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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ The Finite Scroll, an open-source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
- Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ 🔥🔥🔥Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
- Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death 🔥🔥Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes ...
- Burnham pledges to be 'relentless' in curbing small boat crossings 🔥The PM says enforcement is being increased but there also need to be more safe routes into the UK.
- How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners (Gift Article) An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥August 2, 2026 ...
- Is MAGA Melting Down? 🔥Signs and wonders, portents and data points ...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 431 🔥… Rep.
- Major Good News Updates!! We are Beating Fox News!! 🔥Good morning, everyone!
- Important Sunday Update: Bank Shuts Trump Accounts Over Anti-Money Laundering Issues as America Stands Alone on World Stage 🔥Good evening, everyone.
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.
- Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?† 🔥🔥🔥Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.
- I Think This Is Truly Fucking Stupid Dislike† 🔥🔥Alt: A "gif" from the Netflix show Orange is the New Black with a woman inmate with glasses saying " i think this is truly fucking stupid."
- Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal† 🔥🔥Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
- Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts† 🔥🔥It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.
- Advanced AI Is Ultrahazardous. Let’s Treat It That Way 🔥Advanced AI creates some degree of risk to digital infrastructure that cannot be fully mitigated, writes Keith Porcaro.
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 Future of Environmental Law Amid the Destruction of Science 🔥Essay in the Harvard Environmental Law Review's Symposium Issue on the Future of Environmental Law One Year into Trump; responding to Richard Revesz's Invert ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment† Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
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.
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
- Prompt Injection as Role Confusion† 🔥LLMs see the world as a single stream of text, partitioned into roles like or . We trace prompt injection to role confusion: models perceive the source of text from how it sounds, not its...
- The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science† 🔥As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
- Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents† GUI agents have the potential to become a general purpose executor over existing digital devices. To advance them toward real-world use, we envision agents that operate reliably on real devices, execu...
- Rethinking the Illusion of Thinking Earlier this year, Apple ignited controversy by publishing "The Illusion of Thinking," prompting heated debate within the AI community. Critics seized upon the findings as conclusive evidence that Lar...
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)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- evacide (@evacide.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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