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 Administration Drops Subpoena Demanding List of Jews From Penn (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥For more than a year, the Trump administration pressed the university for records about antisemitism complaints and a list of campus groups involved with Judaism.
- US Calls Haiti a Death Trap While Planning for Mass Deportations 🔥🔥🔥Haiti remains mired in a lawless miasma even as the US is threatening to force hundreds of thousands of people who fled the Caribbean nation back home, after the Supreme Court ruled that President Don...
- Gary Lineker among millionaires asking Andy Burnham to tax them more 🔥🔥🔥A group including the former England footballer write to the new PM telling him "we can afford it".
- Thames Water lenders offer 'golden share' to head off nationalisation† 🔥🔥The water supplier's lenders are trying to prevent the company from being taken over by the Burnham government ...
- Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar 🔥🔥Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.
- Thousands flee wildfires in France and Spain as temperatures reach extreme levels in southern Europe 🔥🔥France asks EU for help while Spain declares national emergency around Madrid, as marine heatwave sees parts of Mediterranean Sea 5C hotter than normal ...
- Warsh Leaves Bond Traders in the Dark on Next Week’s Rate Move 🔥🔥The Kevin Warsh Fed is already putting its stamp on financial markets: Just days before the central bank’s next meeting, traders are still split on whether it’s going to raise interest rates or not.
- Democratic think tank suggests accommodating restrictions on this trans issue 🔥The Center for American Progress, an influential Democratic policy group, urged Democrats to accept some restrictions on transgender athletes.
- Alarm over hospital lung admissions for children in England’s poorest postcodes 🔥Exclusive: Analysis of NHS England data reveals stark impact of air pollution in deprived areas ...
- House passes Pentagon funding bill and a blueprint to unlock new dollars for Iran war 🔥Republicans passed more than $1 trillion for the Pentagon alongside a budget blueprint to fund the war with Iran and implement provisions of President Trump's election overhaul bill.
- U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists (Gift Article) 🔥A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
- France orders total evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads 🔥‘Intense and highly unpredictable’ blaze forces more than 40,000 people to flee popular holiday spot ...
- Streeting says Burnham government will prioritise military over other spending 🔥Defence secretary says he will give arms industry ‘clarity and confidence’ in contrast to row preceding Starmer’s exit ...
- Take Centrica’s gas storage warning seriously – Britain still needs secure supplies | Nils Pratley 🔥One task awaiting new energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is devising a plan to avoid a crisis by the end of the decade ...
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.
- Jack Smith and GOP Shame(lessness) 🔥🔥Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, sent a referral to DOJ, asking them to bring charges against former Special Counsel Jack Smith.
- Thursday was the worst day for DOJ. So far. 🔥🔥DOJ withdrew its subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters, but the hearing that preceded that decision showed just how degraded DOJ has become.
- "We Are America" 🔥We can each make change, one person at a time.
- NEWS: I Visited Mitch McConnell's Hospital as Republicans Demand Answers, Trump Announces Major Tariffs, Epstein News 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- July 23, 2026 🔥I have been thinking lately about taxes and war and citizens and what the government should do for its people.
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.
- A Stenographer Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says 🔥🔥🔥🔥A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter than it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.
- OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT’s ‘Dangerous’ Health Advice† 🔥🔥The case appears to be the first to argue that a chatbot’s advice harmed someone seeking guidance about a medical condition.
- For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark 🔥🔥MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.
- AI and Warrantless Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 🔥The use of LLMs for foreign intelligence surveillance erodes the rules put in place to safeguard Americans' civil liberties.
- Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its C...
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.
- Does Holding Anti-Democratic Leaders Accountable Backfire? Evidence from Bolsonaro's Arrest in Brazil 🔥🔥Whether holding anti-democratic leaders accountable strengthens or weakens democracy remains one of the unresolved questions in contemporary debates about democ ...
- Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses† We study worker noncompete clauses in a large field experiment with two finance firms. Across ~14,000 job offers to freelan ...
- 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 ...
- How to Reject a Law Review Article Every submission season, law reviews reject thousands of submissions. In doing so, they rely on rejection notification templates containing misleading tro ...
- The Chadha Presidency Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the ans ...
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.
- Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Recent work claims that large language models display emergent abilities, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities intriguin...
- LLMs can hide text in other text of the same length† 🔥🔥🔥A meaningful text can be hidden inside another, completely different yet still coherent and plausible, text of the same length. For example, a tweet containing a harsh political critique could be embe...
- The Ethics of Autonomous AI Agents for Offensive Security 🔥LLM-driven autonomous agents are reshaping offensive security. Unlike traditional penetration-testing tooling -- deterministic, narrowly scoped, and operated by trained practitioners -- agentic securi...
- AI Entanglement: Accounting for dependencies in general-purpose AI policy, regulation, and practice AI artifacts like models, datasets, and web platforms increasingly help build other AI artifacts. Developers rely on existing models to generat ...
- Harness Engineering for LLM-Driven GPU Kernel Generation ArXiv link for Harness Engineering for LLM-Driven GPU Kernel Generation ...
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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