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.
- Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
- Quantifying anger in American politics 🔥🔥🔥The country is awash in indignation ...
- Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles 🔥🔥Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.
- How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article) 🔥🔥For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.
- South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows† 🔥Exclusive: Friends of the Earth finds greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset ...
- Pet owners at risk of being ripped off by private equity firms as vet ownership rules change 🔥Critics say changes by CMA will allow multinationals to obscure their ownership of vet practices ...
- Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE 🔥Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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.
- Can America Ever Regain Its Honor? 🔥🔥🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- The Week Ahead August 30, 2026 ...
- Annie Lowrey on the Time Tax A new book details the scale of the administrative burdens we face ...
- Major Good News Roundup! Independent Journalism is Surging and Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity! Good morning, everyone.
- August 30, 2026 One of our founding myths is that of George Washington and the cherry tree.
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.
- One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators ...
- The Trump DOJ Is Running Out of Ways to Humiliate Itself In Public† 🔥Another week, another argument from your federal government that would be kind of embarrassing if a high school sophomore tried to make it.
- Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says† 🔥xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
- Grok Not Only Generates Child Porn but Was Also Trained On It, New Lawsuit Claims† 🔥A plaintiff is claiming that CSAM was used to train Grok.
- ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit† ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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.
- Freedom as a Constitutional Value† 🔥This chapter explores what it means to treat “freedom” as a constitutional value. Specifically, it focuses on the implications of the republican idea of free ...
- Technical transparency and trust in AI regulation† As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more common in our lives and societies, their technical complexity creates various obstacles to legal scruti ...
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 misclassification of autistic writing as AI-generated 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- An Echo Chamber of One: Should AI Psychosis Be a Distinct Clinical Entity?† 🔥🔥"AI psychosis" has entered public and clinical discourse as a label for the onset or exacerbation of psychotic symptoms, most commonly delusions, following intensive interaction with large language mo...
- Lower bound on the thickness of broadband dielectric mirrors† 🔥We present a lower bound on the total physical thickness of a lossless, non-dispersive dielectric mirror for a given minimum reflectance across a wavelength band. The bound is based on a causality-bas...
- Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)† 🔥Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs...
- FLARE: Verifying MILP Reformulations with LLM-Based Theorem Proving† ArXiv link for FLARE: Verifying MILP Reformulations with LLM-Based Theorem Proving ...
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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