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.
- ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push ...
- Hegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. 🔥🔥🔥🔥Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.
- Covert Russian Group Targets James Talarico With Baseless Claims in Texas Senate Race 🔥Russian influence operations appear to be stepping up efforts to meddle in the midterms, according to intelligence officials. Most are targeting Democrats.
- The Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal 🔥The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over o...
- The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...
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.
- Major Update: Exposing What the Pentagon is Hiding, DOJ Refuses to Rule Out Blocking Election Certification, Trump Order Under Oath 🔥🔥Good afternoon.
- “Pastoral, Not Political” — Archbishop Golka Prays Over Trump 12 Days Before the Election 🔥🔥Denver’s archbishop led bishops in prayer over Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, with Paula White at his side. Hours later, Trump told Vivek Ramaswamy to keep running an ad calling Amy Acton a lia ...
- Talking Feds Substack | Harry Litman | Substack 🔥Talking Feds Substack with Harry Litman is a series of dispatches from the front of a constitution in crisis. Harry explains how the maneuvers of Trump and his circle transgress constitutional norms a...
- The Chickens Make More Sense Than the President 🔥Today, the Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche, declined to rule out interfering with the outcome of the midterm elections.
- How Worried Should We Be? | Six Questions For Frank Figliuzzi 🔥In this latest episode, the FBI veteran assesses the threat of the Trump regime sabotaging our midterm elections ...
- October 22, 2026 🔥Alexander Ward and Lara Seligman of the Wall Street Journal reported today that Trump called Elon Musk yesterday to ask him to stop throttling Starlink’s military-grade communications system, Starshie...
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.
- Delivery Robots Accused Of Scanning Customers’ Faces, Sharing Biometric Data† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The battle over Chicago’s food delivery robots has reached the courts, with two customers accusing the companies behind them of collecting their biometric data without consent.
- HHS telework rollback challenge upheld by FLRA† 🔥Federal Labor Relations Authority members wrote that HHS seemingly used generative AI tools to draft its legal brief, since many of its citations were “fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant.”
- Save Seattle journalism — fair wages and AI protections now!† 🔥The economy is unpredictable, the cost of living is soaring, the political landscape jolts wildly on a daily basis. This is not news to anyone who reads The Seattle Times. And yet, the members of The ...
- 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 ...
- Appeals court lifts block on Mississippi's DEI ban, ejects judge over AI errors A federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a ruling that blocked Mississippi's ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, reassigning the case away from a district court judge who had acknowledged that a key ruling contained AI-generated errors.
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.
- Election-Related Search Warrants 🔥The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. In most instances, that standard requires a warrant issued upon a presentation of prob ...
- Redundant Amendments: What the Constitution Says When it Repeats Itself† We think of constitutional amendments as the mechanism through which the Constitution changes, but some amendments have been at least partially redundant. Their ...
- Litigating Personal Brand: Intellectual Property & the Construction of Self† The concept of “personal brand” is over half a century old but has reached total saturation in the era of social media. The idea of individual as brand encompas ...
- Introduction: Global Catastrophic Risk, Advanced AI, and International Law (In: International Catastrophe Law, CUP Forthcoming) International law has long been driven by the imperative to prevent mass harm to humanity. In a new era of global catastrophic risks, including from ...
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.
- A sub-Earth-sized TESS planet candidate in the nearby M-dwarf binary GJ 774, most likely orbiting GJ 774 A (TIC 351339274)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Small planets transiting the nearest M dwarfs are the terrestrial planets most accessible to detailed characterisation. We report a sub-Earth-sized transiting planet candidate in the wide (17.6") M-dw...
- Why are all LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture? On the Hidden Cultural and Regional Biases of LLMs 🔥LLMs have limitations when it comes to cultural coverage and competence, and in some cases, show specific cultural biases. Although prior studies have examined the cultural capabilities of LLMs, none ...
- Attention Is All You Need 🔥The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and d...
- AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons The scientific literature can be viewed as an "information commons:" an intangible resource that "no one owns and is shared by everyone." There are well-established economic and political frameworks f...
- The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of symb...
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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