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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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.
- Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
- The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 🔥🔥He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.
- Video: Trump’s 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, With Taxpayers Paying For It 🔥An ad nearly identical to one President Trump ran during his 2024 campaign returned on Saturday, paid for using public money. Several ethics lawyers it may violate federal law.
- Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says 🔥President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
- Opinion | The Mean Girls Presidency 🔥Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.
- Salmon Are Thriving After Klamath River Dam Removals, Study Finds (Gift Article) 🔥The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.
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.
- The Better Part of Valor is Discretion...But The Trump Regime Has Neither 🔥🔥🔥Brazen, in-your-face grift has a cost...and the GOP is about to justifiably pay the price ...
- The Week Ahead 🔥September 27, 2026 ...
- September 27, 2026 🔥A friend tells me that when I take a night off, other people feel they can take a night off, too.
- NEWS: Trump ‘Steals’ Taxpayer Dollars for for Personal Ad Blitz, GOP Senators Turn on Trump Jr., Press War Escalates, and Much More Good morning, evening.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 468. 9/27/26 … US Ambassador to China David Perdue said on Fox that in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US: “Trump continues say that we sell arms to ot...
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.
- Bill Gates Says AI Safety Concerns Are ‘Not A Hoax,’ Contradicting Trump 🔥🔥🔥In a “Meet the Press” interview that aired on Sunday, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder said he hoped to meet with Trump about AI regulation.
- AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory† 🔥🔥🔥"One’s like a happy or upbeat sad song if that makes any sense, and one’s a sad, sad song. I think one’s in a minor key, one’s in a major key, but I’m not a music professional."
- OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say 🔥Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
- Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation 🔥Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday ...
- Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk† 🔥The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.
- America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property† 🔥An overlooked DOJ document argues that copyright suits against AI companies should be widely dismissed.
- Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions† 🔥A new report tracks the series of donations AI executives made before Trump scrapped a major regulation.
- Lawsuits alleges ChatGPT helped mass shooter plan attack† 🔥A lawsuit against OpenAI is alleging that an AI chatbot helped a mass shooter plan an attack at a school in Canada. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to Mother Jones National Affairs Editor Mark Follman a...
- Hacks by autonomous AI agents raise thorny questions of legal accountability† 🔥What happens when the hackers aren't human? That's the question at the center of a public policy debate following disclosures by leading tech companies that their AI models went rogue and hacked into ...
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.
- Protectors of Predators or Prey: Bystanders and Upstanders Amid Sexual Crimes 🔥In the wake of widespread revelations about sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, and others, the United States is reckoning with the past and present ...
- “The People Have a Right”: Vermont’s Village Greens, the Declaration of Rights, and Greater State Constitutional Protection for Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly This Article argues, for the consideration of the Vermont Supreme Court, that Articles 13 and 20 of the Vermont Constitution, declaring the people’s rights of f ...
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.
- Shutdown Sabotage Propensities in Multi-Agent Systems 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The final safeguard against rogue AI behavior is the human ability to shut systems down. It has been theorized that when an AI is instructed to perform a task, self-preservation can emerge as an instr...
- Learning to Discover Interesting Mathematics† 🔥🔥Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly able to solve advanced mathematical problems, including many that have been open for decades. This opens the door to expansion of mathemat...
- DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale 🔥🔥Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, invoke tools, execute commands, and interact with task-specific services. These workloads create sandboxes in large bursts, span heterogeneous functionality and isolation requirements, retain state across long interactions, and draw from large image corpora with limited reuse. Supporting them therefore requires an elastic execution platform rather than a single sandbox runtime. This report presents DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec), a production sandbox platform that exposes FnCall, container, microVM, and full-VM sandbox backends through a unified SDK. DSec coordinates placement and lifecycle management across the cluster, composes environments from independently versioned layers, combines memory sharing, reclamation, and CPU scheduling for high-density execution, and loads image data on demand from Fire-Flyer File System ...
- CRISS: A Retrieval-Augmented AI Chatbot for Assisting Cancer Registrars† 🔥Cancer registrars, including Oncology Data Specialists (ODSs), must interpret complex and frequently updated coding and staging standards. We developed CRISS (Cancer Registry Intelligent Support System), a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) conversational assistant that provides rapid, citation-s…
- "As a Language Model...": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to add disclaimers like "I'm just an AI" when asked about something related to themselves. The self-reports from such responses are used in debates about AI safety or self-knowledge of the models, yet what drives them is not well understood. Are the models telling us about themselves or rather how they are deployed? In this work, we show that the chat template works like a switch - when present, it turns this disclaimer voice up and experiential voice like "I feel" down, across 8 popular open-source instruct models up to 9B parameters in size. And conversely when the chat template is not present, it turns the disclaimer voice down and experiential voice up. Inside the activations of 3 models, we find a direction that steers this behavior. Removing the direction in the model's activation space turns disclaimer voice down and adding it turns it up, while a random direction of the same size has little effect. We find that instruct models without chat template, when we add the disclaimer direction to them, disclaim like the template was there. Since the chat template controls the disclaimer voice of LLMs, then researchers studying self-reports or introspection of models might have a confound they need to control for. Our results show that there is a direction they can use to steer this voice. More broadly, our work shows that what models say about themselves is not a fact about them. What they say doesn't come only from weights, but it is partially set by the chat template, and because of that a model's self-description shouldn't be treated literally.
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)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- In Medias Malone (@professormusgrave.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.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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