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.
- Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 Days 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
- Elon Musk Spends Heavily to Back Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid in Texas 🔥🔥🔥The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
- Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Law 🔥🔥The sanctions were part of a measure that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July.
- Target pensions or welfare, not banks, IMF tells John Healey 🔥🔥Supporters of planned tax, however, say banks were bailed out by taxpayers during the financial crisis and can afford to pay more now ...
- The Birds I Waited 45 Years to See 🔥🔥An evolutionary biologist returns to New Zealand to find the rare birds he dreamed of seeing as a child making an extraordinary comeback.
- Ofgem could force energy suppliers to pay rivals if they lure customers with cheaper deals 🔥Regulator for Great Britain weighs up reintroducing market stabilisation charge to prevent firms going bust ...
- Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Ousted After 5 Days (Gift Article) 🔥Her abrupt departure came after she was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
- Hi, I’m Your New Press Secretary, and It’s My First Time Reading Words Out Loud 🔥A very uncomfortable 14 minutes ...
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.
- Donald Trump Is a Traitor 🔥🔥And in a sane world, he would be removed from office now ...
- Five Questions with Gina Hinojosa, Democratic Candidate for Texas Governor 🔥🔥Earlier this month, Taegan Goddard wrote on Political Wire that “Heading into the final weeks before Election Day on Nov.
- Putting Jack Smith’s Report Back Under Wraps 🔥An Eleventh Circuit ruling stuffs Trump’s Volume II skeletons back in the closet.
- Trump Protects Putin From Graham-Blumenthal 🔥Stop Saying He Is Pivoting ...
- NEWS: Trump “Freakout” Rocks White House, Musk Tries to Buy Texas, Fox News Turns on Zacharia, Musk Exposed in New Documentary 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- BREAKING: Trump Fires New Press Secretary After Just Five Days 🔥Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after less than a week on the job, capping one of the shortest and most chaotic tenures in the history of the role.
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.
- Podcast: Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo 🔥🔥🔥How Raven, previously known as Geospy, can now find which house a photo was taken in; why a judge ruled a Flock search unconstitutional; and the wild AI video in a court case.
- OpenAI, Meta caution US judiciary about risk of 'deepfake' evidence 🔥🔥🔥Tech experts at OpenAI and Meta Platforms warned a federal judicial panel on Thursday that AI-generated "deepfakes" are becoming so sophisticated that it will become increasingly challenging to determine the authenticity of audio and video evidence presented at trial.
- Just the Docs: Eight States Sue OpenAI, Alleging It Misled the Public About ChatGPT’s Safety 🔥Eight state attorneys general file coordinated suits against OpenAI, alleging it concealed ChatGPT’s risks to public safety.
- SpaceX policy manager set to testify as part of NYC Council AI safety investigation 🔥SpaceX is sending its head of global government affairs for AI, Gabriela Castillo Madrid, to testify before the New York City Council.
- 🗣 A Victory for Freedom of Speech Online | EFFector 38.18 No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. EFF and other ...
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 Hidden History of the Second Amendment 🔥🔥Professor Bogus argues that there is strong reason to believe that, in significant part, James Madison drafted the Second Amendment to assure his constituents i ...
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of Internet Exceptionalism† The Supreme Court first examined the relationship between the Internet and the First Amendment in 1997 in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union.
- The President's Duty to Commission Officers The Constitution contains an anti-unitary executive provision in the Commission Clause, which says that the President "shall Commission all the Officers of ...
- The "Nerd Circuit": Creating a New Court for Regulatory Challenges In recent years, opponents of new Executive Branch initiatives have developed a standard playbook for tying up those initiatives in court:
- Can States Throw Away the Key? Critiquing Human Rights Law Approaches to Whole Life Sentences In this article, we examine the jurisprudence on the compatibility of irreducible life sentences with human rights under three rights-protecting instruments: th ...
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.
- Fork-and-Flush: Escaping Idea Basins in Autoresearch Agents† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Autoresearch agents tackle open-ended problems by repeatedly proposing candidate solutions, evaluating them, and using feedback to guide subsequent experiments. We show that independent runs of the sa...
- Expanding AI Literacy: The 5Cs of News Literacy in the Era of Generative AI† 🔥🔥🔥This article adapts the 5Cs framework of news literacy—context, creation, content, circulation, and consumption—to media environments shaped by generative artificial intelligence. We argue that prevai...
- The Non-Binarity of Artificial Intelligence Global Competition: 2018-2025 🔥🔥Technological progress plays a crucial role in international relations. In particular, innovation has long been theorized as instrumental to power transitions. It is therefore unsurprising that the re...
- Fine-Tuning Language Models to Know What They Know 🔥Evaluating true metacognition in Large Language Models (LLMs) is difficult due to biases and heuristics. This paper presents a framework to measure and enhance LLM metacognition while controlling for ...
- When LLM Agents See a Conflict but Still Proceed: Cross-Domain Dependencies in Network Slicing Future AI-native networks are being designed to apply autonomous agents built on large language models (LLMs) in network management through intents. When intents from different domains meet on the same resource, an agent must recognize the cross-domain dependency before taking an irreversible actio…
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)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (promoted)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Joe 👻Boo!🎃 dek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.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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