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.
- Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach ...
- July was hottest month ever recorded in US as heatwaves scorched country 🔥🔥🔥Scientists have made clear that the elevated heat in the US was being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis ...
- Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat 🔥🔥The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
- Arron Banks ‘hired private detective’ to look into journalist who investigated Reform UK 🔥🔥Asked whether he targeted reporter who investigated party finances, Brexit campaigner says: ‘When you live by the sword, you die by the sword’
- Michigan Senate Candidate, a Former Trump Critic, Shifts Toward Election Skepticism (Gift Article) 🔥🔥Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, has suggested that further scrutiny of the 2020 election was warranted and that voting irregularities sank his first Senate bid two years ago.
- SEC Exempts Data-Center Bonds From Key Securitization Rules 🔥🔥The Securities and Exchange Commission has made it easier for data center owners to sell asset-backed securities, potentially opening the door for more debt sales as tech firms scour Wall Street for w...
- Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots 🔥🔥The American Academy of Pediatrics calls the recommendation on measles, mumps and rubella shots "dangerous".
- Thames Water’s £1m payout to finance chief is ‘unacceptable’, says government department 🔥Utility firm’s payment criticised by Defra and campaign groups, with some urging Andy Burnham to nationalise it ...
- Trump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shots 🔥Order also recommends all shots be given at separate medical visits though cost of doing them together is lower ...
- Why I Quit the Tenure Track 🔥The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia ...
- ‘National priority’ to equip UK firefighters amid growing wildfire threat 🔥Exclusive: FBU calls for more funding as ‘unprecedented summer’ puts rising demands on already stretched crews ...
- The Campaign Tactics Helping Progressives Win Primaries Ahead of the 2026 Midterms (Gift Article) 🔥Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed.
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.
- Zorro Ranch, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump's Justice Department 🔥🔥Last week, New Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued DOJ for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that he says the Justice Department has been withholding.
- Reports of Trump's catering-truck transfer in Turkey raise big questions about the recent NYT subpoenas 🔥🔥“So, you’re saying there wasn’t a security threat,” a reporter asked on July 8. “No, no, why would there be,” Trump replied. Two days later, DOJ went after the reporters who looked into the story.
- The Week Ahead 🔥August 9, 2026 ...
- A candidate who quit the race still beat Trump's pick in a GOP primary — because of his name 🔥A real life audit study!
- NEWS: Millions Funneled to Trump as Accounts Get Closed Over Money Laundering Fears, Another Major Taylor Farms Recall 🔥Good morning everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 437. 8/10/26 🔥… Trump issued an executive order today seeking to mandate one of the conspiracies that he has held for decades which began shortly after Barron was born - that childhood vaccines cause autism.
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.
- Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”† 🔥🔥🔥Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...
- Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations 🔥🔥🔥Li Linlin cried for days after losing her virtual boyfriend. She exchanged about 700,000 words with him over two years and never got to say goodbye when he was eliminated by ByteDance, the developer of TikTok.
- Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack† 🔥The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- Brazil's Electoral Court Wants Platform Compliance Plans. Can It Enforce Them?† 🔥Platforms will have to provide comprehensive and structured information on various phenomena related to elections, writes Laís Martins.
- Immigration as a Test Case for Executive AI Governance DHS deploys AI in immigration enforcement largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed, a preview of how AI could reshape executive power.
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.
- What is the Business of the Warren Court?† 🔥Today's Supreme Court is conservative whereas the Warren Court was liberal. Yet the substantive principles underlying these two Courts are more compatible than ...
- No legal standards for adjudicating the proportionality of primary social security law: R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] UKSC 42 🔥Case note commenting on the UK Supreme Court's recent judgment in R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025]
- Incomplete Innovation and the Premature Disruption of Legal Services† In this Article, I argue that disruption of legal services will likely happen before the creative, bespoke services that are characteristic of today’s establish ...
- Framing Religious Constitutionalism Scholarship considering Christian, Islamic, or other forms of religious constitutionalism has tended to focus on harmonizing constitutional texts with tradition ...
- Is the Right of Parents to Direct Their Children's Education "Deeply Rooted" in our "History and Tradition"? In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protects unenumerated rights that are "deeply rooted ...
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.
- People construct simplified mental representations to plan† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because plans...
- The Environmental Impacts of Machine Learning Training Keep Rising Evidencing Rebound Effect† 🔥🔥🔥Recent Machine Learning (ML) approaches have shown increased performance on benchmarks but at the cost of escalating computational demands. Hardware, algorithmic and carbon optimizations have been pro...
- An Early Warning of Emerging Biosecurity Risks in Frontier LLMs† 🔥🔥Frontier large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into scientific workflows, yet their growing biological capabilities may outpace current safeguards. To assess the biological risks of...
- The crisis of AI-generated mathematics† 🔥In this essay, I present the case for total opposition to the use of artificial intelligence in mathematics. I offer proposals for how individuals, departments, journals, and institutions can act in c...
- Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning† 🔥ArXiv link for Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning ...
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)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.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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