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.
- ‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
- Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK 🔥🔥Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.
- At Correspondents’ Dinner, a Rambling Trump Hurls Insults 🔥🔥President Trump gave the keynote speech as relations between his administration and the press continue to deteriorate.
- Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article) 🔥Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
- Public Health Needs MAHA 🔥The field must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.
- Trump Holds Off on Major War Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns (Gift Article) 🔥Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East.
- Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled. (Gift Article) 🔥Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage.
- Brazil denies visas to U.S. delegation aiming to impugn election system, officials say 🔥The U.S. delegation had planned to visit the Brazilian capital and cast doubt on the integrity of the voting system before a presidential election this fall, officials said.
- Houthis claim attack on Saudi oil refinery as Iran war widens to Red Sea 🔥The strikes by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels could add to the pressure on global oil markets on top of disruptions caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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.
- Nixon's Tapes Were Never His To Hide 🔥🔥🔥🔥In 1971, then-President Richard Nixon secretly installed a voice-activated recording system throughout the White House.
- Big Update: DOJ Ordered to Hand Over Major, Unredacted Epstein Files, Russia Increases Help to Iran, AI Jailbreak, McConnell News, and More 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- NEWS: Trump's WHCD Speech Bombs, More Epstein Ties Emerge as he is Confronted with the Truth, Trump Rewrites Smithsonian History Good morning, everyone.
- Will Todd Blanche Get Confirmed? Ask Stanley Milgram What the psychology behind "just following orders" tells us about changing course once you've already started down the wrong path.
- July 25, 2026 It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
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 Companies Are Funding the AGs Investigating Them† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others sent a wave of donations to both parties’ attorney general groups as AGs move to regula ...
- 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.
- “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...
- 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.
- Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law A recently enacted New York law mandates that companies disclose when an ad includes a "synthetic performer" in place of a human actor.
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 ...
- Lunatics, Idiots, Paupers and Negro Seamen: Immigration Federalism in the Early American State† Why did it take the U.S. national government until 1882 to gain control over immigration policies from the states, and what does this situation say about the st ...
- How to Reject a Law Review Article† Every submission season, law reviews reject thousands of articles. In doing so, they rely on rejection notification templates containing misleading tropes ...
- 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 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 ...
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 systems out-persuade expert humans† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has...
- Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial we...
- 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...
- 3D-Aware VLMs with Implicit and Explicit Geometries† ArXiv link for 3D-Aware VLMs with Implicit and Explicit Geometries ...
- GuardianAgentBench: Where Agents Fail and How to Guard Them ArXiv link for GuardianAgentBench: Where Agents Fail and How to Guard Them ...
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)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- evacide (@evacide.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (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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