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.
- Opinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start. (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.
- Katie Zacharia calls herself a lawyer. Legal experts aren’t sure. 🔥🔥There’s no evidence the new White House press secretary was admitted to practice law in the United States.
- Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr 🔥🔥Russian meddling probably didn’t affect the referendum result – but the Kremlin’s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr ...
- Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns as Ambassador to Greece (Gift Article) 🔥Ms. Guilfoyle was asked to quit by the White House after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off a credit card.
- CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades 🔥Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
- El-Sayed, Releasing His Platform on A.I., Calls It an ‘Existential Crisis’ 🔥Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan is the first Democrat running in a battleground Senate race to publicly call for a pause on artificial intelligence development.
- BBC asks judge to force Trump to sit for deposition as part of his $10bn lawsuit 🔥BBC asks US federal judge to compel Trump’s lawyers to schedule deposition after his team canceled initial session ...
- MI5 chief Ken McCallum confirms Russia did interfere in Brexit referendum but says it had little impact – UK politics live 🔥He argued there was no evidence to suggest the result of the Brexit vote had been swayed as a result of the effort ...
- House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife ministers to Hill staffers, but nonprofit funding is a mystery 🔥Kelly Johnson’s counseling services are the centerpiece of an organization that does not disclose its donors.
- Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot 🔥Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot ...
- Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says 🔥Move from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last year ...
- Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return 🔥Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
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.
- It’s More Than Just a Little Routine Maintenance 🔥🔥The administration flouted a judge’s order and cut down more than 400 trees on the East Potomac Golf Course over the weekend.
- October 13, 2026 🔥This afternoon, the President of the United States posted two videos of lions and tigers attacking humans.
- NEWS: ‘A Disaster’—New Press Secretary Bombs First Briefing, Republicans Abandon Their Own Incumbents, Paxton Partied With Fugitives 🔥Hey everyone, happy Tuesday.
- NEWS: Trump’s Disturbing Truth Social Spree Alarms Even MAGA, Press Secretary’s “Brutal” Debut Has Her on Thin Ice, and Conspiracies 🔥Hey everyone, happy Tuesday evening.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 480. 10/13/26 🔥… An embarrassing debut for new WH press secretary Katie Zacharia today in her first press conference.
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 companion startup Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing costs and litigation 🔥🔥🔥The company said the platform became "costly to develop and grow," in Monday filings to the Delaware District bankruptcy court.
- When AI is subject to less regulation than your fridge, something is startlingly wrong | Richard Hermer 🔥🔥Let’s be clear: the risk to humanity is unprecedented. Without an urgent public debate and robust use of international law, we will lose control of the future, says Labour life peer Richard Hermer ...
- I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine† 🔥🔥My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.”
- The Fight for Serious AI Regulation Just Won a Big Victory in Massachusetts† 🔥🔥After his primary win, Ed Markey says he’s ready to take on “the criminal enterprises” of Big Tech.
- Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight'† 🔥🔥"Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
- AI Governance Is Being Decided Now, and the Public Isn’t in the Room† 🔥Companies have an opportunity to make good on their stated commitment to democratic AI governance, Mackenzie Austin.
- Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet† 🔥The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
- The Tragedy of AI Coding 🔥AI-assisted software development could have liberated programmers. Instead, it has become the latest way for Big Tech to confine us.
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoes driverless rideshare ordinance 🔥Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed an ordinance passed by the City Council to regulate autonomous rideshare vehicles.
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 Art Critics Won't Save You from the Robots: Confronting A.I. as Misappropriation Artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems require a wealth of training data, which is often harvested from creators without their consent, and then used to train s ...
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.
- Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...
- Who Can Say No? Control, Accountability and the Pace of Frontier AI† 🔥In September 2026, the leaders of the largest frontier AI laboratories said in public that the pace of capability improvement is too fast and that none of them can slow down alone, and agents under ev...
- Has LLM Screening Performance Stalled in Software Engineering Systematic Reviews?† Screening in systematic reviews (SRs) is manual and time-consuming. Prior work has explored large language models (LLMs) for automating this step, but LLMs are evolving rapidly, so earlier performance...
- Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM... When retrieved evidence contradicts an agent's prior beliefs, does it revise its answer, acknowledge uncertainty, or persist with an incorrect conclusion? Existing evaluations of agentic systems...
- STAIR (STructure Aware Information Retriever): A novel dataset and LLM based retriever for document structure augmentation† Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a key component for generating accurate and hallucination free answers using Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are improving at handling long context, but stil...
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 Dudek (@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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