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.
- Major Quake Hits Colombia, Killing at Least 111 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Rescue crews and regular people searched for survivors, and the death toll was likely to rise. More than 1,500 homes were damaged, the president said.
- Opinion | He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him. 🔥🔥Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.
- Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales 🔥🔥Exclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave ...
- Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat† 🔥🔥The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
- Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice 🔥Exclusive: Grid operator Neso can now respond with rolling blackouts as last resort without need for government powers ...
- ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom 🔥Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
- How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed 🔥Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.
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.
- Judge Declines To Let Trump Go Postal 🔥🔥🔥Believe them when they tell you who you are.
- NEWS: Trump Fled an Iran Assassination Plot in a Catering Truck. Now He Won't Rule Out Seizing America's Elections. A Major Update. 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Important Update: Trump Rapidly Consolidates Power, Ethics Watch Dogs Sound Alarm Over Corruption, Trump Silent as Catering Truck Story Engulfs White House 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 438. 8/11/26 … WaPo broke a wild story last night that Trump abandoned Air Force One and hid in a catering truck so he could be transferred to another plane on the tarmac to fly from Turkey after the NATO summit.
- Texas Republicans Plan to Banish Muslims Ban halal food, ban hijabs, and bring back banishment. That's the Texas GOP plan for 2027.
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.
- Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...
- Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Li Linlin cried for days after losing her virtual boyfriend. She exchanged about 700,000 words with him over two years and never got to say goodbye when he was eliminated by ByteDance, the developer of TikTok.
- Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack† 🔥The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- Brazil's Electoral Court Wants Platform Compliance Plans. Can It Enforce Them?† 🔥Platforms will have to provide comprehensive and structured information on various phenomena related to elections, writes Laís Martins.
- A Pillar of Environmental Enforcement Is Targeted by Trump Administration and Musk’s AI Company Right-leaning legal activists along with Elon Musk’s AI company are challenging the right of private groups to sue over violations of many major laws.
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.
- No legal standards for adjudicating the proportionality of primary social security law: R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025] UKSC 42† 🔥Case note commenting on the UK Supreme Court's recent judgment in R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2025]
- What is the Business of the Warren Court?† 🔥Today's Supreme Court is conservative whereas the Warren Court was liberal. Yet the substantive principles underlying these two Courts are more compatible than ...
- Framing Religious Constitutionalism† Scholarship considering Christian, Islamic, or other forms of religious constitutionalism has tended to focus on harmonizing constitutional texts with tradition ...
- Is the Right of Parents to Direct Their Children's Education "Deeply Rooted" in our "History and Tradition"?† In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protects unenumerated rights that are "deeply rooted ...
- How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and w ...
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.
- People construct simplified mental representations to plan† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because plans...
- HiSparse: Scaling Sparse-Attention Decoding with Hierarchical KV Cache Management 🔥ArXiv link for HiSparse: Scaling Sparse-Attention Decoding with Hierarchical KV Cache Management ...
- Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery 🔥ArXiv link for Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery ...
- Alignment has a Fantasia Problem ArXiv link for Alignment has a Fantasia Problem ...
- When Do LLMs Admit Their Mistakes? Understanding The Role Of Model Belief In Retraction ArXiv link for When Do LLMs Admit Their Mistakes? Understanding The Role Of Model Belief In Retraction ...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.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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