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.
- Judge Blocks Immediate Closure of East Potomac Park for Trump Golf Project 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Judge Ana C. Reyes, who has been overseeing combative litigation, said the Trump administration would not be responsible for operating the course while the case proceeded.
- A Natural Gas Project Off Alaska’s Coast May Be a Russian Ploy for Intel on the Arctic 🔥🔥🔥Contractors for Polar Train LNG have been surveying the frigid Beaufort Sea for a natural gas project along Alaska’s North Slope. But CEO Joel Riddle resigned, claiming it’s all a Russian ploy.
- Nigel Farage’s security paid for by Reform UK despite claim over £5m gift 🔥🔥🔥Exclusive: Sources reveal party is covering costs – raising fresh questions about leader’s explanation for billionaire’s gift ...
- Russia Revives Demand That NATO Retrench to Secure Ukraine Deal 🔥The hard-line position of Russian officials in closed-door negotiations about ending the war thrusts European security into the heart of the talks.
- Guest Column | Stephen Miller dresses like a reasonable man. But listen to what he says. 🔥The new White House chief of staff understands how ordinary menswear can lend familiarity — and legitimacy — to an uncompromising worldview.
- Key Witness in Comey Case Attests to Justice Dept.’s Aggressive Tactics 🔥A former aide to James Comey at the F.B.I. said the government had engaged in a “harassment campaign” in its efforts to secure witness testimony.
- Ecuadorian fishermen who survived US boat strikes sue Trump administration 🔥US military has killed nearly 250 people in attack on ‘narco-terrorism’, and on 17 March, sank the 16 plaintiffs’ boat, leaving two with serious burns ...
- Italy fines Meta $887m for accessing Android users’ photos and videos 🔥The fine is among the largest an Italian authority has imposed on a tech giant and Meta says it plans to appeal the decision ...
- Did the Redistricting Wars Backfire on Republicans? In a Word, No. 🔥The G.O.P. was able to avoid more House midterm losses — on top of the advantage it already had from gerrymandering.
- U.S. Figures Iran Still Has up to 2,500 Missiles, Countering Trump Assertions 🔥The reconstitution of Tehran’s missile stockpile has factored into the Trump administration’s discussions about whether to resume strikes.
- The DOJ’s Failure in Chicago Will Have Nationwide Consequences 🔥When government lawyers appear in federal court, they enjoy something called “the presumption of regularity,” which is a fancy way of saying that judges give them the benefit of the doubt. President D...
- Interest rate rises likely in coming months, Bank of England’s chief economist says 🔥‘We have further to go,’ says Huw Pill after increase to 4% this month as Bank seeks to tackle rising inflation ...
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.
- Do You Have Any Reason to Trust These Guys? 🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- “Maybe Conservative Justices Will Die or Retire” Is Not a Plan For Supreme Court Reform 🔥🔥For as long as Democrats do not take Supreme Court expansion seriously, they are just preserving the power of the current six-justice conservative supermajority.
- Five Questions with Mississippi Voting Rights Lawyer Amir Badat† 🔥The election in Mississippi was not supposed to be a nail-biter.
- November 14, 2026 I just got home after what feels like a very long last few months, and I am very glad to be here.
- NEWS: Trump Absent as Ground Stop Impacts Millions, Americans are Furious—US loses Measles Elimination Status, Bomb in Illinois Good morning.
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.
- ‘Bring Back THE Boss’: Nvidia Employees Petition for Jensen Huang’s Return† 🔥🔥🔥🔥An internal post urging the board to consider employee sentiment about Nvidia’s former CEO has drawn more than 1,600 comments, the majority in full support of reinstalling him.
- OpenAI is betting a data center rebrand will make you hate them less† 🔥They’d really like you to call them “compute campuses” now.
- Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker† 🔥There is growing momentum for AI regulation. How will Congress act?
- 🤕 Medicare's AI Experiment | EFFector 38.20† 🔥When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company's algorithm. But in January, the federal government launched a program that uses AI to ...
- What the ‘AI Torture Chamber’ Debate Got Wrong About the Research† 🔥Interpretability experiments are often misrepresented to make broader arguments about the rights or experiences of models, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
- The Scandal Is Bigger Than Jensen Huang† 🔥No business executive should have so much political power that they can’t be held to account.
