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.
- Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Neo-fascist group Patriot Front parades Confederate flag in Washington DC on Fourth of July 🔥🔥🔥Hundreds of masked members of the white supremacist organization marched and chanted in the US capital ...
- Severn Trent doubles CEO reward plan to £3.1m despite anger over water pay 🔥🔥🔥Increase to long-term incentive plan means James Jesic could significantly outearn predecessor Liv Garfield ...
- Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project 🔥🔥Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform ...
- Elon Musk promotes ‘anti-migrant’ Armie Hammer film with free download on X 🔥🔥Citizen Vigilante, which follows a businessman taking bloody revenge on immigrant criminals, was posted by the tech trillionaire in the wake of damning reviews ...
- Celtic nations begin to plan for breakup of UK in event of Reform election win 🔥Politicians brace for constitutional turmoil if Nigel Farage’s party end up in government – or even as a strong opposition ...
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.
- On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition 🔥🔥🔥With friends, on video, to recall and to rebel ...
- Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders 🔥The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present.
- The Supreme Court Keeps Inviting Trump to Get More Ambitious 🔥The justices don’t give Trump everything he wants. But they are very comfortable giving him a lot.
- It's Our Country 🔥Happy Fourth of July.
- America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up 🔥Once you understand the moral psychology of America's immaturity, everything about America's 250th birthday makes sense.
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.
- Is This The New Normal? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥YouTube video by Rhett Shull ...
- A Judicial Wake-Up Call on Government by AI† 🔥🔥As agencies craft best practices for LLM use, the Learned Societies decision should serve as a handbook of what not to do, writes Jordan Ascher.
- Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones† 🔥This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots, we have precious little ...
- It reads your email, files your claims, and never asks permission — The privacy law of AI agents† Sara H. Jodka of Dickinson Wright PLLC discusses the flow of information through AI agents often without human sign-off and the privacy risks and compliance issues raised.
- Power to the People Modernizing our aging energy grid will be a high-voltage test for America's 250-year-old democracy.
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.
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing† 🔥“Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
- Mapping Reversals: An Empirical Account of Margrethe Vestager’s Track Record Before the Court of Justice of the European Union† Margrethe Vestager ended her second term as European Commissioner for Competition in November 2024. During her tenure, 237 DG Comp decisions were reviewed by th ...
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.
- World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥LLMs stage a new form of cultural encounter that is massive, automated, and monolingual. Literary disciplines have always negotiated cultural struggles with comparative reading of literature, narratol...
- The Future of NLP may not be at NLP Conferences: Scholarly Migration Patterns in Natural Language Processing† 🔥Natural Language Processing (NLP) has traditionally been published in its core disciplinary venues like ACL. However, advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a blurring of the disciplinary...
- AI and Quantum Information: Bidirectional Integration in Computing and Learning†
- Introspective Coupling: Self-Explanation Training Tracks Behavioral Change Despite Fixed Supervision† ArXiv link for Introspective Coupling: Self-Explanation Training Tracks Behavioral Change Despite Fixed Supervision ...
- WorldOdysseyBench: An Open-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Stability of Interactive World Models ArXiv link for WorldOdysseyBench: An Open-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Stability of Interactive World Models ...
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE (@leftistlawyer.com) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (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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