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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ The Finite Scroll, an open-source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
- Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin' 🔥🔥🔥Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
- Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made† 🔥🔥🔥Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia ...
- And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to … the Opposite of Trump 🔥🔥The world is watching a split screen: In one panel, humanity sees jurists such as Navi Pillay of South Africa, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize for her decades of struggling for international law, i...
- France promises 3,000 extra teachers in bid to calm student protests 🔥Education minister Edouard Geffray makes the offer after another day of sometimes violent demonstrations by high-school students.
- NHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinics 🔥Brain drain of psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses leaves NHS ‘weaker’, driving patients to seek care elsewhere ...
- Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts 🔥Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns ...
- How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article) 🔥The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
- How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil 🔥The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
- Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Human Rights Lawyer, Wins (Gift Article) 🔥Ms. Pillay has served as a judge in her native South Africa and on international courts investigating war crimes. She led a U.N. panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palest...
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.
- NEWS: Mass Outrage as Trump Cuts Deal With Putin, Personally Approves Public Execution, and Sanctions ICC After Nobel Prize Snub 🔥🔥Hey everyone, what a week.
- Five Questions with Hannah Pingree 🔥🔥The first time I met Hannah Pingree was at a local parade in Freeport, Maine.
- This Is About Much More Than Just Diesel 🔥🔥What Really Matters From The Last Few Hours ...
- NEWS: Trump Loses Nobel Prize He Begged For, ICE Unleashed on California, Shoots Man in New York, UN Calls Trump’s Execution Torture† 🔥Good morning, I’ll be honest with you: today’s newsletter is a heavy one.
- October 9, 2026 Late Wednesday afternoon, Dana Mattioli, Drew Hinshaw, Rebecca Ballhaus, and Joe Parkinson of the Wall Street Journal reported on the tawdry grifting of Kimberly Guilfoyle, former fiancee of Donald Tr...
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.
- AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich 🔥🔥🔥🔥Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this th ...
- Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!† 🔥🔥🔥The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the…
- A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers† 🔥The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
- McDonald's sued over AI tool that recommends prices to US franchisees† 🔥McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees.
- Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History," Unsealed Court Documents Show Newly unredacted court documents reveal damning statements by two AI executives in a landmark case about intellectual property.
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 Lawyer of the Future: Ethics and Identity in the Age of AI The dawn of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a fundamental challenge to the legal profession’s practical function and social identity. We arg ...
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS SPEECH† Artificial intelligence (AI) often looks like speech, functions like speech, and causes the same types of harms as speech. Many aspects of the output of AI shou ...
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.
- Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this pro...
- OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems† 🔥🔥Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors. On Oct. 6, Open…
- Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors 🔥In subliminal learning (SL), a teacher model passes on a trait to a student model by distillation on data semantically unrelated to the trait. So far, SL has been demonstrated for only a limited range...
- Invariant Primes in Lubin-Tate Space and Hovey-Strickland at Every Height Let $H_n$ be the one-dimensional Honda formal group of height $n$ over $\mathbf F_{p^n}$ and let \[ R_n=W(\mathbf F_{p^n})[[u_1,\ldots,u_{n-1}]],\qquad A_n=R_n/(p). \] We prove, for every height $n$ a...
- A gauge-invariant measure for lattice chiral fermions† We nonperturbatively construct a gauge-invariant measure for overlap fermions on four-dimensional Euclidean lattices in a class of nonabelian chiral gauge theories that includes the Standard Model. On...
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)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.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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