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.
- Alaska Asks Court to Halt Trump’s Effort to Block Votes in Senate Race 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The administration had filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of the election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
- EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon tells Europeans to cool their rhetoric on Russia, sources say 🔥🔥Pentagon officials have in recent weeks asked several NATO countries to tone down their rhetoric regarding the threat posed by Russia, arguing that some statements by European leaders and officials h...
- Hegseth Faces Bipartisan Push for His Ouster After Midterms 🔥🔥Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is set to face a war of attrition with members of Congress from both parties who are determined to hold him responsible for the Iran war and other issues after next week’s ...
- Alina Habba’s Husband Ignited Drama in Trump’s Circle. Now He’s Under Scrutiny. 🔥Turhan Mildon, who married Alina Habba this summer, presents himself as a 29-year-old billionaire with ties to global leaders. His story has inconsistencies.
- Hold your nose: a £1.25bn subsidy for rich Rolls-Royce’s new engine had to happen 🔥The chancellor’s budget giveaway is, unfortunately, a reflection of how life works in the global aerospace business ...
- The Wild Rise of a Trump-Backed Drone Company 🔥Ex-soldier Brett Velicovich turned a presidential social media shout-out into a $300 million drone startup.
- Man admits throwing petrol bomb at Islington asylum seeker hotel 🔥Mark Neville was caught on CCTV carrying out the attack at Thistle City hotel in Islington.
- BP profits hit ‘obscene’ 18-year high as Iran war drives up oil refining margins 🔥Oil giant comes under fire from climate campaigners, as its earnings reach $8.46bn while ‘innocent civilians suffer’
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.
- It’s Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk 🔥🔥🔥🔥Americans did not give him the right to make national security policy ...
- Ending the Nightmare, Reclaiming the Future 🔥By retaking Congress, these historic midterms represent Democrats’ opportunity to reset the course of America ...
- News Outlet Funded by Leonard Leo’s Nonprofit Targets Somali-Americans in Maine 🔥The Maine Wire, a news publication funded by Leonard Leo, is accusing Somali-Americans in Maine of electioneering and steering votes ahead of the 2026 elections.
- Federal judge orders misconduct inquiry into Trump admin actions in case over D.C. golf course It was always going to come down to golf, if we were being honest with ourselves.
- October 30, 2026 Not much from me tonight, but I do want to call out the political signs reading “Stop Fraud: Vote Republican” I saw today as I left Maine.
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.
- #139 in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. X.AI Corp. (N.D. Miss., 3:26-cv-00074) – CourtListener.com 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥OPINION AND ORDER denying 54 Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim. Signed by District Judge Debra M. Brown on 10/30/2026. (lld)
- Democrats see AI hate as winning issue heading into 2028 🔥Democrats are turning AI anxiety into a 2028 political rallying cry.
- The risks of AI-generated health advice 🔥As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more embedded in daily life, growing numbers of people are turning to generative AI chatbots for health advice. OpenAI, the developer of the popular platform Ch...
- Trump Talks to Grok. Democrats Plan to Find Out What He’s Saying. 🔥The president and his staff have been asked to archive prompts submitted to several popular chatbots, an indication that Democrats may seek to reveal those documents.
- More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result 🔥Research finds 55% of lawyers are using AI in legal practices, up from 37% last year, though efficiency gains aren’t as high as expected ...
- Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web 🔥Both sides of a landmark copyright case take the wrong approach, the group says.
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.
- State Prosecutions of Speech in the People's Republic of China: Cases Illustrating the Application of National Security and Public Order Laws to Political and Religious Expression 🔥This volume contains unofficial translations of over 100 documents produced by agencies of the government of the People's Republic of China between 1998 and 202 ...
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.
- Memory Tax: Dissecting the Net Value of Agent Memory 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Memory is increasingly used in long-horizon agents, yet the net value of building memory over direct retrieval from raw history remains largely unclear. Through a large-scale evaluation across multipl...
- DeepInfer-Mac: Running a 750B-Class MoE on a 24 GB Laptop† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for DeepInfer-Mac: Running a 750B-Class MoE on a 24 GB Laptop ...
- Where Models Converge and Humans Diverge: A Coverage Framework for Distributional Pluralism in Open-Ended Generation 🔥🔥When a large language model (LLM) writes Harry Potter fanfiction, it can produce fundamental elements of the Hogwarts universe, such as recognizable places and characters. Human-written Harry Potter f...
- Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand? 🔥There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand. In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human pro...
- Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories† 🔥LLM-generated stories are a popular use case, but they show very low variability. We sample 20,000 total stories from four current models using five prompts. We find that 11 words occur in 88.3% of ge...
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)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- ghost malone ergo propter bones (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Marc Veldhoen (@marcveld.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (relegated)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (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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