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.
- Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
- Trump Still Has That IRS Immunity. Don’t Be Fooled 🔥🔥🔥🔥Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s assurance to senators about the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and President Trump’s immunity with the Internal Revenue Service is nothing more than a ho...
- Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding 🔥🔥The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.
- How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics 🔥The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
- Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy 🔥Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes ...
- Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election 🔥Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP ...
- Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog 🔥Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.
- The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow 🔥The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow ...
- AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger 🔥Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker ...
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.
- William Pulte Served Illegally as Acting Director of National Intelligence for Nearly a Week 🔥🔥🔥William Pulte purported to act as the director of national intelligence for nearly a week after Jay Clayton was confirmed as his successor. That violates the plain text of the Vacancies Act.
- The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe 🔥🔥MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell reported Monday morning that “Overnight: A spokesperson for Sen.
- Major Update: Trump DOJ Executes 'Sham' Deal to Immunize President and his Sons and get Todd Blanche Confirmed—Share This Everywhere 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Todd Blanche doesn't believe in the rule of law, and John Cornyn and Thom Tillis don't care 🔥Blanche's Sunday night moves should not save his nomination. The reaction from the pair of soon-departing Republican senators is not oversight and not principled.
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman) This essay marks my 250th dispatch on the Talking Feds Substack. I have to say, it took me by surprise. When I resigned from the Los Angeles Times in protest of the paper’s currying favor with the Tru...
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.
- Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
- Advanced AI Is Ultrahazardous. Let’s Treat It That Way† 🔥Advanced AI creates some degree of risk to digital infrastructure that cannot be fully mitigated, writes Keith Porcaro.
- Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools 🔥The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...
- Top Connecticut court warns lawyers on AI risks after fake citations 🔥Connecticut's highest state court issued a warning to lawyers that they remain responsible for the accuracy of court filings produced with generative AI, using a decision about fabricated case citations to underscore attorneys' ethical obligations .
- The Misinformation Crisis and the AI Challenge | Calgary Public Library Misinformation is one of the greatest challenges of our time. AI is making it more challenging. How has the presence of AI changed how we find information, confirm facts, and share insights with other...
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 Collision of State Climate Tort Suits with Federal Deregulation 🔥🔥In its October 2026 term, the Supreme Court will review Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder, a tort case with significant implications for t ...
- The Future of Environmental Law Amid the Destruction of Science† 🔥Essay in the Harvard Environmental Law Review's Symposium Issue on the Future of Environmental Law One Year into Trump; responding to Richard Revesz's Invert ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment† Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- Shadow Forensics: Uncovering 911 Call Analysis Junk forensics have played a central role in wrongful convictions. From bitemark evidence to hair microscopy, from arson investigation to toolmark comparison, c ...
- The Incorporation Ritual What makes a business worth the corporate form? From Rome through England and America, the corporate form was granted only after an assessment that the undertak ...
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.
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
- Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies 🔥🔥🔥Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...
- Prompt Injection as Role Confusion† 🔥🔥LLMs see the world as a single stream of text, partitioned into roles like or . We trace prompt injection to role confusion: models perceive the source of text from how it sounds, not its...
- The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science† 🔥As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
- Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents† 🔥GUI agents have the potential to become a general purpose executor over existing digital devices. To advance them toward real-world use, we envision agents that operate reliably on real devices, execu...
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)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- evacide (@evacide.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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