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.
- Legal veterans lead fightback against Trump’s ‘full-out assault on democracy’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Advocacy groups expand legal challenges and condemn president’s ‘self-serving attempts to take over midterms’
- Opinion | Somewhere, Roy Cohn Is Smiling (Gift Article) 🔥Trump needed only one teacher.
- UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire agrees £1bn takeover by hedge fund 🔥Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’, signs deal amid fears over creeping privatisation of NHS ...
- UK to adopt tougher stance on Israel with illegal settlements trade ban 🔥Ed Miliband to reassert support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution in move likely to draw fierce criticism from US and Israel ...
- Labour’s new powers for water customers are a ‘stitch-up’, say campaigners 🔥Exclusive: Documents reveal water firms have been allowed to advise on how they wish to be held to account ...
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.
- The Supreme Court will choose soon whether Trump can illegally take over elections 🔥🔥🔥Election law expert Rick Hasen said it’s an “easy” question and Trump should lose. Also: A New York health care provider folded to Trump’s anti-trans aims. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- NEWS: Epstein Files Accountability Push Surges, Gas Prices Soar, 25th Amendment Calls Grow Again as White House Posts AI Slop to Distract 🔥Happy Labor Day.
- NEWS: Trump Sparks Major International Incident, Republicans Struggle With Convention Turnout, Far-Right Surges in Germany, and More 🔥I hope you had a great Labor Day.
- JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist 🔥In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
- September 7, 2026 🔥Since yesterday, President Donald J.
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.
- Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement† 🔥🔥🔥The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
- Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic 🔥🔥A federal judge has sided with Anthropic on its claims that the Department of Defense illegally retaliated against Anthropic’s protected speech by labeling the AI company a “supply chain risk.”
- Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement† 🔥🔥The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems.
- Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement† 🔥🔥The Seattle Times and Newsday want AI models built on their works destroyed.
- EXCLUSIVE: US, China gear up for mid-September AI safety talks† 🔥The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed on the discussions told Reuters, as rapidly advancing frontier AI capabil...
- Law schools tell students to put AI away 🔥The technology is being banned from certain classrooms to remove shortcuts that ‘stunt intellectual growth’
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.
- "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse† 🔥If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
- Amicus Brief for Supreme Court, Viramontes et al v Cook County, on Assault Weapon Bans in Cook County and Connecticut† There is no credible evidence that “assault-weapon” bans meaningfully reduce gun homicide or crime overall. Because so few states have enacted such bans, and al ...
- On Not Being "Trapped In Amber"† In United States v. Rahimi, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the meaning of the Constitution is not "trapped in amber." But it is possible to object t ...
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 ...
- Symptom clusters in Long COVID in the UK: prospective community-based cohort study using unsupervised machine learning† 🔥Long COVID is a condition usually defined by persisting symptoms following infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus beyond the acute phase of infection. The condition has a significant impact on healthcare s...
- Identifying AI Web Scrapers Using Canary Tokens† From pre-training to query-time augmentation, web-scraped data helps to improve the quality and contextual relevancy of content generated by large language models (LLMs). However, large-scale web scra...
- Course design in the age of AI ArXiv link for Course design in the age of AI ...
- Our Members - arXiv info | arXiv e-print repository†
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)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.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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