Articles of Impeachment Drafted for Pam Bondi, More Major Epstein Documents, and the CBP Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti Revealed Good evening, everyone.
- Major Update: Trump Claims Epstein Files "Absolve" Him, DOJ Caught Violating the law, Major Trump Family Corruption Scheme Exposed Good afternoon, everyone.
- February 1, 2026 On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
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.
- DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts 🔥🔥🔥🔥A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.
- California Senate passes bill regulating lawyers' use of AI A bill passed on Thursday by the California Senate would require lawyers in the state to verify the accuracy of all materials produced using artificial intelligence, including case citations and other information in court filings.
- New 'Justice AI Tracker' watches how police, courts are using AI | StateScoop The Evidence for Justice Lab has launched new interactive tool aimed at bringing transparency to how AI is being used across the criminal justice system.
- The conversation (not) - Lawyers, Guns & Money Well here’s a real pick me up: You know what Kids Today have trouble sitting through, in a college class on films? Akira Mizuta Lippit, a cinema and media-studies professor at the University of Southe...
- US judge signals Musk's xAI may lose lawsuit accusing Altman's OpenAI of stealing trade secrets A federal judge signaled on Friday she may dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI accusing Sam Altman's rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets to gain an unfair advantage in developing AI technology.
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.
- Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of First Amendment Legalism 🔥🔥The second Trump administration has unleashed a wave of repressive activity targeting civil society’s most prominent institutions: news media, universities,
- 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.
- Amicus Brief Superficially in Support of Thaler’s Petition for Certiorari (Which I Guess I’m Not Going to File Now) † This is an essay styled as an amicus brief in support of Dr. Richard L. Thaler’s petition for certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Thaler used a generative AI mo ...
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...
- HiRO-ACE: Fast and skillful AI emulation and downscaling trained on a 3 km global storm-resolving model† 🔥Kilometer-scale simulations of the atmosphere are an important tool for assessing local weather extremes and climate impacts, but computational expense limits their use to small regions, short periods...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Probing Neural Topology of Large Language Models† ArXiv link for Probing Neural Topology of Large Language 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)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Colin Murray (@colinmurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leather Panel Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.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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