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.
- Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
- Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists 🔥🔥🔥Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans ...
- Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War 🔥🔥Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.
- A.I. Data Center Pollution Poses Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn (Gift Article) 🔥🔥Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
- Katie Miller held large stake in Elon Musk’s xAI as she slammed ChatGPT online 🔥🔥Conservative podcaster Miller, a former top aide to Musk, is the latest political influencer to comment on public issues without fully disclosing financial ties.
- Alstom to build new battery-electric train fleet 🔥The government says the work will support thousands of jobs across the UK.
- Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say 🔥The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture...
- Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons 🔥In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
- Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms 🔥In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress. The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.
- Cowboy Hats, Empty Seats, Lots of Trump: Inside the GOP Midterm Convention 🔥With his approval rating low in most polls, the president stages a spectacle in Dallas where he’s the star.
- Carbon Removal Pioneer Climeworks Increases CO2 Capture Sixfold 🔥The world’s largest direct air capture plant is sucking more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a lower cost, an improvement for a sector struggling to scale economically as global warming surpasse...
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.
- January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy 🔥🔥House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress ...
- Our Military Needs Congress to Do Its Job 🔥🔥54 Days to the Midterms ...
- September 10, 2026 🔥We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another c...
- Breaking: SCOTUS blocks TRO that had thrown Missouri’s congressional elections into chaos 🔥The ruling should mean that the map used by the current congressional delegation, not the HB1 map backed by Republicans and used in the primaries, will be used in the general election.
- NEWS: Republicans Shut Down Trump’s $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Bribe, Musk’s Election Texts, Trump Losses Pile Up, Diesel Hits Record Highs 🔥Good afternoon.
- Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks 🔥What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency ...
- An Update: The First Circuit Protects Voting By Mail From the Trump Administration 🔥Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Talwani’s injunction that prevents the administration, at least for the midterm elections, from putting its plans to interfere with mail voting...
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.
- 'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
- San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads† 🔥🔥🔥The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
- The Hugging Face hack shows what happens when AI agents work together 🔥Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, says the attack presents a narrow window for humans to act.
- Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.† Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
- Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?† "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
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.
- Parody of What?† 🔥🔥 Barbie. Barney. The Elf on the shelf. Gone with the Wind. Grease. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Walt Disney. Don Henley. WWF wrestlers. Viral music vid ...
- Algorethics and Neuro-Symbolic Military AI: Ontologies, "Hellscapes," Just War, and Silicon Valley 🔥Algorethics, as described in the Rome Call for AI Ethics (2020) and related documents, is an overarching field that includes algorithmic accountability, s ...
- Election-Related Search Warrants The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. In most instances, that standard requires a warrant issued upon a presentation of prob ...
- Against the Dictatorial Presidency Article II of the Constitution says that “[t]he executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Ever since the 1980s, it has be ...
- Who Controls the Block? How States Can Regulate Tokenized Residential Real Estate In July 2025, the City of Detroit filed a major nuisance abatement action against RealT, a fintech that had sold blockchain-based fractional interests in more 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.
- Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥It is no longer hypothetical: U.S. government agencies are using AI to write regulations. We therefore must grapple with the intersection of the Administrati ...
- AI Corporate Governance and Ben & Jerry's Risk† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This paper critically analyzes the governance arrangements of OpenAI and Anthropic. These firms have an unusual built-in conflict: each raises funds from profit ...
- The Steep Cost of Capture† 🔥🔥In considering how to tackle this onslaught of industrial AI, we must first recognize that the “advances” in AI celebrated over the past decade were not due to ...
- 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 ...
- Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery 🔥Agentic systems are rapidly moving to production, where they read untrusted inputs, call tools with real permissions, and act autonomously, expanding the security surface beyond chat-only models. Yet standard evaluations remain single-turn and fail to capture multi-step agent vulnerabilities. We pr…
- Algorethics and Neuro-Symbolic Military AI: Ontologies, "Hellscapes," Just War, and Silicon Valley 🔥Algorethics, as described in the Rome Call for AI Ethics (2020) and related documents, is an overarching field that includes algorithmic accountability, s ...
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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