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.
- Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
- Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says 🔥🔥🔥“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
- Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says 🔥🔥Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
- ‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left 🔥🔥TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus ...
- The most shocking part of Trump’s comments is what our reaction says about us 🔥Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerous ...
- Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed 🔥Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December ...
- Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article) 🔥Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
- Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error 🔥Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data ...
- Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made 🔥Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia ...
- Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies 🔥Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants ...
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 Strange Myth of Kemi Badenoch 🔥🔥🔥Why does she have the best press in politics?
- October 8, 2026 🔥🔥🔥On October 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds drove deadly fires through the Midwest.
- NEWS: Trump Loses Nobel Prize He Begged For, ICE Unleashed on California, Shoots Man in New York, UN Calls Trump’s Execution Torture Good morning, I’ll be honest with you: today’s newsletter is a heavy one.
- This Is What The End Of An “Age” Looks Like And The US Cannot Admit It ...
- Why They Want You to Watch The Legal Spectacle of Public Executions ...
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.
- Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the…
- A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers† 🔥🔥The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
- McDonald's sued over AI tool that recommends prices to US franchisees† 🔥🔥McDonald’s is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges its AI-enhanced pricing tool violates antitrust laws because it shares nonpublic data with competing franchisees.
- Chatbots Still Bad at Spotting AI-Generated Images Despite New Law 🔥The California AI Transparency Act requires AI-generated images to include digital labels, but most chatbots aren’t looking for them.
- USA Today Sues OpenAI For Over $250 Million, Alleging Willful Copyright Infringement USA Today’s parent company sued OpenAI in a New York federal court on Thursday for allegedly using content from 19 publications without permission.
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.
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS SPEECH Artificial intelligence (AI) often looks like speech, functions like speech, and causes the same types of harms as speech. Many aspects of the output of AI shou ...
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.
- Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this pro...
- OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems 🔥Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors. On Oct. 6, Open…
- A gauge-invariant measure for lattice chiral fermions We nonperturbatively construct a gauge-invariant measure for overlap fermions on four-dimensional Euclidean lattices in a class of nonabelian chiral gauge theories that includes the Standard Model. On...
- Is this machine playing? https://arxiv.org/html/2610.07130v1 ...
- Information-Dense Synthesis for Molecular Discovery Machine learning can accelerate molecular discovery by designing molecules and planning experiments. However, many scientific challenges demand molecules with very rare properties, and in this sparse ...
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)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.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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