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.
- Republicans Aid Kanye West’s Bid to Get on the 2020 Ballot (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥Republican activists in at least half a dozen states are deeply involved in the effort to get Kanye West’s name before voters, renewing questions about the aim of his campaign.
- Why Haley Stevens Can’t Stop Talking About Abdul El-Sayed 🔥🔥🔥In a frank interview, she described her disappointment and also said she was considering converting to Judaism. Her fiancé had thoughts, too.
- Female Student Sues for Gender Discrimination After Losing Male Lead Role in Play (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥Texas officials feared the casting in “Little Shop of Horrors” violated a state law limiting diversity efforts. The student has sued for gender discrimination.
- How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The system that has driven life-altering discoveries and helped make the United States a superpower is now under intense strain.
- Eight of England’s nine water companies still failing on environment, report finds 🔥🔥Angela Eagle tells industry ‘people are sick of excuses’ as pollution levels remain high despite billions in investment ...
- D.C. and Virginia sue to block Trump’s proposed triumphal arch 🔥🔥The lawsuit by the two jurisdictions, which called the arch “flagrantly unlawful,” increases legal pressure against the president’s planned construction project.
- How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine 🔥The system that has driven life-altering discoveries and helped make the United States a superpower is now under intense strain.
- Mahmood expected to announce changes to rules around indefinite leave to remain 🔥The home secretary has faced opposition from within the government over plans to impose new rules on migrant workers already in the UK.
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.
- NEWS: Trump Admits He’s Tired, Wants to ‘Relax,’ Democrats Prepare Subpoenas and Mass Investigations, Courts Slap Down DOJ Efforts 🔥🔥Good morning.
- NEWS: Trump’s Epstein Lawsuit Tossed for Good, BBC Suit on the Brink, GOP Braces for “Bloodbath”—It’s Rough Today 🔥🔥Good evening, and happy Halloween!
- The US Military Is On A Precipice 🔥🔥Hi All,
- An Alaskan election lawsuit, an illicit Arctic gas project, and an American president caught in Moscow’s gravity well 🔥The Russia story keeps becoming every story ...
- October 31, 2026 On his “Swing Around the Circle” in summer 1866 to drum up support for his party before that year’s midterms, President Andrew Johnson denounced Congress as an illegal body, called certain Republican ...
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...
- Inside the weird and legally dubious phenomenon of AI replicas that copy content creators for views and profit Creators who have spent years building audiences are being outperformed by AI-generated copycat videos that skirt the boundaries of copyright law.
- 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.
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 ...
- The Weakening of Fiduciary Law In the 1970s and 80s, as major financial institutions grew and diversified their operations, courts and scholars recognized that fiduciary law posed profound ch ...
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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Bouba Beats Kiki, and Other Regularities in the Subjective Preferences of LLMs 🔥ArXiv link for Bouba Beats Kiki, and Other Regularities in the Subjective Preferences of LLMs ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Free Law Project ⚖ (@free.law) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- ghost malone ergo propter bones (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marc Veldhoen (@marcveld.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.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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