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.
- Appeals court declines to pause sanctions against Trump lawyers in IRS settlement 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A US appeals court declined on Tuesday to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald Trump who a judge accused of misusing the court system in settling a lawsuit the Republican president...
- Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
- The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
- A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
- Hegseth bars military academies from hiring civilians as tenured professors The move marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over faculty at service academies.
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.
- Flooding the Zone 🔥🔥Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...
- Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment 🔥It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
- It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened? 🔥How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 470. 9/29/26 … Sen.
- NEWS: Jack Smith Hearing Blows Up in GOP's Face, Trump Adviser Braces for "F**king Rough" Midterms, Survivor Speaks Out, and More Good evening.
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.
- OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
- OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack 🔥🔥A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
- OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say† 🔥🔥Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
- What Do Dictators and Rogue AI Have in Common? Trump's Overwhelming Love 🔥🔥Ambassador Susan Rice warns that unregulated AI will kill civilians and arm hostile parties.
- Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution" President Trump and the leaders of the country's largest artificial intelligence companies have signed a set of voluntary safety standards, as calls mount for tighter guardrails on powerful AI technol...
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.
- Protectors of Predators or Prey: Bystanders and Upstanders Amid Sexual Crimes† In the wake of widespread revelations about sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, and others, the United States is reckoning with the past and present ...
- Known to Police: the Revival of Juvenile Curfews† A few years ago, in response to an uptick in crime rates, many cities revived a familiar tool—juvenile curfews. Yet unlike prior iterations, modern juvenile ...
- “The People Have a Right”: Vermont’s Village Greens, the Declaration of Rights, and Greater State Constitutional Protection for Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly† This Article argues, for the consideration of the Vermont Supreme Court, that Articles 13 and 20 of the Vermont Constitution, declaring the people’s rights of f ...
- Three Accusations against Israel: Apartheid, Settler Colonialism, and Genocide under Legal and Historical Scrutiny† This article examines three recurrent classifications of Israel and its conduct: apartheid, settler colonialism, and genocide. It treats apartheid and genocide ...
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.
- JEV vs. LLMs as Rubric Judges: Cheaper, Faster, and Wrong in the Same Places 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We ask whether Jev, a typed classifier that returns probabilities over permitted answers without generating text, can replace an LLM rubric judge. We compare it with three flash-tier LLM judges on nin...
- Shutdown Sabotage Propensities in Multi-Agent Systems† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The final safeguard against rogue AI behavior is the human ability to shut systems down. It has been theorized that when an AI is instructed to perform a task, self-preservation can emerge as an instr...
- Game-Theoretic Lens on LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning, planning, and communication abilities, enabling them to operate as autonomous agents in open environments. While single-agent systems r...
- Cheap, open agents make LLM pollution harder to mitigate† 🔥Large Language Model (LLM) pollution occurs when synthetic responses contaminate data intended to capture human behavior. High deployment costs have so far limited the risk posed by autonomous survey agents. However, open-weight models paired with open-source agentic frameworks may have removed thi…
- Structural Alignment for Reliable Industrial AI: Bridging Physical Reality, Data, Models, and Human Intent Artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed in critical industrial domains, including healthcare, energy grids, subsurface exploration, where failures can have severe consequences for human safety, system stability, and economic outcomes. Yet AI is still evaluated primarily through benchmark a…
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)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- In Medias Malone (@professormusgrave.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.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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