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.
- Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
- Trump Live Updates: Canada Tariff Deadline, White House Ballroom Construction News and More 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference 🔥🔥🔥The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
- Royal Mail misses delivery targets again but hails 'encouraging' signs 🔥The struggling firm said it had improved its performance but missed regulator-set delivery targets.
- Pentagon Fires Editor and Publisher of Independent Military Publication (Gift Article) 🔥The firings at Stars and Stripes also claimed a Middle East correspondent. They are the latest effort by the Pentagon to diminish the news outlet’s editorial independence.
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.
- NEWS: Concerning Natalie Harp Letters Exposed, Billions Stolen From Pardon Victims, and 68,000 Indiana Homes Still Without Power 🔥🔥Buckle up because this morning’s newsletter has a lot: love letters, a catering truck escape, and a security clearance she avoided for over a year.
- Important Friday Update: MAGA Farmers Turn on Trump, Pentagon Launches Major First Amendment Assault, and More 🔥🔥Good evening.
- Defending the Bonds 🔥I am reporting for duty ...
- August 21, 2026 🔥On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and t...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 445. 8/21/26 🔥… Wild new revelations in the Natalie Harp saga as Daily Beast published a few of the letters she sent Trump during their trip to Scotland.
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.
- Florida Goes To Court And Asserts That OpenAI And Sam Altman Are Legally A Public Nuisance 🔥🔥🔥🔥Florida filed a legal case against OpenAI and Sam Altman that claims their AI is a public nuisance. This could open legal floodgates. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
- Oura Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Innacurate AI Sleep Tracking - CNET† 🔥A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses the popular smart ring company of false advertisement.
- The new kingmakers: Crypto, AI and betting firms fuel record spending on the 2026 midterms† 🔥A handful of billionaires and companies are driving corporate spending in U.S. midterm elections this year, and they aren’t the usual power brokers who have sat atop the political food chain in Washin...
- A battle over 'Italian brainrot' could shape who owns AI art A legal battle over what looks like a cartoon stick could help set the rules over whether creators can claim ownership of their AI-generated characters.
- Artificial Intelligence Policy† Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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 Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois† 🔥The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold alongside the development of Legal Realism, an intellectual movement whose rapid ri ...
- Public Nuisance & The First Amendment: Free-Speech Defenses to an Expanding Tort† Public nuisance—an ancient common-law tort traditionally limited to discrete, localized interferences with rights common to the public—has undergone a dramatic ...
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.
- Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language model (LLM) queries are predominantly processed by frontier models in centralized cloud infrastructure. Demand growth strains this paradigm faster than providers can scale. Two advances...
- Bringing analytic rigor to agentic AI for science: The Brain Researcher platform for neuroimaging data analysis 🔥AI agents can execute scientific analyses, but an analytic output becomes a defensible claim only after alternatives are weighed and the claim is limited to what the evidence supports. Agents may repr...
- Dead Science Walking: Publication Bias and the AI Scientist Pipeline† AI scientist systems are beginning to automate the production, evaluation, and iteration of scientific hypotheses. Their promise is speed; their risk is that speed also scales errors embedded in the s...
- AI and the Doctrine of Speakerless Speech† What makes speech “speech” for purposes of the First Amendment? Although the Supreme Court has developed elaborate doctrines governing when speech may be regula ...
- The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education† Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine ...
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)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- folukeifejola (@folukeifejola.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Legal AF (@legalafmtn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.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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