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.
- F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
- Federal Judge Pauses Deportation of Man Shot by ICE in Texas The Venezuelan immigrant was taken into federal custody with a bullet still lodged in his back, his lawyer says.
- Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
- Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover ...
- Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension ‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes ...
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.
- A Bad Tuesday in Maine if Your Name is Susan Collins 🔥🔥And a new order in Katie Phang’s Epstein Files case ...
- We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency 🔥🔥The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 465. 9/22/26 🔥🔥… A blockbuster new story from the amazing investigative journalists at ProPublica detailing blatant corruption by Sen.
- The Eighth Circuit, Missouri’s maps, and the mess the Roberts Court has brought about Even as the Supreme Court has tried to stop the Missouri maps chaos, it turns out that a lack of concern for precedent, rules, and stability have trickle-down effects.
- September 22, 2026 In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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.
- OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
- What Dems Should Do With 54 Senate Seats 🔥An eight-point agenda for turning a Senate majority into a mandate for action.
- Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.
- How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
- President Trump announces new ‘AI Force’ President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he is creating an “AI Force” without offering many details about its purpose.
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.
- Original Understandings of the U.S. Territories 🔥🔥Recently, judges and scholars alike have given renewed attention to the constitutional and legal status of the U.S. territories, including Founding-era understa ...
- Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025 🔥 Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi ...
- The Vulnerability of the Press, Academic Freedom, and Zealous Advocacy† The Supreme Court of the United States has long acknowledged that a free press, academic freedom, and zealous advocacy are essential to democracy and t ...
- The Fourth Amendment Limits of Internet Content Preservation† Every year, hundreds of thousands of Internet accounts are copied and set aside by Internet providers on behalf of federal and state law enforcement. This proce ...
- The Moral Obligations of Government Lawyers† All over the world, government lawyers have crucial roles, but in many nations, they are under considerable pressure, and they may be marginalized, ignored, fir ...
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.
- Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi ...
- Sparse Reward Subsystem in Large Language Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Recent studies show that LLM hidden states encode reward-related information, such as answer correctness and model confidence. However, existing approaches typically fit black-box probes on the full h...
- When AI Tutors Speak: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment 🔥🔥Students increasingly study alongside generative artificial intelligence (AI), yet unguided access to fluent answers invites cognitive offloading, and there is little evidence on which configurations ...
- "Okay, I've Actually Softened My Take on This": How People in Decentralized Social Media Reason about the Appropriateness of Generative AI† 🔥Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly integrated into social media, raising questions about whether, where, and how it belongs. In decentralized social media (DSM), these decisions are distributed acr...
- Has AI Assassinated God? Technology, Secularism, and the Death of the Divine† Nietzsche's declaration that "God is dead" was not a celebration of atheism but a warning about what happens when a society loses the transcendent aut ...
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)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin (@reginageorgebush.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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