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.
- First bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire since 1960s ‘success story’ for marine conservation 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinction ...
- How Trump’s Ever-Present Executive Assistant Became the Talk of Washington 🔥🔥🔥🔥Natalie Harp, a personal aide to the president, has become an object of fascination for both the left and right.
- Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone† 🔥🔥Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
- White House attacks CNN reporter after Trump clash, invoking her children 🔥The president shushed CNN’s Kristen Holmes in the Oval Office, and later an official White House account said her children would be “embarrassed” by her.
- Otter spotted for first time in 100 years in New York City’s Bronx River 🔥Image captured in early June shows animal foraging in the waterway in first since early 1900s, signaling its recovery ...
- Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it 'gets in the way' over Iran deal 🔥Trump's threat on Oman, which has been holding its own talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, comes as a 60-day window for peace negotiations expires.
- 5 Things to Know About Angie Nixon, Democratic Senate Candidate in Florida 🔥Ms. Nixon, a democratic socialist, is running on a platform that calls for universal health care and a federal minimum wage of $25 per hour.
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.
- Kash Patel’s Response 🔥🔥The Atlantic wants the Judge to dismiss Patel’s defamation case; Patel argues it’s too soon for that.
- Important Wednesday Night Update 🔥Good evening.
- NEWS: Trump's Worst Election Night in Years, Graham's Debate Disaster, Canada Tariffs Paused, Harp's Brother Calls It an 'Obsession' 🔥Good morning.
- August 19, 2026 The political world has been consumed over the past few days with a Republican meltdown about Trump’s aide Natalie Harp.
- C'mon, Axelrod... Don't say ...
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.
- Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥Amazon buying and destroying rare books to train AI; a bunch of wild AI use in the courts; and Meta's new patent for its AI smart glasses.
- She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks† 🔥🔥A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn from her death?
- State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit† 🔥Lawyers for a former Los Angeles homeowner find AI-generated “hallucinations” in State Farm’s filings.
- Artificial Intelligence Policy Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
- Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Lost it at Compute It's worth asking what it would take to actually democratize AI at each layer of the stack, writes Ellen P. Goodman, starting with compute.
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.
- Anti-Coercion Beyond the Spending Clause 🔥NFIB v. Sebelius announced a constitutional anti-coercion principle: the federal government may neither directly commandeer state capacity, nor indirectly co ...
- Bye-bye, Bluebook? Automating Legal Drudgery With AI-Augmented Rule Following One of the central promises of legal AI is to automate drudgery—the formal, repetitive tasks of lawyers' work that consume time without calling for much discret ...
- The Misshapen Shadows of the 2000 Election† The election of 2000 catalyzed an entire field. A quarter-century on, with the benefit of a bit of time and distance, the anniversary presents an opportunity to ...
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.
- Mathematics in the age of AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...
- Base Models Look Human To AI Detectors† 🔥As AI-generated text enters the real-world at scale, institutions increasingly use commercial AI-text detectors, especially in education and academic-integrity workflows. We report a surprising empiri...
- The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education 🔥Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine ...
- ECG-LLM: Foundation Model for ECG-Based Cardiac Reasoning† Electrocardiography (ECG) is an inexpensive, standard-of-care test for cardiac symptoms, but front-line triage often lacks immediate access to definitive imaging such as echocardiography (ECHO) or car...
- Physics of Agents: Statistical Mechanics Predicts Collective Behavior of AI Agents ArXiv link for Physics of Agents: Statistical Mechanics Predicts Collective Behavior of AI Agents ...
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)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- folukeifejola (@folukeifejola.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Legal AF (@legalafmtn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.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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