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.
- Grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Hutchinson, a former White House aide, testified before lawmakers about President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
- Grand Jury Declines to Bring Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥The rejection of the indictment was the latest extraordinary setback in President Trump’s wide-ranging campaign to go after his political opponents.
- Trump Explores Lifting Sanctions on Russia’s Flagship Investment Fund 🔥The move would be the latest U.S. concession to Moscow as President Trump pursues economic incentives he hopes will secure an end to war in Ukraine.
- Steve Bannon urges Trump to turn the heat up on universities - The Boston Globe 🔥Even after funding cuts, visa restrictions, and other challenges to higher ed, the MAGA influencer thinks the right has "missed a golden opportunity."
- AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban 🔥Three-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research finds ...
- E.P.A. to Loosen Methane Rules for Oil Firms (Gift Article) 🔥The Biden administration had sought to crack down on methane leaks, a big driver of climate change. Those rules are now being scaled back.
- The Epstein files are a sledgehammer for the US midterms | Katie Phang 🔥Voters have a chance to break America’s two-tiered system of justice and hold powerful people accountable ...
- Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for the U.S. Trump’s administration is taking him in. 🔥The defeated Brazilian presidential candidate was ordered to surrender his passport. Instead, he went north, following the path his father took.
- ChatGPT’s Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences (Gift Article) 🔥The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors, advice that came with devastating consequences.
- Flavio Bolsonaro headed to the US after losing Brazil election, sources say 🔥Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports,...
- UK Home Office May Face Investigation Over Use of OpenAI Tech 🔥A government watchdog is considering a probe into the Home Office’s use of ChatGPT technology to process asylum claims amid concerns over the tools’ accuracy and secrecy surrounding their use.
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.
- Bring Me the Head of Cassidy Hutchinson! 🔥🔥The administration’s nastiest reprisal prosecution yet may also be its most self-destructive.
- NEWS: Alarm Bells Go Off as Trump Jr. Hunts With Russian Oligarch, Court Orders Release of Musk’s Election Emails, Trump has Brutal Personal Day 🔥🔥Good morning.
- Dems going after trans people this week should be ashamed of themselves 🔥Be skeptical of those proposing instant solutions — especially when they involve making vulnerable people even more vulnerable.
- Another Really Bad Day in Court for Trump 🔥Today, word leaked out that a grand jury in the District of Columbia refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson.
- It’s now official, tech is the new tobacco New court documents make clearer than ever that Meta has been working hard to control the scientific narrative on their products ...
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.
- ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Chatbots are building "algorithmic self-portraits" of users as they retain information for a hyper-personalized experience, a study warns.
- We cannot under any circumstances let AI firms govern the future† 🔥🔥🔥Anthropic is trying to write its own laws. And all the AI firms have proposals for how their AI will serve the public. Here’s what they have in common--and why we shouldn’t accept any of them.
- Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy 🔥"Historically, decompilation has been a brutally difficult, time consuming task." Now, AI is trivially doing it.
- New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare’s AI Experiment 🔥New records obtained by EFF expose additional issues with Medicare’s AI-driven prior authorization program and show why we need stronger legal limits around government use of automated decision-making...
- This Might Be the Trump DOJ’s Stupidest Legal Argument Yet 🔥In Alaska, Trump lawyers are now functionally rewriting federal statutes and hoping judges won't notice.
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 RESILIENCE OF COPYRIGHT LAW: AFTER THE SUPREME COURT SPEAKS 🔥The federal judiciary plays a central role in developing copyright law. With Congress largely inactive in recent decades and with no administrative age ...
- How to Cite Artificial Intelligence in Court Filings by Catherine Martin Christopher, Chandler Davis, Loryn McFall :: SSRN Little advice exists on when and how responsible, ethical lawyers should cite AI in court filings. This Article provides common-sense guidance to litigation par ...
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.
- math/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Cheap AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering and What It Will Do 🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative AI is putting the law of reverse engineering (RE) under severe strain. Existing IP and technology laws assume that RE is expensive and time-consuming, and that it requires specialized exper...
- TasteVal: Measuring the Experimental Research Taste of AI Systems Against Human Experts† 🔥We introduce TasteVal, a benchmark to evaluate the experimental research taste of frontier models. We define research taste as the ability to pick interesting problems to solve, design experiments, an...
- Atlas of Human-AI Interaction: An Interactive Knowledge Graph for Research Sensemaking at Scale ArXiv link for Atlas of Human-AI Interaction: An Interactive Knowledge Graph for Research Sensemaking at Scale ...
- Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits† The scientific claims drawn from LLM social simulations should be no stronger than the robustness audits that support them. Generative agents bring new expressive power to agent-based modeling, enabli...
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)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- ghost malone ergo propter bones (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Marc Veldhoen (@marcveld.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (relegated)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (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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