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.
- He spotted a sports relic in the thrift store. It’s about to make him rich. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An Oregon teenager’s surprising find for $3 in a thrift store bin could make him $250,000 at auction.
- Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations 🔥🔥Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
- Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM 🔥🔥Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon ...
- Failed Immigration Cases Leave Chicago Prosecutor’s Office Reeling 🔥Prosecutors have fled the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, angry about the cases they’ve been told to bring against protesters and immigrants.
- DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere. 🔥The fallout from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting venture can be found across the government if you know where to look.
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.
- Sunday Update: Republicans Break on Iran War as More Soldiers Die, World Cup Stadium Boos Trump, Save Act Loses GOP Senator, and More 🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- July 19, 2026 🔥Spent a lovely day with family and friends, and the fact the internet was down when I got home just confirmed I should take the night off.
- The Week Ahead 🔥July 19, 2026 ...
- Week Eight in 250 to 250 🔥This was the eighth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
- Major Good News Update, Exclusive Interview, and Morning Censorship!! 🔥Good morning, everyone, and happy Sunday.
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.
- San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.
- xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.† 🔥Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
- Senator Warner Makes a First Foray into Agentic AI Regulation† 🔥The AI AGENT Act is the first draft federal law to deal with agentic AI power, writes Rutgers legal scholar Ellen P. Goodman.
- US judge won't block Meta from laying off workers who filed AI discrimination lawsuit† A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a bid by 26 employees of Meta Platforms to block the tech giant from laying them off while they pursue claims that they were targeted for job cuts by the company's AI-powered tools because they have disabilities or took medical leave.
- EXCLUSIVE: Indonesia's copyright rewrite puts Google, AI platforms on notice† Indonesia is preparing sweeping changes to its copyright law, including granting copyright privileges to people who use artificial intelligence to help them generate content, a draft bill reviewed by Reuters showed, setting up a potential showdown between the government and major tech platforms.
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.
- Amicus Brief of Civil Procedure, Aggregate Litigation, Class Action, Legal Ethics, and Consumer Law Scholars in Opposition to Final Approval of Proposed Class Settlement (Roundup) † Seventeen legal scholars present a brief against the proposed class settlement involving the herbicide ROUNDUP, manufactured principally by Monsanto.&
- Originalism, Living Constitutionalism, and Our Current Constitutional Moment† This essay serves as an introduction to the Santa Clara Law Review’s 2026 symposium, “The Changing Landscape of Constitutional Interpretation and I ...
- The Ex Post Facto Clause: Its History and Role in a Punitive Society† The Ex Post Facto Clause, one of the few civil liberty protections found in the body of the U.S. Constitution, reflects the Framers' acute concern over the tend ...
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 False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs 🔥🔥🔥An emerging method to cheaply improve a weaker language model is to finetune it on outputs from a stronger model, such as a proprietary system like ChatGPT (e.g., Alpaca, Self-Instruct, and others). T...
- Excessive Custom Xbrl Tag Usage in 10-K Filings and Sec Oversight 🔥🔥🔥We conduct an in-depth examination of excessive custom XBRL tag usage in 10-K filings among U.S. firms. We discuss why some firms are prone to creating cu ...
- A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics 🔥🔥🔥A Lie group is an old mathematical abstract object dating back to the XIX century, when mathematician Sophus Lie laid the foundations of the theory of continuous transformation groups. As it often hap...
- Tricking an AI system & the Cybercrime Convention† 🔥In a 2018 paper that was only now brought to my attention, Calo et al. discuss whether “tricking a robot” constitutes hacking. They focus on five scenarios tha ...
- AI Agents Do Not Fail Alone:The Context Fails First† Context engineering has become central to building reliable AI agents, yet it remains largely unmeasured. Agents do not fail in isolation: their behavior is shaped by the instructions, tools, memory, ...
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)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Legal C (@legalclaret.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.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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