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.
- NEPA Litigation: What the Record Shows† 🔥🔥Congress is again considering how federal courts should review environmental decisions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The bill at the cente ...
- Callais And Systemic Governance In its most recent October Term, the Supreme Court delivered a devastating blow to American democracy in eviscerating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Loui ...
- The End of Software Copyright† The vast majority of coders and software companies today use AI-generated code or employ programmers who do; surveys suggest that nearly 90% of coders ar ...
- The Person Familiar with the Existing Work (PFEW) in Pelham II: A Workable Copyright Standard?† The Court of Justice’s ruling in Pelham II (Case C-590/23) requires national courts to assess whether a new creation co ...
- Hikma v. Amarin: How the Patent/Copyright Palette Fostered Generic Competition† Defendants in intellectual-property (IP) cases can be liable for not only direct infringement but also assisting others in infringement. For the past sev ...
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.
- Emergent Representations of Program Semantics in Language Models Trained on Programs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We present evidence that language models (LMs) of code can learn to represent the formal semantics of programs, despite being trained only to perform next-token prediction. Specifically, we train a Tr...
- Reward-Driven Collider Physics Challenges for Self-Improving Agentic AI via Reinforcement Learning† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Reward-Driven Collider Physics Challenges for Self-Improving Agentic AI via Reinforcement Learning ...
- Poison-then-Hide: Finetuning-Activated Backdoor Attack on Pretrained Vision Encoders 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Poison-then-Hide: Finetuning-Activated Backdoor Attack on Pretrained Vision Encoders ...
- What does it mean to understand language?† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for What does it mean to understand language?
- Who Pays for the Knowledge Models Copy? Model Collapse as Rogers' Paradox 🔥🔥Generative models trained on the output of earlier models lose knowledge across generations, rare knowledge first. The remedies that work all bring in information from outside the loop, and the theory...
- Where LLM Agents Get Stuck Debugging Databases: Access More Than Reasoning† 🔥🔥Large language model (LLM) coding agents are increasingly asked not only to write code but to debug running systems from live runtime data. We report a field observation of one such agent (Claude Code) as it diagnosed eight database incidents in a production message-dispatch engine. In every incident whose root cause depended on runtime concurrency, the agent announced a cause, shipped a fix, and later walked it back, and each wrong guess cost a deploy-and-observe cycle. Mapping each incident to what the agent lacked, we find that access to production state was the most pervasive bottleneck. The missing access included live lock views, untruncated deadlock reports, read-only execution, and an explicit environment context. An access gap was present in all five concurrency-dependent incidents: alone in one, and in four combined with a reasoning error such as anchoring on an early cause, incomplete exploration of the configuration, or a misreading of the code's transaction semantics. The three incidents that did not depend on concurrency needed nothing beyond what the agent already had. Within the incidents, the agent's wrong hypotheses were consistent with the evidence it could see; they were not fabrications. We argue that the next step for production-debugging agents is a forensics layer that gives the agent the access it lacks inside existing security controls. Such a layer would combine a safe interrogation API, a lock-and-deadlock flight recorder, and a production replay harness.
- Privacy Preference Controls for Agentic Systems† 🔥ArXiv link for Privacy Preference Controls for Agentic Systems ...
- On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI: Evidence from Language Model Pre-Training† 🔥ArXiv link for On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI: Evidence from Language Model Pre-Training ...
- Cited but Unused: Parametric Provenance in Retrieval-Augmented Generation 🔥Retrieval-augmented generation systems attach citations to attribute claims to their sources. These citations frequently misstate provenance, and standard verification cannot detect this. We measure p...
- Large Language Model Explainability for Planning Lunar Rover Trajectories under Uncertainty† 🔥ArXiv link for Large Language Model Explainability for Planning Lunar Rover Trajectories under Uncertainty ...
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)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social)
- Kevin (@reginageorgebush.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- °。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ (@sababausa.bsky.social)
- the empty city (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lou Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Maybell Romero (@maybell.bsky.social) (promoted)
- reuters.com (@reuters.com) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Danny Miller (@danielmilleresq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.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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