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.
- ‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
- Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda 🔥🔥🔥The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.
- Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
- Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers 🔥The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.
- Opinion | Could Jettisoning CNN Save the Paramount Merger? 🔥It’s a thorn in the side of David Ellison’s paused dream.
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.
- Is Todd Blanche’s Nomination in Trouble? 🔥🔥This afternoon, MSNOW’s Mychael Schnell tweeted: “Sen.
- NEWS: Trump Administration Suffers Extremely Rough Morning in Congress, the Courts, and the War—Epstein Files Brought to Congress 🔥🔥Good morning.
- NEWS: Trump Ally Calls for his Impeachment, Blanche Nomination in Big Trouble, I spent the Day with Survivors and Have Big Updates 🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- What is Fascism? 🔥The third lecture in my new course, "Hitler and Stalin today."
- Following SCOTUS ruling on Trump admin moves to end immigration protections, harm and fear spreads 🔥An appeals court order would allow DHS to end TPS for Ethiopia, but a district court has kept it in place for now. Immigrant communities affected are facing impossible choices.
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.
- Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota ...
- Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google† 🔥🔥🔥Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
- New lawsuit alleges Tesla's Houston test fleet was unsafe | Automotive World 🔥If Medrano's account holds up, Tesla's safety validation numbers may understate the severity of its deployment woes. By Stewart Burnett ...
- Elon Musk and X notch court win against California deepfake law† One of the country’s strictest bans on election deepfakes was defeated by a challenge from the tech billionaire.
- Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?† In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
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.
- Digital Policing after Chatrie† 🔥🔥Chatrie v. United States is a consequential Fourth Amendment opinion, and for Supreme Court watchers a surprising one in its scope ...
- A Faithful Execution Exception to Slaughter† 🔥In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court held that Article II permits a President to remove principal officers at will. Ostensibly, the removal power allows the ...
- Dismantling Equality Rights Through "Biological-Sex" Talk† 🔥In rejecting the sex-discrimination claims of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care in United States v. Skrmetti (2025) and transgende ...
- The State Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning† Exclusionary zoning is the biggest cause of the housing crisis besetting many parts of the United States. This Article shows how state constitutions can ...
- How to Reject a Law Review Article† Every submission season, law reviews reject thousands of articles. In doing so, they rely on rejection notification templates containing misleading tropes ...
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.
- Randomness in large language models: What researchers need to know (and report)† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for research. Typical use cases are classifications, annotations, information extraction, an ...
- Constraining the lives and times of exoplanets through evolutionary Bayesian retrievals 🔥🔥🔥Static retrieval frameworks are leading tools for interpreting exoplanet observations, yet time-independent modelling leaves them prone to degeneracy and unable to resolve exoplanets' histories. The c...
- Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories† 🔥LLM-generated stories are a popular use case, but they show very low variability. We sample 20,000 total stories from four current models using five prompts. We find that 11 words occur in 88.3% of ge...
- Persuasion Index: A Theory-Guided Framework for Persuasion Analysis† 🔥Identifying persuasive rhetorical cues is critical across domains, from detecting information manipulation and improving AI safety to advancing public health communication. We propose Persuasion Index...
- HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following 🔥Language-model agents are increasingly deployed under standing instructions: a system prompt, a policy file, or a skills document is placed in context, and the agent is trusted to let it govern every action that follows. Existing benchmarks rarely test this deployment pattern directly; they measure whether an agent can complete a task, not whether a long, binding policy document actually constrains its behavior over an extended tool-use horizon. We present HANDBOOK.md, a benchmark of 65 agentic tasks modeled on how enterprise employees follow company handbooks. Each task places an agent in a self-contained company environment, a file workspace together with mock email, chat, calendar, issue-tracking, and commerce services exposed over the Model Context Protocol, and instructs it to carry out routine professional work governed by an expert-written standard operating procedure of 20 to 124 pages. Tasks span five domains (finance, medical billing, insurance, logistics, and HR) and ten fictional companies. To resist memorization, every task modifies one of ten base handbooks, altering the specific rules and thresholds on which grading turns, so no two tasks share a policy. Grading is fully deterministic: each task carries a rubric of programmatic criteria (824 in total) that check both that required actions occurred and that prohibited actions did not. Under strict grading, where a trial passes only if every criterion is satisfied, the best of thirty evaluated model configurations passes 36.2% of trials, and most frontier configurations remain below 25%. Failures follow consistent patterns: agents let a plausible in-environment request override the standing policy, perform a required check and then act against its result, lose rule details over long horizons, and report compliance they did not achieve. We release all tasks, environments, and the evaluation harness.
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)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- evacide (@evacide.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (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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