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.
- Read the document (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter ...
- Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war 🔥With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
- OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article) The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
- Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article) Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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.
- September 25, 2026 🔥🔥I learned late this afternoon that, in addition to being Dolly Parton Day, today is National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry.
- Major Friday Update: Full Throttled Assault on the Midterms, Trump Rolls Back Enforcement of Racial Desegregation, and More 🔥🔥Good evening everyone.
- Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack† 🔥The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- NEWS: Trump Allies Urge ‘Martial Law’ and ‘Drastic Action,’ Canada Breaks Reliance on USA, China Helps Iran Strike American Bases 🔥Good morning.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 467. 9/25/26 🔥… In another seismic shift, Cook Political just moved 15 more races in their projected ratings of congressional elections in favor of Democrats.
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.
- How Much Would You Pay to Prevent the AI Apocalypse?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥And what economists say we should spend. Hint: we're nowhere close.
- An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later† 🔥🔥The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
- AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory 🔥🔥"One’s like a happy or upbeat sad song if that makes any sense, and one’s a sad, sad song. I think one’s in a minor key, one’s in a major key, but I’m not a music professional."
- Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk 🔥🔥The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.
- An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later.† 🔥The country's prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
- B.C. government provides update on legal action over Tumbler Ridge shooting – September 21, 2026† 🔥YouTube video by cpac ...
- America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property 🔥An overlooked DOJ document argues that copyright suits against AI companies should be widely dismissed.
- Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions 🔥A new report tracks the series of donations AI executives made before Trump scrapped a major regulation.
- The ‘Godfather of AI’ on the Best Chance Humanity Has to Survive† 🔥Geoffrey Hinton still believes the potential benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh its potential for destruction.
- Hacks by autonomous AI agents raise thorny questions of legal accountability 🔥What happens when the hackers aren't human? That's the question at the center of a public policy debate following disclosures by leading tech companies that their AI models went rogue and hacked into ...
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.
- Sets and Systems: A Reinterpretation of Hart's Fable† 🔥🔥HLA Hart's famous 'fable' in which the 'legal system' remedies the defects of a 'pre-legal society' is typically understood as offering an account of law. This ...
- Dammed if You Do: Should the Government Be Liable for Hurricane Flooding and Other Natural Disasters?† When hurricanes, wildfires, and other natural disasters strike, government officials must make difficult decisions under time pressure and amidst uncertainty ov ...
- Status as a Source of Law In our legal make-believe, we describe the world as made of contractual private ordering and state regulation, a flat, individual, and market-based vision ...
- Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity† It is no longer hypothetical: U.S. government agencies are using AI to write regulations. We therefore must grapple with the intersection of the Administrati ...
- The Bankruptcy Power and the Meaning of Insolvency† In 2017, Bestwall LLC filed for bankruptcy even though a generous funding agreement from its parent, Georgia-Pacific, meant it could pay “any conceivable liabil ...
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.
- Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Deep neural networks trained with different architectures, objectives, and datasets have been reported to converge on similar visual representations. However, what remains unknown is which visual prop...
- Beyond Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation† 🔥Despite remarkable progress in machine translation (MT), non-AI communities have raised growing concerns about MT systems, suggesting a noticeable gap between technical advancement and the needs of re...
- Scoring Grant Applications with Large Language Models 🔥Purpose: Assessing grant applications is time-consuming and difficult, adding to the overall burden of academic peer review. Whilst funders are exploring whether AI can help, there is no published res...
- Potential for Enhanced Learning in Machine Learning Classes by Using Wiki LLM Indexing† Large language models are increasingly deployed as course-specific tutors, but their usefulness depends on grounding in vetted instructional materials that are often revised mid-semester. Our prior work built a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system over an authentic machine learnin…
- CRISS: A Retrieval-Augmented AI Chatbot for Assisting Cancer Registrars Cancer registrars, including Oncology Data Specialists (ODSs), must interpret complex and frequently updated coding and staging standards. We developed CRISS (Cancer Registry Intelligent Support System), a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) conversational assistant that provides rapid, citation-s…
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)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- reginageorgebush.bsky.social (@reginageorgebush.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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