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.
- A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
- Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it 🔥🔥President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censor...
- Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis 🔥🔥Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage ...
- BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring 🔥Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record ...
- Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts 🔥Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss ...
- Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says 🔥Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
- EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say 🔥The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...
- Crews building Trump border wall in drought-hit New Mexico ordered to stop drilling wells 🔥Residents and farmers say contractors have tapped border aquifers that threaten water supply for those nearby ...
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.
- NEWS: Bombshell Epstein Report Reveals Trump/CBS Cover-Up of Money Trail, Military Runs out of Munitions, DOJ Drops More Cases 🔥🔥🔥Good morning everyone.
- NEWS: Military 'Accidentally' Kills Civilians on Medevac Plane, Republicans Admit they Cannot 'Rein' Trump in, More White House Construction 🔥Good evening everyone.
- Blanche and Trump Snooker Cornyn and Tillis 🔥The Senators got a piece of paper. Blanche got out of committee. Trump got everything.
- August 4, 2026 🔥On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
- Trump's Executive Order on Voting: Blue State Attorneys General, and Some Retired Judges, Weigh In Sunday night in The Week Ahead post, we discussed the Trump administration’s effort to push ahead with implementation of an executive order that would give the federal government greater control over ...
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.
- Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr 🔥🔥🔥🔥We need an enlightened US president to make the case for global AI regulation. Donald Trump is the exact opposite of what is needed, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr ...
- Know Your Agent: Why you should act now, to avoid playing catch-up later 🔥🔥Back in March, I was beaten by the bins. I’d spent a happy few evenings (and a great many tokens) trying to build a simple web app: share any UK address, find out which bins to put out, and w…
- Top Connecticut court warns lawyers on AI risks after fake citations† 🔥Connecticut's highest state court issued a warning to lawyers that they remain responsible for the accuracy of court filings produced with generative AI, using a decision about fabricated case citations to underscore attorneys' ethical obligations .
- If AI Outputs Aren’t Speech, Who Has to Prove They’re Human? 🔥Denying First Amendment protection to AI outputs sounds like a rule about machines. In practice it could burden human speech online.
- German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules 🔥A German court ruled on Friday that AI music firm Suno violated copyrights and has to disclose illicit revenue, part of a wider legal battle by artists and publishers against technology firms.
- OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal" 🔥“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.
- Trump advisers tell AI firms they will not safety-test open-weight models 🔥The Trump administration told AI developers on Tuesday that it will not put open-weight AI models through voluntary safety tests, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
- OpenAI Shares Chats And Emails To Rebut Apple’s Suit Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets 🔥The ChatGPT-maker issued a lengthy public statement disputing claims from Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit and shared iMessage chats and emails.
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 Collision of State Climate Tort Suits with Federal Deregulation† 🔥🔥In its October 2026 term, the Supreme Court will review Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder, a tort case with significant implications for t ...
- PROPERTY RIGHTS IN LIQUID GOLD: RECOGNIZING BREASTMILK AS PROPERTY 🔥Breastmilk is a highly valued commodity. It is produced, stored, transferred, sold, and, at times, contaminated, stolen, improperly handled, and even lost. Liti ...
- The Future of Environmental Law Amid the Destruction of Science† Essay in the Harvard Environmental Law Review's Symposium Issue on the Future of Environmental Law One Year into Trump; responding to Richard Revesz's Invert ...
- United States v. Hemani: A Narrow Holding Full of Problems In United States v. Hemani (2026), a unanimous Supreme Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) violates the Second Amendment when applied to regular marijuana use ...
- Digital Platforms and Epistemic Authority [104 Texas Law Review (forthcoming 2026)] This Essay argues that communicative platforms' epistemic power is relational, fluctuating between weak, proxy, and strong depending on their infrastructural po ...
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.
- Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...
- Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts hav...
- Individual-level interventions against sycophantic AI reduce its appeal but not its persuasiveness 🔥AI chatbots can be "sycophantic," or overly agreeable and flattering toward users. Sycophantic AI has been shown to entrench attitudes, yet users frequently fail to recognize it (a phenomenon we call ...
- Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware 🔥Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI tr...
- A mathematical perspective on Transformers Transformers play a central role in the inner workings of large language models. We develop a mathematical framework for analyzing Transformers based on their interpretation as interacting particle sy...
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)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- evacide (@evacide.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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