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.
- Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
- Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’ 🔥🔥Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies ...
- Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens 🔥🔥The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones.
- South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows 🔥Exclusive: Friends of the Earth finds greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset ...
- Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire 🔥Reform UK denies donor and crypto-billionaire’s global interests in arms and military could present a conflict of interest over its defence spending policy ...
- U.S. to Take Control of Much of Venezuela’s Proven Oil Reserves 🔥President Trump said the agreement would substantially lower gas prices for all Americans.
- The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder. 🔥By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.
- Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting (Gift Article) 🔥Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
- Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel (Gift Article) 🔥The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.
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: Texas Suspends 1.2 Million Voters, Hegseth Considers Presidential Run, Ottawa to Rename Trump Avenue, FBI Hemorrhages Staff 🔥🔥🔥Happy Saturday.
- August 29, 2026 🔥On Thursday, August 27, Tolouse Olorunnipa reported on the attempts of Republican lawmakers to restrict the ability of naturalized and dual citizens to run for office.
- National Security expert: Trump’s cognitive decline is a threat to the nation—and it’s past time media call it out! 🔥Trump is a threat to the world!
- Catching up on Three Important Cases from this Week: Meta, Paramount/Warner Bros., and the challenge to Trump’s EO on mail voting 🔥This has been one of those weeks when it's been difficult to cover all the important developments at the intersection of law and politics.
- Canada in the Crosshairs: A Study in Kremlin Propaganda and MAGA Plunder Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.
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.
- One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law' 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators ...
- Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says† 🔥🔥xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
- The Trump DOJ Is Running Out of Ways to Humiliate Itself In Public† 🔥Another week, another argument from your federal government that would be kind of embarrassing if a high school sophomore tried to make it.
- Grok Not Only Generates Child Porn but Was Also Trained On It, New Lawsuit Claims† A plaintiff is claiming that CSAM was used to train Grok.
- ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit† ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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.
- Freedom as a Constitutional Value† 🔥This chapter explores what it means to treat “freedom” as a constitutional value. Specifically, it focuses on the implications of the republican idea of free ...
- Technical transparency and trust in AI regulation† As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more common in our lives and societies, their technical complexity creates various obstacles to legal scruti ...
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.
- An Echo Chamber of One: Should AI Psychosis Be a Distinct Clinical Entity? 🔥🔥🔥🔥"AI psychosis" has entered public and clinical discourse as a label for the onset or exacerbation of psychotic symptoms, most commonly delusions, following intensive interaction with large language mo...
- Lower bound on the thickness of broadband dielectric mirrors 🔥We present a lower bound on the total physical thickness of a lossless, non-dispersive dielectric mirror for a given minimum reflectance across a wavelength band. The bound is based on a causality-bas...
- Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)† 🔥Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs...
- FLARE: Verifying MILP Reformulations with LLM-Based Theorem Proving† 🔥ArXiv link for FLARE: Verifying MILP Reformulations with LLM-Based Theorem Proving ...
- Dose-PlanNet: Physics Based Radiotherapy Dose Prediction with Deep Learning Automating prostate radiotherapy treatment planning is dosimetrically complex, particularly for extreme hypofractionated regimens. In this study, we introduce Dose-PlanNet, a physics-guided 3D deep learning architecture designed to predict dose distributions. This model's performance was evaluated on a cohort of patients treated in a prospective trial where two different dose fractionation regimens were employed. Dose-PlanNet achieved comparable target coverage ($D_{95}$), though statistical analysis revealed a marginal reduction in target homogeneity ($p<0.001$) offset. However the model achieved statistically significant improvements in high-dose organ-at-risk sparing ($p<0.001$). When evaluated against strict Prospective Randomized protocol volumetric constraints, automated plans met prespecified clinical acceptance criteria in $11$ out of $14$ Moderate Hypofraction Arm plans and $9$ out of $12$ Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Arm plans. This pipeline demonstrates that ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (relegated)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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