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.
- Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling ...
- We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist 🔥🔥🔥🔥NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
- Mexico’s president stops turning the other cheek 🔥🔥Claudia Sheinbaum has abandoned her cool demeanour as Donald Trump attacks her political party ...
- In Confirming Blanche, Senators Endorse a Justice Dept. Under Trump’s Sway (Gift Article) 🔥Time and again, Todd Blanche has made it clear that he believes President Trump possesses a nearly limitless right to directly control the actions of the Justice Department.
- Hunter Biden talks about how his father’s cancer has spread and is causing him pain 🔥Joe Biden’s prostate cancer is reportedly ‘debilitating’, even as ex-president continues to speak out on public issues ...
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.
- Saturday Night Update: Congress Prepares Mass Investigations of Trump Those that Enabled Them as I Found Blanche in the Epstein Files 🔥🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Saturday Update: Trump Fumes as SAVE Act Does not Pass, Generals Race to Find Iran Off-Ramp, Blanche Confirmed, and Much More 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Three examples of how Trump's lawlessness is spreading — and how the other branches are failing 🔥Todd Blanche is confirmed as attorney general, Stephen Miller is backing a new birthright citizenship executive order, and Judge Emily Marks won't dismiss the SPLC indictment.
- Republican Senate Confirms Trump As Attorney General 🔥The Vote to Confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General is Catastrophic ...
- August 8, 2026 At 4:00 this morning, just before they left for a five-week recess, Senate Republicans confirmed Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the position of Attorney General of the United States.
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.
- Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools† 🔥🔥🔥The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...
- Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”† 🔥🔥🔥Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...
- ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows† 🔥🔥In today’s episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.
- How AI is breaking the British state† 🔥Equipped with models and agents, citizens could bring government to a halt ...
- Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses† 🔥The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
- Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data† 🔥We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
- What to Know About China’s First AI Companion Rules† 🔥China's new rules limiting the use of A.I. companion systems reveal a gap in how the United States regulates A.I. chatbots.
- Brazil's Electoral Court Wants Platform Compliance Plans. Can It Enforce Them?† 🔥Platforms will have to provide comprehensive and structured information on various phenomena related to elections, writes Laís Martins.
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.
- The Chadha Presidency† 🔥🔥🔥Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the ans ...
- Immigration is Not Invasion† In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School (Excerpt from 'The Law of Law School')† Law school creates a challenging educational environment for all students. A “Letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School” offers words of comfort and encour ...
- Amicus Brief of Antitrust Law, Economics, and Business Professors in Support of Plaintiffs - US v. Google D.C Circuit† Amici curiae are dozens of professors of law, economics, and business who have researched and published extensively on antitrust issue ...
- Supreme Court Impacts in Public Health Law: 2025-2026† In an increasingly contemptuous political environment as the nation prepares to celebrate its sesquicentennial on July 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court capped it ...
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.
- MDArena: Evaluating Coding Agents on Realistic Molecular Dynamics Workflows† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Accelerating scientific discovery is among the most consequential applications of AI, and computational biomolecular simulation stands out as a particularly promising target within this broader effort...
- The Environmental Impacts of Machine Learning Training Keep Rising Evidencing Rebound Effect 🔥🔥🔥Recent Machine Learning (ML) approaches have shown increased performance on benchmarks but at the cost of escalating computational demands. Hardware, algorithmic and carbon optimizations have been pro...
- Grounded world models in biological organisms and future embodied AI† 🔥🔥🔥Recent advances in generative and embodied AI have been driven by large-scale predictive learning over multimodal data. However, the resulting systems remain largely based on passive training regimes ...
- Amicus Brief of Antitrust Law, Economics, and Business Professors in Support of Plaintiffs - US v. Google D.C Circuit† 🔥🔥🔥Amici curiae are dozens of professors of law, economics, and business who have researched and published extensively on antitrust issue ...
- An Early Warning of Emerging Biosecurity Risks in Frontier LLMs† 🔥🔥Frontier large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into scientific workflows, yet their growing biological capabilities may outpace current safeguards. To assess the biological risks of...
- The crisis of AI-generated mathematics 🔥In this essay, I present the case for total opposition to the use of artificial intelligence in mathematics. I offer proposals for how individuals, departments, journals, and institutions can act in c...
- Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning 🔥ArXiv link for Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning ...
- Marked Pedagogies: Examining Linguistic Biases in Personalized Automated Writing Feedback† 🔥Effective personalized feedback is critical to students' literacy development. Though LLM-powered tools now promise to automate such feedback at scale, LLMs are not language-neutral: they privilege st...
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)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (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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