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.
- No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
- Abuse of RNLI volunteers 'wholly unacceptable', chief says 🔥🔥Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.
- Why We’re Suing the State Department Over International Agreements 🔥🔥Lawfare is suing to bring transparency back to international agreements—and you can help.
- At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Adds New Claim to His Disputed Role After Attack 🔥President Trump has long sought to position himself close to the Sept. 11 recovery effort and has made a series of questionable and provocative statements to burnish his political brand.
- Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian 🔥After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.
- Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. 🔥Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
- United Utilities fined £900k over Fleetwood sewage discharges 🔥A pipe collapse at Fleetwood Wastewater Treatment Works led to the sewage spillage.
- UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds 🔥Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says ...
- Authorities decline to prosecute woman who made false report against Buttigieg 🔥The accuser has a history of alcohol abuse, hallucinations and delusional thinking, according to an Indiana prosecutor who determined she was not able to form criminal intent.
- Exclusive | Iran Launched Undisclosed Second Wave of Attacks on U.S. Navy Ships 🔥The second strike in three days missed its targets, as concerns grow that Tehran’s missiles are becoming more sophisticated.
- ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database 🔥As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 455. 9/8/26 🔥🔥… Trump told several insane lies today during a ceremony for 9/11 first responders and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation in DC.
- NEWS: Trump Slammed Over ‘Horrific’ 9/11 Lies, NYC's Post-9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up Exposed, America's Allies Leave the U.S. Behind, and More 🔥🔥Hey everyone.
- September 8, 2026 🔥On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...
- Dueling rulings cause chaos over Missouri maps 🔥By Tuesday night, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins faced an order from the Missouri Supreme Court to show cause why he should not be held in contempt.
- Midweek Update #27: When Will The US Run Out Of Patriot Interceptors? More And More This Looks Like The End Of An Era; China And Russia Must Be Loving This ...
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.
- 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 and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement† 🔥🔥The Seattle Times and Newsday want AI models built on their works destroyed.
- A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users 🔥Some subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan, which costs $100-200 per month, say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for in a new expanded class-action lawsuit.
- Law schools tell students to put AI away† 🔥The technology is being banned from certain classrooms to remove shortcuts that ‘stunt intellectual growth’
- Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
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 ...
- The Death and Rebirth of Vote Dilution For more than half a century, federal law recognized the concept of racial vote dilution. Members of a racial group experience this condition when voting is rac ...
- Parody of What? Barbie. Barney. The Elf on the shelf. Gone with the Wind. Grease. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Walt Disney. Don Henley. WWF wrestlers. Viral music vid ...
- The Counterfeit Sham There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- Representation of syntax in LLMs through the lens of linear distance and similarity-aware entropy Structural probes were introduced by Hewitt and Manning to reconstruct syntactic trees from a neural language model's latent representations. They are evaluated by calculating the proportion of syntac...
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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