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.
- Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
- Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete 🔥🔥🔥🔥The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.
- How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
- Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms 🔥The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
- Hegseth Targets 7 More Officers as His Frustrated Army Secretary Quits (Gift Article) 🔥The defense secretary’s cuts, which have hit about 10 percent of the military’s top officers, are dividing the Pentagon, officials said.
- Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadowed a future of climate disaster | Michael Mann 🔥The deluge capped a summer of extreme climate events, from deadly heatwaves to wildfires. We must take action now ...
- Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail 🔥A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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.
- I Doubt You’re Surprised 🔥🔥🔥There’s a whistleblower addressing the USPS plan to implement Trump’s EO on mail ballots ...
- Major Update: Massie Reads Epstein Co-Conspirators Names, USPS Whistleblower Sounds Alarm, Mass Army Resignations 🔥🔥Good morning.
- September 1, 2026 🔥Yesterday, by a vote of 5–4, the United States Supreme Court allowed Trump to continue to build his ballroom.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 453. 9/1/26 … Trump bombed Iran again today.
- Do You Have Questions About The Weather And Climate Change? Join Meteorologist John Morales and me for a Substack Live Monday at 9pm ET ...
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.
- Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic 🔥🔥🔥A federal judge has sided with Anthropic on its claims that the Department of Defense illegally retaliated against Anthropic’s protected speech by labeling the AI company a “supply chain risk.”
- Big Tech Crashes Headlong Into American Democracy - The American Prospect† 🔥🔥🔥The AI oligarchs thought they could stuff data centers down the throats of the American people. They thought wrong.
- Man who posed as SF 49er to scam women tricked AI, Google, court docs say† 🔥🔥(KRON) — Artificial intelligence may have inadvertently given a hand to a man who prosecutors say posed as a wealthy San Francisco 49ers player in order to scam women on dating apps. ThatR…
- Remark – #687 in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., 4:24-cv-05417) – CourtListener.com 🔥🔥Remark ...
- California lawmakers pass bill governing lawyers' use of AI 🔥California's legislature has approved a first-of-its-kind state law setting rules for how lawyers are permitted to use generative artificial intelligence in their work.
- Jason Isbell, other musicians sue Suno over AI training 🔥A group of musicians including renowned singer-songwriter Jason Isbell has filed a class-action lawsuit against AI music generator Suno in Massachusetts federal court for allegedly violating their publicity rights.
- Governance by Shakedown 🔥How the administration converts legal pretexts into coercive leverage—and why the tactic works even when courts say no.
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.
- 9/11 and the Law of Domestic Military Deployments 🔥🔥🔥The legal architecture of the Defense Department’s domestic operations significantly changed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. This was perhaps most ...
- AI, Governance and Ethics: Global Perspectives† 🔥Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology which is increasingly being utilised in society and the economy worldwide, but there is much disquiet over problema ...
- Elections Aren't Failing, Democracy Is American democracy is in trouble, but not because of how our elections are conducted. To the contrary, election administration is one of the strongest links ...
- AI-Powered Lawyering: AI Reasoning Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and the Future of Legal Practice Generative AI is set to transform the legal profession, though its most promising uses and ultimate effects are still unclear. While AI models like GPT-4 improv ...
- Dear Prudence: The Atomic Origins, Decarbonization Deployment, and Transformative Potential of a Regulatory Principle This Article provides the first comprehensive account of the history and doctrine of imprudence disallowances, a utility regulation tool that has reemerged i ...
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.
- The Net Climate Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Balancing Current Costs with Future Climate Benefits† 🔥🔥🔥🔥This chapter asks a deceptively simple but unresolved question: what is the net impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change? Research has largely f ...
- The misclassification of autistic writing as AI-generated† 🔥🔥🔥
- Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach 🔥🔥We study a novel language model architecture that is capable of scaling test-time computation by implicitly reasoning in latent space. Our model works by iterating a recurrent block, thereby unrolling...
- AI, Governance and Ethics: Global Perspectives† Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology which is increasingly being utilised in society and the economy worldwide, but there is much disquiet over problema ...
- Beyond Surface Cues: Disentangling Sociocultural Signals in Multilingual LLMs Multilingual LLM outputs can vary across sociocultural contexts. However, evidence of cultural grounding can be misleading: identity labels may be inferred from explicit or indirect textual cues, whil...
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)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (relegated)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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