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.
- Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
- Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory content ...
- In candid interviews, National Guard members speak out about D.C. deployment As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.
- Donald Trump’s approval rating Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump ...
- Hakeem Jeffries says he wants to see ‘dramatic reform’ of Supreme Court Hakeem Jeffries supports aggressive changes to the Supreme Court.
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.
- The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back. 🔥🔥🔥Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.
- Police Officer Who Murdered Springfield Woman Dies in Prison 🔥🔥Sonya Massey’s killer died of cancer less than a year into his sentence ...
- WTF is Hakeem Jeffries doing hanging out with Jared Kushner?! Hakeem is hurting Democratic party unity!
- What Monday’s Supreme Court election order ruling is and is not The Republican majority gave Trump a temporary win. It could be short-lived — or it could “foment chaos,” as Justice Jackson wrote, calling out the majority in unusually direct terms.
- An Update: Substack Live with Steve Vladeck Now tonight at 8pm ET--Breaking News!
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.
- Show Cause Hearing: State v. Sandoval, S-1-SC-40845† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥YouTube video by New Mexico Courts ...
- ‘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.
- Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party† 🔥A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, create a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of…
- UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students The University of California, Berkeley Law School has adopted a new, strict policy governing students’ use of AI. It forbids the use of AI for work submitted for credit.
- WikiHow sues OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training Do-it-yourself website WikiHow sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for allegedly misusing its instructional material to train its popular chatbot ChatGPT.
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.
- Is Bivens Dead? 🔥🔥For much of its fifty-year existence, Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics has served as a tenuous counterpart to Section 1983, pro ...
- THE BREADTH AND DEPTH OF THE DUTY TO DISCLOSE ADVERSE AUTHORITY: THE MEANING OF "CONTROLLING JURISDICTION"† Ethical rules impose on lawyers a duty to disclose adverse authority from the "controlling jurisdiction" known to the lawyer and not disclosed by o ...
- The Forgotten History of Legislative Interpretive Directives This Article addresses an overlooked aspect of the history of legal interpretation: the early emergence of "legislative interpretive directives," enac ...
- Holistic Constitutional Interpretation This Article identifies and advocates for holistic constitutional interpretation, a method in which interpreters consider disputed constitutional terms ...
- Should Law Subsidize Driving?† A century ago, captains of industry and their allies in government launched a social experiment in urban America: the abandonment of mass transit in favor of a ...
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.
- Mathematics in the age of AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...
- Testing and Evaluation of Agentic AI Systems In Military Command and Control Agentic AI systems are being procured for military command and control (C2) under public commitments to rigorous testing and human oversight. Whether such commitments can be discharged depends on their supporting assurance case, which requires three elements: claims specifying the conditions for acceptability, evidence bearing on those claims, and an argument connecting the two. Through a structured review of 240 documented Testing and Evaluation (T&E;) practices, spanning eight evaluation dimensions and three lifecycle stages, we identify eight assumptions that established methods make about their test article, grouped into four clusters: system specifiability, stability, composability, and supervisability. Agentic properties weaken all eight assumptions. This erosion affects the argument connecting evidence to claims, not the claims or evidence themselves. As a result, test results may satisfy process requirements, but they do not warrant the inference from tested to fielded behavior. We derive ten assurance claims for the first three assumption clusters and assess whether current and emerging methods can address each, mapping operational consequences through five C2 scenarios. Supervisability is identified but not assessed here, since evidencing it depends on system stability results and human factors T&E; methods beyond the present scope. The documented record does not support broad claims about system-level behavior, but narrower claims remain recoverable in principle, contingent on mature methods: bounded mission envelopes, trajectory-grounded correctness, executable runtime constraints, and characterized run-to-run variance. Part of the evidentiary burden shifts into deployment, making the determination to field a continuing act. Where evidence cannot be generated, the residual uncertainty can be governed through defined expiry conditions and assigned ownership.
- Sleep-time Compute: Beyond Inference Scaling at Test-time Scaling test-time compute has emerged as a key ingredient for enabling large language models (LLMs) to solve difficult problems, but comes with high latency and inference cost. We introduce sleep-time...
- A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents Autonomous agents have long been a prominent research focus in both academic and industry communities. Previous research in this field often focuses on training agents with limited knowledge within is...
- Affective Context Amplifies Sycophancy in LLM Responses As conversational companions, large language models (LLMs) often have access to users' emotional states. We study how this affective context modulates LLM sycophancy in subjective, evaluative interact...
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)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (promoted)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Legal AF (@legalafmtn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- folukeifejola (@folukeifejola.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.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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