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.
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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed 
powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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.
- Trump Loses Bid to Block BBC Subpoenas in $10 Billion Lawsuit 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A judge denied President Donald Trump’s attempt to block dozens of subpoenas sent to members of his inner circle by the British Broadcasting Corp. as part of its defense against his $10 billion defama...
- The Pentagon, sinking billions into Iran war, is quickly running short on cash 🔥🔥With some funds set to dry up within weeks, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to press lawmakers Tuesday to address the increasingly urgent shortfall.
- JP Morgan boss warns of ‘consequences’ if Burnham taxes banks 🔥🔥Higher taxes on sector could threaten plan for £3bn headquarters in London, says Jamie Dimon ...
- How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Elder Care (Gift Article) 🔥🔥Retirement communities already grappling with labor shortages are being forced to terminate caregivers at a time when more Americans are living longer.
- Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for 10.1m customers 🔥The water company said the three heatwaves contributed to the ban.
- Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey, Governor Says 🔥A 2023 software glitch at the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens being registered to vote during the Murphy administration, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced.
- 'I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentials 🔥As Andy Burnham promises “breathing space” for households, millions are unable to buy items such as clothing, heating and food.
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.
- Todd Blanche's Bad, Inadequate Answers 🔥🔥🔥Along with a Senate confirmation hearing, it’s customary for nominees to submit written answers to questions asked of them by the senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee considering their nominatio...
- The Desire for Terror 🔥🔥And the defense of democracy ...
- Important Tuesday News Update—I am Boycotting the White House Correspondents Do-Over Good evening, everyone.
- July 21, 2026 The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured some of the 440,000 Americans from Arizona alone who have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the Republicans’ On...
- Why crows sunbathe With its bill agape, I watch as the crow fans out awkwardly across the cedar shingles. Pressing the camera to my face I snap a couple photos, pleased to finally capture on film a moment I so often …
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.
- The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets† 🔥🔥🔥🔥A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
- Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions – #680 in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., 4:24-cv-05417) – CourtListener.com† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions ...
- “Privacy for Profits”: ACLU Warns Flock Building a Nationwide Surveillance Network 🔥The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-so...
- Bessent Says US Will Scrutinize Chinese AI Models for IP Theft 🔥Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will carefully examine open source artificial intelligence models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, amid concerns that a new wave of low...
- AI and the Commercial Data Loophole The Pentagon’s access to commercial LLMs give it a powerful surveillance tool that could be turned on Americans.
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.
- Debating Social Rights with Conor Gearty 🔥This short piece is forthcoming as part of a special issue of the European Human Rights Law Review in honour of Conor Gearty (1957-2025). It discusses th ...
- Generative Gap Filling Contract law polices a line between interpretation, the recovery of meaning a text already holds, and gap filling, the supply of terms the text lacks. The bound ...
- Lowering Drug Prices by Reviving Skinny Labels and Patent Challenges and Addressing Patent Thickets† In this testimony to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee,
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.
- AI for fossil fuel production: Can 'enabled emissions' be contested under EU law?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Legal and policy discussions on the environmental impacts of AI have drawn attention to the industry's climate impacts, pollution and resource consumption. In c ...
- Excessive Custom Xbrl Tag Usage in 10-K Filings and Sec Oversight† 🔥🔥🔥We conduct an in-depth examination of excessive custom XBRL tag usage in 10-K filings among U.S. firms. We discuss why some firms are prone to creating cu ...
- The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥An emerging method to cheaply improve a weaker language model is to finetune it on outputs from a stronger model, such as a proprietary system like ChatGPT (e.g., Alpaca, Self-Instruct, and others). T...
- A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics† 🔥🔥A Lie group is an old mathematical abstract object dating back to the XIX century, when mathematician Sophus Lie laid the foundations of the theory of continuous transformation groups. As it often hap...
- Octopus v3: Technical Report for On-device Sub-billion Multimodal AI Agent 🔥ArXiv link for Octopus v3: Technical Report for On-device Sub-billion Multimodal AI Agent ...
- Making Agent-Mediated Contributions Governable: A Project-Level Governance Manifest for Open-Source AI Collaboration† 🔥Generative AI and coding agents are intensifying a central governance tension in open-source software (OSS): they scale contribution generation faster than maintainers can assess risk, evidence, and accountability. Existing responses improve agent-readability and traceability, but project rules mus…
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Legal C (@legalclaret.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.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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