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.
- When Idaho Banned Abortion, OB-GYNs Fled. The Doctors Who Stayed Are Cracking. (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥From childbirth to miscarriages, women’s health care in the state has become increasingly dangerous.
- Opinion | The Persecution of Ilhan Omar Is a Sign of Trump’s Desperation (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥Trump is preoccupied with summoning the image of a consolidated authoritarian state.
- Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Open Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein’s Executors 🔥🔥🔥Prosecutors have questioned potential witnesses about his longtime accountant and lawyer. Both of them have denied wrongdoing.
- UK government failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes, inquiry finds 🔥🔥Inquiry chair says failure to advise care homes to isolate people discharged from hospital was ‘significant oversight’
- Is Rabies Making a Comeback? 🔥🔥As several states report surges in animal cases, federal officials are warning about an apparent increase in human exposures.
- Exclusive | Airfield Attack Marked Opening Shot in Putin’s Stepped-Up Sabotage Campaign 🔥🔥The failed operation in eastern Germany this summer was part of a new wave of attacks ordered by President Vladimir Putin.
- The 'trillion pound' oil fund the government believes Britain could have built 🔥For the first time, the Treasury calculates how much the UK could have raised by investing North Sea proceeds.
- World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says 🔥Action needed to avoid disastrous overshoot of climate targets, according to organisation’s environment body ...
- Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching Earth. The story of the biggest one. 🔥Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. Reuters reveals the rise of ‘heat storms.’ They now swarm the globe, upending life and the climate everywhere.
- A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article) 🔥Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.
- Only one female scientist named in GCSEs, research finds 🔥A new study finds Rosalind Franklin is the only woman named in Key Stage 4 science specifications.
- Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 🔥A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25 billion on Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm in...
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.
- When Democrats win the House, they must investigate Elon Musk and bar future government contracts! 🔥🔥Democrats must go after Musk!
- NEWS: Trump Sends Armed Federal Agents to Voters’ Doors With a “Target List,” Major Epstein Action, Putin’s Envoy Declares “Checkmate” 🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- NEWS: Trump Administration Praises Putin as “Humanitarian,” Republicans Demand Musk Investigation, Trump Seeks to Evict the Press 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Breaking: Supreme Court rejects Trump admin’s request to end trans-related care in prison The request to immediately end gender-affirming medical care for trans people in prison was based on an extreme anti-trans argument. Only Thomas and Alito sided with the admin.
- Death Threats Over A Golf Course The latest Main Justice episode ...
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.
- Delivery Robots Accused Of Scanning Customers’ Faces, Sharing Biometric Data† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The battle over Chicago’s food delivery robots has reached the courts, with two customers accusing the companies behind them of collecting their biometric data without consent.
- Save Seattle journalism — fair wages and AI protections now! 🔥The economy is unpredictable, the cost of living is soaring, the political landscape jolts wildly on a daily basis. This is not news to anyone who reads The Seattle Times. And yet, the members of The ...
- HHS telework rollback challenge upheld by FLRA 🔥Federal Labor Relations Authority members wrote that HHS seemingly used generative AI tools to draft its legal brief, since many of its citations were “fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant.”
- Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record† Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...
- Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers, Politico reports† Anthropic representatives have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of ...
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.
- AI and Government Disinformation: Vaccine Disinformation† 🔥🔥Vaccine hesitancy and measle cases are up in the United States. Indeed, the United States is on the brink of losing its measles-elimination status. Wid ...
- The "Nerd Circuit": Creating a New Court for Regulatory Challenges† 🔥 In recent years, opponents of new Executive Branch initiatives have developed a standard playbook for tying up those initiatives in court:
- The Second Amendment After Doctrine† Constitutional rights have boundaries—and methodologies to identify them. Because the strength of constitutional rights depends on their narrowness, robust and ...
- Redundant Amendments: What the Constitution Says When it Repeats Itself We think of constitutional amendments as the mechanism through which the Constitution changes, but some amendments have been at least partially redundant. Their ...
- Litigating Personal Brand: Intellectual Property & the Construction of Self† The concept of “personal brand” is over half a century old but has reached total saturation in the era of social media. The idea of individual as brand encompas ...
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.
- A sub-Earth-sized TESS planet candidate in the nearby M-dwarf binary GJ 774, most likely orbiting GJ 774 A (TIC 351339274)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Small planets transiting the nearest M dwarfs are the terrestrial planets most accessible to detailed characterisation. We report a sub-Earth-sized transiting planet candidate in the wide (17.6") M-dw...
- FloatDoor: Platform-Triggered Backdoors in LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive settings such as software engineering, where their outputs directly shape downstream artifacts. Recent work has shown that an identi...
- Probabilistic AI models outperform numerical weather prediction models on record breaking heat extremes† 🔥🔥AI weather prediction (AIWP) models have emerged as a key complement to physics-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, and now often outperform them on aggregate skill. Yet, several studies ...
- FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness† 🔥Transformers are slow and memory-hungry on long sequences, since the time and memory complexity of self-attention are quadratic in sequence length. Approximate attention methods have attempted to addr...
- AI and Government Disinformation: Vaccine Disinformation† 🔥Vaccine hesitancy and measle cases are up in the United States. Indeed, the United States is on the brink of losing its measles-elimination status. Wid ...
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)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe 👻Boo!🎃 dek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.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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