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 Subpoena Detective: A Dispatch from the Times Hearing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥On jets, journalism, and a judge ...
- ‘Shameful’: Pentagon accused of cover-up over US military casualties in Iran war 🔥🔥🔥No press briefing has been held for months, as the defence department belatedly or inaccurately releases figures ...
- A 12-Year-Old Went to Buy a Ball. He Was Killed by a Stray Bullet. (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥Jacob Freytes, the son of a retired detective sergeant, died near his Bronx home after he was struck by the bullet from a gun fired during a brawl, law enforcement officials said.
- World Cup: Uefa furious at Fifa plan for private investment in tournament 🔥🔥Uefa and Prime Minister Andy Burnham criticise proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup.
- The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’ 🔥🔥Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives ...
- This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead. 🔥🔥Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...
- Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him 🔥
- Led By Donkeys wins compensation over seizure of Gaza protest banner 🔥Waste firm Veolia pays £27k after ‘Yes It’s A Genocide’ banner taken by Greater London Authority was destroyed ...
- FIFA plans to sell a stake in the World Cup: How much for and why is Gianni Infantino doing it? 🔥The proposal has been widely criticized, with European soccer's governing body UEFA saying it "crosses a line."
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.
- Gov. Beshear Calls On McConnell To Provide Proof Of His Ability To Serve 🔥🔥🔥
- Austin Police Murdered a 17 Year Old Black Child Over a Water Bottle. 🔥🔥They continued shooting Anthoneil after his motionless body was already on the floor.
- July 28, 2026 🔥Turning it over to Buddy tonight.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 428. 7/28/26 🔥… Mike Johnson said he is very confident about Republican chances in the midterms because he’s formed a prayer group for it and is certain that God wants them to win: “This is a God thing.
- Important Update: Blanche's Confirmation in Major Doubt, Big McConnell Update, AI Companies Buy and Destroy Books, and More 🔥Good evening, everyone.
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.
- Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
- Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps 🔥🔥Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota ...
- Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords? In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
- AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop† ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
- Elon Musk and X notch court win against California deepfake law One of the country’s strictest bans on election deepfakes was defeated by a challenge from the tech billionaire.
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.
- Digital Policing after Chatrie† 🔥🔥Chatrie v. United States is a consequential Fourth Amendment opinion, and for Supreme Court watchers a surprising one in its scope ...
- A Faithful Execution Exception to Slaughter† 🔥In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court held that Article II permits a President to remove principal officers at will. Ostensibly, the removal power allows the ...
- Dismantling Equality Rights Through "Biological-Sex" Talk 🔥In rejecting the sex-discrimination claims of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care in United States v. Skrmetti (2025) and transgende ...
- The State Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning Exclusionary zoning is the biggest cause of the housing crisis besetting many parts of the United States. This Article shows how state constitutions can ...
- 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 ...
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.
- Randomness in large language models: What researchers need to know (and report)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for research. Typical use cases are classifications, annotations, information extraction, an ...
- Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories† 🔥🔥LLM-generated stories are a popular use case, but they show very low variability. We sample 20,000 total stories from four current models using five prompts. We find that 11 words occur in 88.3% of ge...
- Persuasion Index: A Theory-Guided Framework for Persuasion Analysis 🔥Identifying persuasive rhetorical cues is critical across domains, from detecting information manipulation and improving AI safety to advancing public health communication. We propose Persuasion Index...
- Lost in Context: Addressing Context Anxiety in Large Language Models 🔥ArXiv link for Lost in Context: Addressing Context Anxiety in Large Language Models ...
- From peer review nuances to best practices This report studies three nuances in peer review data: paper version, score version, and input format. We characterize how the variants differ, and measure their impact on downstream tasks. Based on o...
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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