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.
- E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From Trump in Civil Case 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A federal jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Ms. Carroll. He exhausted his appeals last month, prompting a judge to order that the money be paid.
- Trump Administration Subpoenas Law Firms, Escalating Pressure Campaign 🔥🔥The uneasy truce between the administration and the law firms it cut deals with last year has erupted into a pitched legal battle behind closed doors.
- Keir Starmer becomes first UK PM to receive France’s Légion d’honneur 🔥Exclusive: Emmanuel Macron honours outgoing prime minister for leadership role in supporting Ukraine ...
- ‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says 🔥Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record ...
- Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions (Gift Article) 🔥For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
- Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds 🔥Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report ...
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.
- Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems” 🔥🔥🔥What PIT Crew says about how he is governing, and tech in government ...
- BREAKING: Democrats Block Military Spending Package, Elon Musk Referred for Criminal Prosecution, Trump Pays Carroll, and More 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- July 14, 2026 🔥In August 1870 a U.S.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 419. 7/14/26 … It’s TACO Trump Tuesday again, with Trump walking back his announcement yesterday that the US military was going to take over the Straight of Hormuz and charge a toll for every vessel equal to the a...
- The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Challenge Explained by California AG Rob Bonta ...
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.
- U.S. Publishers Sue Google, Alleging Massive Copyright Infringement Behind Its Gemini AI Service - Publishing Perspectives 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The lawsuit accuses Google of illegally copying millions of works to train its Gemini AI service which, the publishers argue, is already being used to flood the marketplace for books with “AI-generate...
- The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI† 🔥🔥🔥Apple makes several scathing claims against its former employees and OpenAI.
- Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims 🔥Twenty-six employees of Meta Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical le...
- Milwaukee judges banning AI glasses in court as privacy concerns grow 🔥Smart glasses are now used to record everything, but that freedom has stopped in state and local courtrooms across the country.
- Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs Dozens of Meta employees have sued the social media company over claims that it used artificial intelligence tools to tag workers for mass layoffs. The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in the northern district of California, points to Meta’s workforce reduction of about 8,000 employees earlier this year. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The suit alleges that Meta used a “constellation of internal artificial intelligence systems”, including AI performance ratings and keystroke- and activity-monitoring data, to pinpoint who to lay off. Continue reading...
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 Birth of the Minority Rights First Amendment† 🔥 In recent years, First Amendment scholars have demonstrated that the founding generation’s understanding of expressive rights was majoritarian. This conc ...
- The Timing of Federal Civil Appeals: The Basic Rules and How I Teach Them to Law Students† This article examines the law governing timing of federal civil appeals and explains how the relevant rules and case law can be taught to law students. Drawing ...
- Disability and Constitutional Legitimacy Disability classifications can take one of two forms. The more familiar form targets people with disabilities on account of their disability, and harms them. Th ...
- Protecting Perkins: Removal, Supervision, and Article II† Against the backdrop of recent far-reaching executive actions to expand at-will removal from the highest-level officials to the lowest, the Supreme Court’s rece ...
- C-199/24 Legal Newsdesk limits Freedom of Expression under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) C-199/24 Legal Newsdesk arose from the need to determine the position under the GDPR of a database which, in return for payment, provides both crim ...
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.
- Automatically Attacking Software Reverse Engineering AI Agents† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Software tools for reverse engineering executable binary files, such as Ghidra, enable malware analysts to safely conduct robust static analysis without having access to original source code. Coupled ...
- Formal Conjectures: An Open and Evolving Benchmark for Verified Discovery in Mathematics 🔥🔥As automated reasoning systems advance rapidly, there is a growing need for research-level formal mathematical problems to accurately evaluate their capabilities. To address this, we present Formal Co...
- Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning 🔥When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but rather performing a kind of pattern mat...
- The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models† Large language models can represent a variety of personas but typically default to a helpful Assistant identity cultivated during post-training. We investigate the structure of the space of model pers...
- Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models† We conduct experiments with algorithmic pricing agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs). In oligopoly settings, LLM-based pricing agents quickly and autonomously reach supracompetitive prices and...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Legal Carnet (@legalclaret.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.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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