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.
- Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Water company tells creditors it will not survive long enough to agree refinancing deal without more money ...
- New NHS England policy for trans people could have ‘a number of adverse impacts’, report finds 🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: rules on same-sex wards could lead to delays in care, discrimination and animosity between groups, finds internal assessment ...
- The Birds I Waited 45 Years to See 🔥🔥An evolutionary biologist returns to New Zealand to find the rare birds he dreamed of seeing as a child making an extraordinary comeback.
- Most of Ken Paxton’s Money Can Be Traced to One Man: Elon Musk 🔥🔥The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
- Opinion | To Russia With Love, Signed Donald 🔥🔥Trump waives sanctions and tariffs under the Lindsey Graham law.
- Opinion | I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. 🔥🔥Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.
- UK could quickly re-enter EU with ‘Switzerland plus’ deal, senior MEP says 🔥Bernd Lange, who was involved in Brexit talks, says deal could be negotiated within months of any decision to deepen ties ...
- Opinion | How to End Gerrymandering (Gift Article) 🔥A ban on extreme partisan gerrymandering could restore much of the congressional diversity that the Voting Rights Act initially made possible.
- Bank of England governor walks out of IMF summit in protest against Russia 🔥Andrew Bailey among finance leaders to leave session in Bangkok when Russian finance minister addressed group ...
- Trump shares plan to overhaul East Potomac golf course amid court fight over land 🔥The historic public facility will close for about 15 months, he said. Government attorneys have stressed in court that the president's broader redevelopment remained conceptual.
- Electricity costs put UK steelmakers in worst position in three years against EU rivals 🔥Premium paid over French counterparts has risen to almost £30 a megawatt hour, analysis by lobby group finds ...
- More NHS staff sacked over Nottingham attacks victims' records 🔥Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust says a new system will be brought in to protect records.
- Exclusive | Putin Floats a Summit With Trump and Xi to Discuss Ukraine Deal 🔥Ukraine’s Zelensky would not be included in the proposed talks, as Russia’s leader seeks to negotiate an end to the conflict that favors Moscow.
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.
- Rape as a weapon of war 🔥🔥The voices of Ukrainians ...
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥October 18. 2026 ...
- When Democrats win the House, they must investigate Elon Musk and bar future government contracts! 🔥Democrats must go after Musk!
- Important Sunday Update!! Major Good News! 🔥Good morning, everyone!
- Important: Russia Declares ‘Checkmate’ as Trump Pushes Ukraine to Capitulate, Vance Confronted by Grieving Husband, GOP in Free Fall 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 ...
- Podcast: Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo† 🔥🔥How Raven, previously known as Geospy, can now find which house a photo was taken in; why a judge ruled a Flock search unconstitutional; and the wild AI video in a court case.
- 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.
- 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."
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 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 use and Risk Disclosure by Investment Advisers Introduction: Investment advisers increasingly report using artificial intelligence (AI), but little is known about what they disclose about it in fiduciary fil ...
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.
- 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 ...
- [2307.09288] Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models The paper presents Llama 2, a collection of language models from 7 to 70 billion parameters, designed for dialogue applications. Llama 2-Chat models outperform current open-source options, with enhanc ...
- FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery Existing agent benchmarks typically evaluate agents on well-specified tasks defined by issue reports, specifications, or task tickets. Real-world customer delivery is different: forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) must clarify ambiguous requirements, work in live systems, and uncover unstated constra…
- MSP: Modality Self-Play for Training Multimodal LLMs Without Paired Cross-Modal Data Large multimodal models have achieved remarkable progress by scaling model capacity and training on massive paired multimodal data. However, this paradigm introduces a fundamental bottleneck: aligned multimodal datasets are expensive to curate, difficult to scale across diverse modality combination…
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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