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.
- Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
- How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court 🔥🔥In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks.
- Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball 🔥We are already paying a high price for the defense secretary’s purges and whims.
- Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation 🔥Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.
- Reform UK hopes new group will attract more women to party 🔥The party launches Women for Reform at its party conference this weekend, after criticism about its policies.
- It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan 🔥The CEO is the throughline in a history of billion-dollar blunders that have caused real harm, culminating in last week’s settlement ...
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.
- Mamdani, media, and negativity bias 🔥🔥🔥Is it possible to get credit for focusing on implementation?
- Week Fifteen in 250 to 250 🔥Last week was the fifteenth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
- Sunday Morning News Update!! Major Good News and We Surpass Fox News!! 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- September 6, 2026 🔥Storm clouds over the horizon looked like mountains last week as I came in from a late afternoon paddle in the kayak.
- Important Update: Trump Launches Concerning Truth Social Spree, Mitch McConnell Gets Ultimatum, Dr. Amy Acton Attacked, Plane Crash 🔥Donald Trump had one of the oddest days on Truth Social to date, floating the idea of renaming New Mexico to “New America,” attacking Congresswoman Debbie Dingell over the death of her husband, declar...
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.
- Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement† 🔥🔥🔥The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
- Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement 🔥🔥The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems.
- Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement 🔥The Seattle Times and Newsday want AI models built on their works destroyed.
- EXCLUSIVE: US, China gear up for mid-September AI safety talks 🔥The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed on the discussions told Reuters, as rapidly advancing frontier AI capabil...
- Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms The Department of Justice filing argues that large publishers will disproportionately benefit if AI companies have to pay to use copyrighted content.
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.
- "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse† 🔥If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
- Amicus Brief for Supreme Court, Viramontes et al v Cook County, on Assault Weapon Bans in Cook County and Connecticut† There is no credible evidence that “assault-weapon” bans meaningfully reduce gun homicide or crime overall. Because so few states have enacted such bans, and al ...
- On Not Being "Trapped In Amber" In United States v. Rahimi, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the meaning of the Constitution is not "trapped in amber." But it is possible to object t ...
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.
- Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...
- Identifying AI Web Scrapers Using Canary Tokens† 🔥From pre-training to query-time augmentation, web-scraped data helps to improve the quality and contextual relevancy of content generated by large language models (LLMs). However, large-scale web scra...
- Symptom clusters in Long COVID in the UK: prospective community-based cohort study using unsupervised machine learning 🔥Long COVID is a condition usually defined by persisting symptoms following infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus beyond the acute phase of infection. The condition has a significant impact on healthcare s...
- Our Members - arXiv info | arXiv e-print repository†
- Caught in the Story: Narrative Captivity in Multi-turn LLMs Conversation People increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for everyday advice, making ethically charged interpersonal problems a practical moral-advisory context. Most prior work has studied this context through single-turn judgments or pressure-laden rebuttals, assumptions that poorly match how gui…
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)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.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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