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.
- DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’ 🔥🔥🔥🔥The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
- UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August 🔥🔥🔥🔥Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war ...
- Deadly U.S. boat strikes have failed to curb cocaine supply, Pentagon and DEA officials say 🔥🔥🔥🔥The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.
- Protected No More 🔥🔥We look at the end of Temporary Protected Status.
- At Least 3 Killed in Shooting at Food Festival in Seattle 🔥Four others were injured near the city’s Space Needle, the authorities said. The police took a suspect into custody and were searching for another.
- A fight over a San Francisco nonprofit tests how far Democrats will move on crime 🔥The fate of SF Pretrial, a group that runs diversion programs, reflects the tough-on-crime sentiment emerging even in liberal cities.
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.
- 86 the "86 47" Prosecution of Jim Comey 🔥🔥Stick with me tonight.
- Coffee with the Contrarians 🔥🔥If you’re looking for the best way to ease yourself into the coming week and its most important developments, Norman Eisen and I dove straight in the morning.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 427. 7/27/26 🔥… DOD released casualty figures from the Iran war that added hundreds of new ones to the totals even while they attempt to reclassify some to claim that they didn’t take place during wartime hostiliti...
- NEWS: Trump Ordered to Hand Over Major Discovery, I Caught Mitch McConnell's Team Playing Games, Veterans Blast Pentagon Good evening, everyone.
- For Love of Country You cannot really love our country if you refuse to embrace its complex history. The Smithsonian gets it. Donald Trump never will.
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.
- Teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Musk's AI chatbot has created millions of fake sexualised images, experts say.
- Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google 🔥🔥🔥Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
- “Privacy for Profits”: ACLU Warns Flock Building a Nationwide Surveillance Network† 🔥The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-so...
- Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law† A recently enacted New York law mandates that companies disclose when an ad includes a "synthetic performer" in place of a human actor.
- AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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.
- A Faithful Execution Exception to Slaughter 🔥🔥In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court held that Article II permits a President to remove principal officers at will. Ostensibly, the removal power allows the ...
- Digital Policing after Chatrie Chatrie v. United States is a consequential Fourth Amendment opinion, and for Supreme Court watchers a surprising one in its scope ...
- How to Reject a Law Review Article Every submission season, law reviews reject thousands of articles. In doing so, they rely on rejection notification templates containing misleading tropes ...
- The Birth of the Minority Rights First Amendment An incongruence exists in the literature on the nineteenth-century history of expressive freedom. Legal-tradition scholars have determined that t ...
- Lawyers, Historians and 'Law Office History'† Fifty years ago, historian Alfred H. Kelly coined the term “law office history” to describe history as written by legal advocates rather than dispassionate scho ...
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.
- Language Models Embody and Amplify Human Cognitive Distortions: What Is to Be Done?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Human judgment is fundamentally prone to error. A promise of AI is that it will rid decisions of bias and ensure a fairer and safer world for all. Yet research unequivocally demonstrates that LLMs exh...
- Data Annotations as Pedagogical Hints: From Subjective Labels to Critical Thinking† 🔥🔥🔥Machine learning courses often use pre-labeled datasets, hiding the subjectivity of human annotation. This creates students with an overly trusting view of AI data and models, undervaluing interpretiv...
- Randomness in large language models: What researchers need to know (and report) 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for research. Typical use cases are classifications, annotations, information extraction, an ...
- AI systems out-persuade expert humans† 🔥Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has...
- Generative AI Availability, Grades, and Student Satisfaction at a Large University† 🔥The spread of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has raised concerns that students offload cognitive effort to AI, earning high grades without learning. If this "GenAI substitution hypothesis" ...
- Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books† 🔥Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial we...
- 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)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- evacide (@evacide.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.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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