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.
- Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
- They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE 🔥🔥🔥After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
- Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire 🔥Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump ...
- Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers The museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop.
- Trump Loyalist Joseph diGenova Quits ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case The inquiry has sought to link disparate criminal inquiries into the president as a multiyear scheme to damage his political prospects.
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.
- Five Questions with Judd Legum 🔥🔥🔥American journalist, lawyer, and political writer ...
- Our Shared Duty to Drive Change 🔥🔥Let’s recognize the fierce urgency of now, on this 9/11 anniversary and as we look ahead to November ...
- Important Friday Night News Update Happy Friday, everyone.
- NEWS: Trump Furious After Convention Fails, Official Resigns Calling Out DOJ's Ethical Failures, Remembering 9/11, New War Erupts Twenty five years after September 11th, America paused to remember nearly 3,000 lives lost, even as new chaos consumed the present.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 457. 9/11/26 … Trump fell asleep again in the middle of the day, this time at the 9/11 service held at the Pentagon.
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.
- 'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
- San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads† 🔥🔥🔥The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
- The Hugging Face hack shows what happens when AI agents work together† 🔥Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, says the attack presents a narrow window for humans to act.
- Elon Musk’s Lawyer Seeks Seat in Congress - The American Prospect Chris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems.
- Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?† "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
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.
- 'She Doesn't Even Go Here!': For Women Scotland and Northern Ireland Law 🔥🔥The UK Supreme Court's For Women Scotland (FWS) decision has caused considerable and controversial impact upon equality law's protections for trans people in Gr ...
- Parody of What?† Barbie. Barney. The Elf on the shelf. Gone with the Wind. Grease. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Walt Disney. Don Henley. WWF wrestlers. Viral music vid ...
- 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 ...
- Algorethics and Neuro-Symbolic Military AI: Ontologies, "Hellscapes," Just War, and Silicon Valley† Algorethics, as described in the Rome Call for AI Ethics (2020) and related documents, is an overarching field that includes algorithmic accountability, s ...
- Using Business Law to Build Labor Power This Essay seeks to initiate a conversation amongst scholars who study labor law and social movement lawyering regarding the role of business law in building la ...
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.
- Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥It is no longer hypothetical: U.S. government agencies are using AI to write regulations. We therefore must grapple with the intersection of the Administrati ...
- How LLMs Build Fictional Worlds: Setting and Narrative Space in AI-Generated Creative Storytelling 🔥🔥In this paper, we analyze how Large Language Models (LLMs) employ worldbuilding strategies, focusing on setting as one measurable dimension of storyworld construction. We compare 1,000 AI-generated st...
- AI Corporate Governance and Ben & Jerry's Risk† 🔥🔥This paper critically analyzes the governance arrangements of OpenAI and Anthropic. These firms have an unusual built-in conflict: each raises funds from profit ...
- More than half of recent astronomy papers are written with language-model assistance 🔥Language models leave a distinctive vocabulary in the prose they help write, and we measure how much of the astronomy literature now carries it. From the full text of 207,111 astro-ph papers spanning ...
- The Steep Cost of Capture† 🔥In considering how to tackle this onslaught of industrial AI, we must first recognize that the “advances” in AI celebrated over the past decade were not due to ...
- Calibrating AI automation and its labor market impacts 🔥We are early in the latest AI technological revolution, and there are vastly different projections circulating about the impact of AI on the labor market; most ...
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)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.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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