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.
- Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans 🔥🔥🔥🔥Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
- Blanche’s Slush Fund By Any Other Name Is Still Corrupt 🔥🔥🔥A sleight of hand occurred at the Department of Justice as drama was unfolding in the Senate over Todd Blanche’s confirmation for attorney general.
- US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference 🔥🔥A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
- Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing Says (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The request suggests the intense personal involvement of President Trump in investigating one of his longtime critics, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
- Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination 🔥🔥President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
- Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation 🔥The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
- Burnham urged to increase tax on banks as Barclays’ profits soar 🔥TUC says lender ‘can easily afford to pay more tax’ as it increases half-year bonus pool by nearly 30%
- Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go through 🔥Uefa's 55 member associations vote to boycott the World Cup if Fifa proceeds with its plan to sell stakes in its competitions.
- Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant 🔥Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia are also grappling with the effects of a series of prolonged heatwaves and low rainfall.
- Thames Water boss says leakage targets 'not realistic' 🔥Chris Weston said Thames wanted "to do better" but some of its targets were not achievable.
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.
- Watching the show trials 🔥🔥🔥Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution ...
- Three Former Prosecutors Walk Into A Bar... 🔥So, we didn’t exactly walk into a bar, but anytime Preet Bharara, Elie Honig and I get a chance to talk shop, it’s a good conversation.
- NEWS: Justice Department Hands Over Key, Unredacted Epstein Files, Europe Boycotts World Cup, Blanche in More Trouble, Melania/Epstein 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Confronting the Epidemic of Gun Violence 🔥A necessary conversation with activist Shannon Watts for the latest episode of 'Six Questions with Steven Beschloss'
- Substack Live with Katie Phang, 10am Thursday New Developments in the Jim Comey prosecution.
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 ...
- 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 ...
- Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests 🔥Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue...
- 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.
- Anthropic Says Claude Hacked 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
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.
- Immigration is Not Invasion 🔥🔥 In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- Protecting Inferior Officers Against the backdrop of recent far-reaching executive actions to expand at-will removal from the highest-level officials to the lowest, the Supreme Court’s rece ...
- 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 ...
- Amici Curiae Brief of Intellectual Property Scholars in Support of Appellee in xAI v. Bonta, No. 26-1591 (9th Cir.) Amici curiae are scholars of intellectual property. Amici have no personal interest in the outcome of this litigation but share a professional interest in seein ...
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.
- 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...
- The Maxwell Conjecture is False 🔥🔥🔥🔥We exhibit a configuration of five point charges in Euclidean space whose electrostatic potential admits at least 24 critical points all of which are non-degenerate. Maxwell's conjecture that the fiel...
- 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.
- Amici Curiae Brief of Intellectual Property Scholars in Support of Appellee in xAI v. Bonta, No. 26-1591 (9th Cir.) 🔥Amici curiae are scholars of intellectual property. Amici have no personal interest in the outcome of this litigation but share a professional interest in seein ...
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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