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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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.
- MIT professor hit while riding his bicycle in Cambridge last month has died, university officials say - The Boston Globe 🔥🔥🔥🔥Thomas Rose, 37, joined MIT in January and was set to begin teaching courses this fall.
- ‘I can’t be bought,’ Nige tells Reform’s faithful – however different it may look | John Crace 🔥🔥🔥🔥Just as the party leader had hoped to change the narrative, along came Channel 4 News to spoil his conference fun ...
- UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale 🔥🔥Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland ...
- UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size 🔥🔥The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
- Pentagon Subjects Roughly 50 Members of the Joint Staff to Polygraph Tests in Expanded Leak Hunt (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The aggressive effort comes in the wake of news reports about the military’s diminished stocks of crucial munitions as the U.S. fights Iran.
- Pentagon Subjects Roughly 50 Members of the Joint Staff to Polygraph Tests in Expanded Leak Hunt 🔥The aggressive effort comes in the wake of news reports about the military’s diminished stocks of crucial munitions as the U.S. fights Iran.
- UK has not done enough to prepare for shocks to food supplies, says watchdog 🔥National Audit Office urges government to act as climate crisis, disease and cyberattacks pose growing risks ...
- Two Reform officials step down after undercover report on party donations 🔥Reform says Dan Jukes and James Orr have left their roles as it launches an investigation into the report.
- EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring 🔥A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research and two people familiar with the matter.
- Trump to use Qatari plane for international trip despite security worries 🔥President Donald Trump plans to fly to Ireland next week aboard the Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar. Plans to take the plane out of service to upgrade its security have slipped to later this fall.
- Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law 🔥A film broadcast by Channel 4 shows senior Reform UK figures discussing donations with an undercover reporter.
- Trump’s huge Venezuela deal began with a call and a bet on an oilman 🔥Alejandro Betancourt was warned that taking on the U.S. government as a business partner would have costs, but America's backing already is providing big benefits.
- Inside Mamdani’s Private Army of Public Influencers (Gift Article) 🔥Zohran Mamdani is seen as a social media wizard. Some of his popularity stems from an influencer operation run by the mayor’s office.
- Judge Orders US to Name Architects of Trump ‘Weaponization’ Fund 🔥A federal judge ordered the US Justice Department to disclose the names of the people who came up with the structure for a controversial fund that could have been used to pay allies of President Donal...
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 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026 🔥🔥🔥🔥So far.
- NEWS: Andrew Tate Indicted, Faces Life in Prison, Trump Erupts as Courts Gut His Gerrymander, Fetterman Exposed, AI Breaks Free Good morning, Today’s rundown leads with Andrew Tate’s new indictment on trafficking charges, a brutal Wall Street Journal report on Senator John Fetterman’s disappearing act, and two state supreme co...
- Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems” What PIT Crew says about how he is governing, and tech in government ...
- September 4, 2026 On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.
- Breaking: Federal judge blocks new USPS mail ballot restrictions as general election ballots begin to be mailed Judge Talwani, who previously blocked Trump’s election “integrity” executive order, on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the key portions of the new USPS rule.
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.
- Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion† 🔥The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.
- Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit† 🔥A class action lawsuit against Meta was amended yesterday to include a new class of "bystanders," who claim Meta violated their privacy.
- Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images† Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’ A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her. “Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California. Continue reading...
- 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.
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 Stepford Justices': The Need for Experiential Diversity on the Roberts Court† 🔥For the first time in history every Supreme Court justice has come directly from the same job: judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. For the first time in history ...
- A FORTIORI: THE IMPLIED CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITION ON PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS OF CO-CONSPIRATORS A Structural, Historical, and Comparative Constitutional Analysis The Pardon Clause empowers the President to "Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment." 1 A ...
- Calling a State a State: Somaliland and International Recognition Since its declaration of independence in 1991, Somaliland has transitioned from a post-conflict society to a stable and relatively democratic state. Despite its ...
- The Individual Right To Bear Arms For Common Defense The fundamental Second Amendment debate has reached a stalemate. On the one side are those who believe that the Second Amendment secures an individua ...
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.
- Do Large Language Models Capture the Diversity in their Training Data?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models are trained to model conditional distributions over text, yet it remains inadequately understood whether they capture the full diversity of plausible outputs present in their tra...
- KEEPING AI IN ITS ZONE† 🔥🔥🔥🔥With zoning-reform fever sweeping local governments, state legislatures, and even Congress, there is an urgent push to understand exactly how zoning works. Unfo ...
- Optical Reservoir Computing with Structural Nonlinearity for Forecasting Chaotic Time Series† 🔥🔥Optical computing offers a promising route to high-speed, energy-efficient information processing. However, implementing nonlinear operations typically requires strong light-matter interactions. Here,...
- The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks† 🔥🔥Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of symb...
- HarnessDev: Can LLMs Create and Evolve Their Own Agent Harness?† 🔥🔥As agents move from research prototypes to deployed tools, their capability increasingly depends on model-external execution infrastructure, commonly termed the agent harness. Changing this harness wh...
- ShotcreteDepth: A Bi-modal Dataset for Robust Robotic Depth Perception in Shotcrete Construction Environments† 🔥🔥We introduce ShotcreteDepth, a bi-modal dataset from the construction domain that captures both an active shotcreting process and general construction environments. The dataset comprises stereo RGB im...
- Ready to Speak: Aligning LLMs for TTS-Friendly Text Generation† 🔥Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily optimized for written text, often producing outputs that are grammatically correct and helpful yet poorly suited for spoken delivery via Text-to-Spee...
- Predicting Multilingual Classification and Translation Performance of LLMs with Cross-Lingual Alignment -- Is English Enough?† 🔥Multilingual large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform better on non-English classification tasks when the representations of the given language are more aligned to English within the mo...
- FiMI Banking: A Sovereign Model for Indian Retail Banking 🔥Banks need conversational systems that can answer product questions, assist customers with account-related requests, and operate safely within strict operational and regulatory constraints. General-purpose language models do not reliably meet these requirements. They fall short when a task requires…
- 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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (relegated)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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