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.
- 'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥After defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.
- Bolsonaro effectively concedes in Brazil after Trump suggests he won’t help 🔥🔥Trump says the presidential election looked “rigged” but did not say he planned to intervene on behalf of the right-wing politician.
- Emotional reunions as photographer recreates shots 46 years on 🔥Sam Hill spent months tracking down the "special generation" he photographed as teenagers in 1980.
- Book Review: ‘Princes and Thieves,’ by Matthew Cole 🔥The new book by the reporter Matthew Cole connects $2 billion in slush funds from gulf state leaders to Trump’s son-in-law in an effort to influence U.S. policy.
- Neutrinos Are Everywhere. A Physicist Explains. 🔥Dr. Francis Halzen, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, sheds some light on the mysterious, subatomic particles that whiz through us everyday.
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.
- Live on Democracy Developments Worldwide 🔥🔥A recording from Joyce Vance's live video ...
- The Day Every Judge Ruled 🔥🔥A lot happened today.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 489. 10/26/26 🔥… The midterms are going so well for Republicans that Trump is campaigning in Mississippi today and Vance is in Montana.
- October 26, 2026 🔥Trump’s increasingly erratic and corrupt behavior condemns Republican leaders who continue to support him.
- Conversation with Dr Amy Acton 🔥A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video ...
- NEWS: Democratic Early Voting Surges, Hegseth Fears Impeachment, Voter Intimidation Efforts Fail, Nicki Minaj for Press Secretary, 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.
- ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Chatbots are building "algorithmic self-portraits" of users as they retain information for a hyper-personalized experience, a study warns.
- We cannot under any circumstances let AI firms govern the future 🔥🔥Anthropic is trying to write its own laws. And all the AI firms have proposals for how their AI will serve the public. Here’s what they have in common--and why we shouldn’t accept any of them.
- Major AI Models Are More Willing than Ever to Create Fake Election Images† We reran our springtime disinformation tests on six AI image generators — only one company showed real safety improvements.
- Anthropic Sued for Training Claude on Elvis Presley Songs Whoa, momma. They trapped me in a training model, momma.
- Here’s How Much Anthropic’s Dario Amodei And Others Are Worth Anthropic filed its prospectus for its highly anticipated IPO Monday morning.
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.
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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.
- math/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand. In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human processing difficulty (e.g., object relative clauses, long syntactic dependencies, low-frequency n-grams). Using a novel corpus of AI-generated text across diverse domains, we find that AI models use these difficult features more often than paraphrases generated by round-trip translation. Compared with human writing, all nine frontier and near-frontier models use more inanimate subjects with animate verbs and more low-frequency n-grams, and most also use longer dependencies, more stacked nouns, and more reduced object relatives in conversation; we also demonstrate substantial variation across model families. We propose and test a hypothesis as to why: while human language is optimized for successful communication, AI-generated text is increasingly optimized for other goals like math, code, and reasoning, in which there is a pressure for \textit{information density} rather than successful communication. We provide a proof-of-concept for this hypothesis by fine-tuning a language model under a length penalty, which leads to a divergence from human-like linguistic behavior. Our findings highlight the axes of misalignment between linguistic processing demands in humans and LLMs, and point toward possible remedies.
- TasteVal: Measuring the Experimental Research Taste of AI Systems Against Human Experts† 🔥We introduce TasteVal, a benchmark to evaluate the experimental research taste of frontier models. We define research taste as the ability to pick interesting problems to solve, design experiments, an...
- Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits The scientific claims drawn from LLM social simulations should be no stronger than the robustness audits that support them. Generative agents bring new expressive power to agent-based modeling, enabli...
- Network topology shapes consensus and vulnerability in LLM populations As large language models (LLMs) are deployed in interacting populations, their collective behaviour depends not only on the models but also on who interacts with whom. Studies of convention formation ...
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)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- ghost malone ergo propter bones (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Marc Veldhoen (@marcveld.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (relegated)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.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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