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.
- Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
- Americans Aren’t Spending Their Retirement Savings 🔥🔥Bucket lists everywhere are suffering.
- Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water 🔥🔥Exclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public control ...
- Farage claim that £5m was reward for Brexit was ‘not press office line’, close aide says 🔥🔥Exclusive: Undercover footage of Dan Jukes raises fresh questions about Reform leader’s statement that £5m gift was for security ...
- Trump administration holds up Patriot missiles for Ukraine 🔥Delays in approving transfers from partner countries coincide with a worsening rupture between President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.
- Man who heckled Abdul El-Sayed is former Josh Hawley aide, records show 🔥Thomas Teepell, who worked for Republican senator, demanded El-Sayed disavow Muslim Brotherhood ...
- Trump Outlines Rapid Plan to Close and Overhaul D.C. Golf Course (Gift Article) 🔥The plan to begin work transforming the course in four weeks injected fresh urgency into a federal lawsuit opposing changes to East Potomac Golf Links.
- Burnham urged to launch inquiry into unequal health impacts of air pollution 🔥Letter from 150 scientists, MPs and activists calls for action to protect lower-income and minority-ethnic communities ...
- Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals 🔥Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the world ...
- Opinion | Elon Musk Is Beyond the Pale 🔥How is it possible that he is still part of the Republican mainstream?
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.
- Corruption Has Been the Name of Their Game. We Can Help Stop It. 🔥🔥🔥Two new reports underscore the scale of corruption by Trump and his family ...
- “This Is Not What the Founders Envisioned” 🔥🔥As his lawyers prepared to return to court this morning in the legal battle over the East Potomac links, Donald Trump was up early, posting on Truth Social about U.S.
- Must -Read LA Times Story on DOJ’s Despicable Conduct in Its Los Angeles Voter Fraud Arrests #ELB 🔥This must-read LA Times story makes me so angry: At the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles late Monday, several green card holders arrested in a crackdown on alleged California voter fraud exp...
- That's Not a Thing 🔥DOJ is jumping the shark with claims that have zero basis in law.
- NEWS: Alarm as Trump Ordered Voting Machine Hack, Vance Mocks Epstein Files Protester, Trump Completely Turns on Ukraine, and More 🔥Good evening, everyone.
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.
- GOP Accepts $276M Bribe to Protect African Immigrant CSAM Purveyor - emptywheel† 🔥🔥🔥🔥At least 7 people have accused Elon Musk -- the African immigrant who donated a quarter of a billion dollars to keep Republicans in power -- of letting Grok disseminate child sexual abuse material of ...
- Our Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration’s Social Media† 🔥🔥🔥No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on ...
- Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers, Politico reports 🔥🔥Anthropic representatives have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with knowledge of ...
- Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 🔥🔥Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...
- AI Governance Is Being Decided Now, and the Public Isn’t in the Room† 🔥Companies have an opportunity to make good on their stated commitment to democratic AI governance, Mackenzie Austin.
- Canadian news publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement 🔥Publishers claim the Claude maker used their content to develop its large language model ...
- Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet† 🔥The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
- Cancel the High School Pilots 🔥Our high school kids are not guinea pigs for big tech. They shouldn't be required to beta test AI to line the pockets of billionaires or fuel construction of polluting data centers that threaten their...
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.
- The Hidden History of the Second Amendment† 🔥🔥Professor Bogus argues that there is strong reason to believe that, in significant part, James Madison drafted the Second Amendment to assure his constituents i ...
- The "Nerd Circuit": Creating a New Court for Regulatory Challenges In recent years, opponents of new Executive Branch initiatives have developed a standard playbook for tying up those initiatives in court:
- The Second Amendment After Doctrine Constitutional rights have boundaries—and methodologies to identify them. Because the strength of constitutional rights depends on their narrowness, robust and ...
- The President's Duty to Commission Officers† The Constitution contains an anti-unitary executive provision in the Commission Clause, which says that the President "shall Commission all the Officers of ...
- Learning Pathologies in the Law of Innovation† Innovation generates, to a lesser or greater degree, uncertainties that regulators must deal with. Part of their toolkit for managing uncertainty involves the u ...
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.
- FloatDoor: Platform-Triggered Backdoors in LLMs 🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive settings such as software engineering, where their outputs directly shape downstream artifacts. Recent work has shown that an identi...
- You Only Index Once: Cross-Layer Sparse Attention with Shared Routing† 🔥🔥🔥Long-context inference in modern LLMs is increasingly constrained by decoding efficiency, especially in reasoning-heavy settings where models generate long intermediate chains of thought. Existing spa...
- Probabilistic AI models outperform numerical weather prediction models on record breaking heat extremes† 🔥🔥AI weather prediction (AIWP) models have emerged as a key complement to physics-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, and now often outperform them on aggregate skill. Yet, several studies ...
- FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness Transformers are slow and memory-hungry on long sequences, since the time and memory complexity of self-attention are quadratic in sequence length. Approximate attention methods have attempted to addr...
- Assessing the AI Readiness of Construction Datasets: A Multidimensional Operational Framework The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in construction has increased the demand for datasets suitable for reliable model development, evaluation, and reuse. However, construction datasets vary widely in documentation, quality, governance, and evaluation support, and consisten…
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)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe 👻Boo!🎃 dek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.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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