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.
- Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year ...
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says, ‘If Abdul Can Win in Michigan, Anybody Can Win Anywhere’ (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, as she considers whether to run for president in 2028.
- Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget 🔥🔥🔥Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
- Kemi Badenoch: I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UK 🔥🔥The Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds.
- Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads 🔥A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
- OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic 🔥The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
- US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel 🔥Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend ...
- Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government 🔥James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
- Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads (Gift Article) 🔥The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
- Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego 🔥Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
- Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared (Gift Article) 🔥However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
- How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits (Gift Article) 🔥Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.
- Exclusive | U.S. Escalates Pressure on Russia Over Siberia Lab Death 🔥The U.S. has warned Moscow that its failure to disclose details about the death violates international health obligations.
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.
- Pat Robertson Tried It While Campaigning. Will Trump Fare Any Better? 🔥🔥But he shouldn’t.
- NEWS: “Treasonous”—Trump Faces Bipartisan Outrage Over California Comments, Calls for Journalists' Arrest, Measles Hits 35-Year High 🔥🔥Good morning, everyone.
- October 6, 2026 🔥Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.
- Federal Fraud Charges Resonate With Debunked Non-Citizen Voting Narratives 🔥A flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger ...
- NEWS: Trump Faces Calls for Removal, Teases "Big Surprises" for the Midterms, Blocks Election Observers Like Russia and Belarus, and More 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 475. 10/6/26 🔥… A new Gallup poll shows that more Americans now identify as Democrats than at any point since 2009.
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.
- AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
- Here’s How To Reduce the Existential Risks 🔥If there’s no other way ...
- Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits ...
- Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse Sam Altman's sister amended her civil lawsuit accusing the OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, after the judge said she could try pursuing her case under Missou...
- Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight' "Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
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.
- Poor People Lose: Gideon and the Critique of Rights 🔥🔥A low income person is more likely to be prosecuted and imprisoned post-Gideon than pre-Gideon. Poor people lose in American criminal justice not ...
- Between Sanctions and Judicial Reasoning: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender Justice in Khalwat Cases in Aceh† Cases involving jarīmah khalwat in Aceh raise questions about the application of 'uqūbat and judicial reasoning toward male and female defendants. This study ex ...
- Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting Whether AI assistance builds or erodes professional expertise is unsettled. In a pre-registered three-month randomized controlled trial, we gave 133 practicing ...
- The Medicalization of Abortion Rights† In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, advocates brought numerous constitutional challenges ...
- The Union Gospel Mission Cases, Church Autonomy, and Co-Religionist Hiring: A Response to Professor Esbeck† Courts have increasingly applied a doctrine of church autonomy to resolve claims involving religious organizations. A recent decision of the Ninth Circuit ...
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 at main · openai/math 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy† 🔥🔥🔥arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
- math/preprints/Entanglement-with-zero-distillable-secret-key-in-local-dimension-ten-September-27-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
- math/preprints/A-Polynomial-Time-2-Approximation-for-Shortest-Common-Superstring-September-24-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
- math/preprints/Exact-Derandomization-of-Logarithmic-Space-L-equals-RL-equals-BPL-September-23-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.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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