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.
- The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
- ‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously 🔥🔥🔥For all the hysteria over “woke” casting and ahistorical choices, Christopher Nolan’s epic is on track to make $200 million globally during its opening weekend.
- ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown 🔥🔥Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution ...
- Climate Change Contributes to a Smokier World (Gift Article) 🔥Higher temperatures and drought conditions are contributing to more intense wildfires and extending the summer fire season in North America.
- Republicans in North Carolina Try to Reduce Early Voting on Sundays and on Campuses (Gift Article) 🔥Voting-rights activists said the changes are a blatant attempt by G.O.P. leaders to make it harder for Black voters and students, who tend to vote for Democrats, to cast ballots this fall.
- Takeaways From Trump’s Speech Claiming Election Vulnerabilities and China Interference 🔥Documents released by the Trump administration to support the president’s claims did not back up his most aggressive statements.
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: Trump's Documents Disprove Election Claims, Trump Officials Lash Out After Speech Fails, Major Epstein News, Iran Bombings 🔥🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 421. 7/17/26 🔥… Trump gave his big speech last night where he claimed he would unveil proof that our elections were being tampered with and compromised by foreign govts.
- Nine times faster: the EU wants to double electrification by 2040 🔥The Commission has launched its Electrification Action Plan. A 46% target and some serious policy measures.
- Important Friday Night Update: 'Mandatory' Election Changes and Jailing of State Officials, 25th Amendment, Tariffs for Canada Over Smoke 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- July 17, 2026 🔥Yesterday President Donald J.
- I Reviewed the China-Blaming Jan. 5 2021 Power Point. Will Trump’s Speech Rely On It? 🔥Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.
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.
- Bernie and AOC Are Taking On AI. Only One of Them Is Doing It Right.† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Sanders is responding to the deceptive narratives floated by the industry. AOC is talking to experts who really understand how AI works.
- San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores 🔥🔥The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.
- Musk's xAI sues Grok user over sexualized 'deepfakes'† 🔥Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging he misused the company's AI system Grok to ...
- Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans 🔥Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
- Supreme Court's Cox Ruling Reshapes Copyright Fight, With AI Cases Next in Line† The high court's 9-0 Cox v. Sony ruling hands AI developers a ready-made defense against claims that their models are built for infringement.
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 Supreme Court, October 2025 Term Foreword: The Court Against the Courts† 🔥🔥The Supreme Court sits atop a judicial system on which it is deeply dependent. It lacks the capacity to superintend more than a fraction of the cases filed e ...
- Trump's Lies: The Unconstitutionality of Government Propaganda† Government propaganda—the government’s deliberate dissemination of false claims on matters of public interest—has increasingly become a source of concern in the ...
- A Narrow Path Out of Gerrymandergeddon† What would it take to end the present downward spiral of partisan gerrymandering in the United States? This essay, a revised and expanded version of a key ...
- 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 ...
- Amicus Brief of Civil Procedure, Aggregate Litigation, Class Action, Legal Ethics, and Consumer Law Scholars in Opposition to Final Approval of Proposed Class Settlement (Roundup) Seventeen legal scholars present a brief against the proposed class settlement involving the herbicide ROUNDUP, manufactured principally by Monsanto.&
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.
- Paradoxes of Game Theoretic Equilibria and Price of Anarchy† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥For decades, static solution concepts (Nash, Correlated, and Coarse Correlated Equilibria) and the Price of Anarchy (PoA) have formed the bedrock of algorithmic game theory, with no-regret learning pr...
- Tricking an AI system & the Cybercrime Convention In a 2018 paper that was only now brought to my attention, Calo et al. discuss whether “tricking a robot” constitutes hacking. They focus on five scenarios tha ...
- LLM-Driven Approach to Modeling Tool Interoperability in Automotive Domain† Interoperability between heterogeneous modeling tools remains a significant challenge in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), particularly in the automotive domain where multiple modeling languages, as well as defacto standard proprietary and open-source tools coexist. This paper presents an LLM-driven …
- MCPEvol-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Performance Across Dynamic Evolutions of MCP Servers† As Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers emerge as the core infrastructure for connecting LLMs with external tools, existing benchmarks leverage real-world MCP servers to evaluate LLM agents' tool-using capabilities. However, these benchmarks overlook the continuous evolution of tool interfaces and …
- Amplitude-Only FFN Intervention for Tool-Structured LLM Inference Method: Gated Evaluation Protocol, and Cross-Model Empirical Results† ArXiv link for Amplitude-Only FFN Intervention for Tool-Structured LLM Inference Method: Gated Evaluation Protocol, and Cross-Model Empirical Results ...
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Legal C (@legalclaret.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.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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