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.
- Ex-Congressman George Santos Receives Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The decision comes after a federal regulator alleged he made more than $17,000 by placing bets on his attendance at the State of the Union address.
- Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article) 🔥🔥Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
- Exclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth 🔥🔥Dan Driscoll had a close relationship with ousted Army chief of staff.
- Trump Live Updates: White House Ballroom Construction Can Continue, Supreme Court Rules 🔥
- Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations 🔥A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
- Nepal Puts Cost of Disaster at $5 Billion, Blaming Climate Change (Gift Article) 🔥The country is seeking urgent help from a special U.N. climate fund, but the program lacks money because the United States and others have been reluctant to contribute.
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.
- Will Future Generations Blame Us All? 🔥🔥🔥🔥Or will they recognize that most of us were mad as hell and refused to take it?
- Our Trade War Against Ourselves Treating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way ...
- Why Can’t the Supreme Court Tell Trump No? I suppose the title for this piece is a purely rhetorical question at this point.
- 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker 1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
- Breaking: Supreme Court’s GOP appointees, on a 5-4 vote, allow Trump’s ballroom construction to proceed Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, for himself and the three Democratic appointees. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
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.
- One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators ...
- ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit† ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
- Big Tech Crashes Headlong Into American Democracy - The American Prospect The AI oligarchs thought they could stuff data centers down the throats of the American people. They thought wrong.
- Man who posed as SF 49er to scam women tricked AI, Google, court docs say (KRON) — Artificial intelligence may have inadvertently given a hand to a man who prosecutors say posed as a wealthy San Francisco 49ers player in order to scam women on dating apps. ThatR…
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic “One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
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.
- AI, Governance and Ethics: Global Perspectives 🔥🔥Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology which is increasingly being utilised in society and the economy worldwide, but there is much disquiet over problema ...
- Freedom as a Constitutional Value† 🔥This chapter explores what it means to treat “freedom” as a constitutional value. Specifically, it focuses on the implications of the republican idea of free ...
- Technical transparency and trust in AI regulation† As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more common in our lives and societies, their technical complexity creates various obstacles to legal scruti ...
- The Reemergence of Religious Freedom Arguments in Abortion Rights Litigation Since Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, religious freedom arguments for abortion rights have gained renewed traction in both legal scholarship ...
- A Visual Guide to Adjudication and Validity This paper represents some of the most popular conceptual and normative possibilities about legal rules and legal validity as Venn diagrams. Doing so sheds ligh ...
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.
- The Net Climate Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Balancing Current Costs with Future Climate Benefits 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This chapter asks a deceptively simple but unresolved question: what is the net impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change? Research has largely f ...
- The misclassification of autistic writing as AI-generated† 🔥🔥🔥
- An Echo Chamber of One: Should AI Psychosis Be a Distinct Clinical Entity?† 🔥🔥"AI psychosis" has entered public and clinical discourse as a label for the onset or exacerbation of psychotic symptoms, most commonly delusions, following intensive interaction with large language mo...
- Lower bound on the thickness of broadband dielectric mirrors† We present a lower bound on the total physical thickness of a lossless, non-dispersive dielectric mirror for a given minimum reflectance across a wavelength band. The bound is based on a causality-bas...
- Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)† Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs...
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)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (relegated)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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