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.
- ICE Hides Detainee Locations From Lawyers and Family Under New Policy (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥A nursing professor in California is among thousands of immigrants excluded from a public detainee database under a new policy to expedite their deportation.
- Flying by pricey military jet, Rubio rarely misses a Florida football game 🔥🔥🔥🔥The secretary of state, who is required to travel by government plane, defended his trips to his alma mater to see his son play.
- Opinion | Why I Keep My Eyes — and My Mind — on the South (Published 2023) 🔥🔥🔥
- Most transgender people have no regrets years after hormone therapy, study says 🔥🔥The study, conducted by researchers in Texas, is the largest yet to examine satisfaction and regret in people who transitioned before they reached adulthood.
- Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds 🔥🔥Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action ...
- Somali Bodyguard Was Indicted in a Bid to Incriminate Ilhan Omar 🔥Prosecutors used statements made during a green card interview to pressure a former bodyguard to provide evidence against the Minnesota congresswoman, his lawyer said.
- Trump Promised to Care for America’s Veterans. The VA Is Now “Collapsing From the Inside.” 🔥A vet who couldn’t get cancer treatment. Another unable to get surgery for a burst appendix. Trump officials claim their VA overhaul hasn’t harmed veterans, but our reporting in New Jersey reveals a h...
- Election lies to Fox News fixture: key things to know about Jim Jordan 🔥All eyes are on the Republican – but Jordan has a long history of controversial views that many of his own party members aren’t aligned with ...
- Pete Hegseth Is About to Get His Ass Kicked 🔥House Democrats are already planning to make their impeachment case against the defense secretary as airtight—and appealing to Republicans—as possible.
- In Major Upset, Scott Colom, a Democrat, Wins Mississippi Senate Seat (Gift Article) 🔥Scott Colom, a Democrat and prosecutor, is the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.
- Exclusive | Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang 🔥Move follows company investigation into an affair with a Chinese woman alleged to be a spy.
- Trump Officials Drop Threat to Colorado School District Over Transgender Issues 🔥Trump administration officials had accused the district of allowing boys on girls’ teams, which they said violated a ban on sex discrimination in schools.
- Honor and Anguish: A Veterans Day When the Losses Are New (Gift Article) 🔥For these military families who lost a loved one in the war with Iran, emotions run from pride to grief to anger.
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.
- BREAKING: Democrats Flip Mississippi Blue, Pete Hegseth Reprimanded For Laughing by Soldier, Major Epstein News, and More 🔥🔥Good evening.
- The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026 🔥🔥So far.
- Trump's Ultimate Nightmare Plaintiffs 🔥Nine members of the Kennedy family sue to halt construction on the bombastic arch.
- On Scott Colom’s historic victory in Mississippi, the power of courage, and a belief in a better future 🔥“All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this,” the senator-elect said from the stage in Jackson, Mississippi. He will be the state’s first Black senator since 1881.
- November 11, 2026 🔥The day that we now recognize as Veterans Day began at the end of World War I, when the armistice that turned into a lasting peace took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh ...
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.
- AI hoaxes are deceiving 911 dispatchers, and they're only getting harder to detect 🔥🔥🔥🔥Swatters are increasingly using AI technology that creates synthetic voices or sound effects to generate remarkably believable fake emergency calls to law enforcement.
- Man wrongly jailed after AI mismatch can pursue lawsuit for now† 🔥🔥🔥A federal judge in Kentucky has allowed a lawsuit to proceed against a police detective for allegedly relying exclusively on AI facial-recognition technology to identify a check fraud suspect, leading to the arrest and imprisonment of the wrong person.
- Nvidia Intervened in US Probe of Megaspeed Chip Smuggling† 🔥Nvidia Corp.’s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International, questioning whether the Trump administration played a role in detaining an executive from the Singapore-based firm who’s now at the heart of a scandal threatening Jensen Huang.
- The End of Software Copyright† 🔥 The vast majority of coders and software companies today use AI-generated code or employ programmers who do; surveys suggest that nearly 90% of coders ar ...
- Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker There is growing momentum for AI regulation. How will Congress act?
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.
- The End of Software Copyright† 🔥🔥 The vast majority of coders and software companies today use AI-generated code or employ programmers who do; surveys suggest that nearly 90% of coders ar ...
- NEPA Litigation: What the Record Shows Congress is again considering how federal courts should review environmental decisions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The bill at the cente ...
- Callais And Systemic Governance In its most recent October Term, the Supreme Court delivered a devastating blow to American democracy in eviscerating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Loui ...
- In re: OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, Amicus Brief of Ron Suskind and Brian L. Frye in Support of Neither Party† This document is an amicus brief written by Ron Suskind and Brian L. Frye that was filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York i ...
- Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence (3d Cir. 2026): Amicus Brief of Brian L. Frye in Support of Petition for Rehearing En Banc† This is an amicus brief filed in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence (3d Cir. 2026), in support of ROSS's petition for rehearing en banc. It argues that the 3d ...
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.
- The End of Software Copyright† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The vast majority of coders and software companies today use AI-generated code or employ programmers who do; surveys suggest that nearly 90% of coders ar ...
- The Surprising Effectiveness of Deleting Weights in LLM Post-Training 🔥How little of a pretrained large language model (LLM) has to change for it to acquire new capabilities? We find that zeroing fewer than 0.05% of its weights, with no other modification, matches full fine-tuning (FFT) at scale across three LLM post-training regimes: reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, supervised fine-tuning, and on-policy distillation. Our method, Deletion Tuning, learns a binary mask over the gate projection of transformer blocks. Two practical advantages follow: the trained mask is hundreds to thousands of times smaller than the corresponding FFT checkpoint, and Deletion Tuning forgets far less, which addresses a central challenge in continual learning. Under reinforcement learning, its prior-task accuracy stays near the base level while FFT, LoRA, and random sparse fine-tuning lose up to 5.4 points. To understand why masking alone suffices, we analyze the geometry of the learned weight changes under reinforcement learning using stable rank, spectrum drift, and principal-weight overlap. Compared with LoRA and random sparse fine-tuning, Deletion Tuning is closest to FFT across the three measures.
- In re: OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, Amicus Brief of Ron Suskind and Brian L. Frye in Support of Neither Party† This document is an amicus brief written by Ron Suskind and Brian L. Frye that was filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York i ...
- How Many Votes is a Lie Worth? Measuring Strategyproofness through Resource Augmentation It is well known, by the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem, that when there are more than two candidates, any non-dictatorial voting rule can be manipulated by untruthful voters. But how much stronger is ...
- The Cognitive Divergence: AI Context Windows, Human Attention Decline, and the Delegation Feedback Loop† This paper documents and theorises a self-reinforcing dynamic between two measurable trends: the exponential expansion of large language model (LLM) context windows and the secular contraction of huma...
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)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- °。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Danny Miller (@danielmilleresq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Free Law Project ⚖ (@free.law) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.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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