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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ The Finite Scroll, an open-source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- In Canada and at Home, Deference to Trump Turns to Defiance on Tariffs and Other Issues (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥While the president remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously than at the beginning of his second term.
- Before Hegseth fired him, top general was advised to drop Kid Rock probe 🔥🔥🔥🔥Gen. Randy George appeared troubled by the encounter with Gen. Chris LaNeve, the Army’s No. 2 officer now favored for the service’s top job, people familiar with the matter told The Post.
- Judge Sides With Texas Over Minnesota on Extradition of ICE Agent 🔥🔥The two states have waged an unusual court battle over the agent facing charges over a shooting in Minneapolis. The agent could be released from jail on Thursday.
- Meta settles with US states over social media harms 🔥Meta Platforms reached a settlement to resolve claims brought by states across the country that the company designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected personal data of children who used its platforms.
- ‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought 🔥Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent ...
- Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All 🔥In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.
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.
- Blog - An Open Letter of Support for Anthony Fauci from the Bioethics Community - Bioethics Today 🔥🔥🔥🔥As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to ...
- The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side 🔥This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
- NEWS: Trump to Spend $400 Million to Make Midterms Referendum on Himself, CIA Director in Moscow, Imagination Library, and More Good morning.
- Canada in the Crosshairs: A Study in Kremlin Propaganda and MAGA Plunder Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.
- Burnham: another failed PM in the making A comment was posted on this blog this morning, which hinted that it did not believe Andy Burnham's suggestion that “Manchesterism is the end of neoliberalism”. I responded that Burnham seems more li...
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.
- California Supreme Court puzzled by GOP sheriff’s ‘bizarre’ defense for seizing ballots† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The hearing also revealed that Bianco never sought a legal opinion before seizing the ballots, and included an embarrassing admission from Bianco’s lawyer that the use of AI had led to the inclusion o...
- ‘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 doesn't want to be a social media company anymore 🔥🔥Despite an $18 billion settlement to end a nationwide child endangerment lawsuit, the firm clearly no longer sees social media as its main product—or its future.
- The People Have Spoken; They Want Their Power Back† 🔥The data-center backlash, like the affordability backlash, is often irrational. The underlying demand for agency is righteous.
- “The Template for Law Schools Around the World”: UChicago Law School Announces New AI Strategy† 🔥The Law School will prohibit electronic devices in most 1L courses next academic year, according to a broad strategy statement outlining its new approach to legal education amid increasing use of AI a...
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 ...
- When Is the Best Reading of A Statute That It Delegates Discretion? The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo to end Chevron deference has at least temporarily unsettled the fiel ...
- 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 Uninvestigable President: Executive Accountability after Trump V. United States and Trump V. Slaughter Presidential accountability depends on information. Elections, impeachment, prosecution, and public judgment all require facts. And t ...
- Pride in the Police, but the Police in Pride…?† When it comes to judicial review, courts have long been resistant to challenges which involve an allegation that a public body has acted irrationally. For good ...
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.
- 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...
- [2608.16884v1] Improving the matrix multiplication exponent with modern optimization and AlphaEvolve† 🔥🔥🔥A new paper details advancements in optimizing matrix multiplication, achieving ω < 2.371177. The authors reformulate the optimization problem and integrate machine learning, specifically AlphaEvolve,
- Large Language Models Generate Harmful Responses Using a Distinct Mechanism, Shared Across Harm Types 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Large Language Models Generate Harmful Responses Using a Distinct Mechanism, Shared Across Harm Types ...
- ECG Foundation Models and Medical LLMs for Agentic Cardiovascular Intelligence at the Edge: A Review and Outlook† 🔥Electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models represent a paradigm shift from task-specific pipelines to generalizable architectures pre-trained on large-scale unlabeled waveform data. This survey present...
- Verbalizing LLMs' assumptions to explain and control sycophancy 🔥ArXiv link for Verbalizing LLMs' assumptions to explain and control sycophancy ...
- Training Proactive and Personalized LLM Agents 🔥ArXiv link for Training Proactive and Personalized LLM Agents ...
- AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop 🔥AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a ''human in the loop'', but this is not a simple solution: Not on...
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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