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.
- Putin Meets Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow to Discuss Ukraine War 🔥🔥🔥🔥President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a pause in strikes on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, ahead of the meeting with President Trump’s envoys: his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the businessman Steve Witkoff.
- Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads 🔥🔥🔥🔥Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
- Patagonia Sues Trump Over Utah National Monument 🔥🔥🔥The outdoor apparel maker joined environmental and Native American groups in challenging President Trump’s reduction of Bears Ears National Monument.
- Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent 🔥🔥Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions ...
- Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks 🔥The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
- Missouri Voters Appear to Recall City Councilman Over Data Center Support 🔥Initial results showed that residents of Independence, Mo., voted overwhelmingly to recall an official who backed billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data center.
- Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young 🔥Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics ...
- In Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members† 🔥About 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions.
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.
- Five Questions with Nevada Secretary of State Francisco “Cisco” Aguilar 🔥🔥🔥On July 17, 2026, DHS sent a letter to Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, demanding the state’s voter rolls.
- NEWS: Trump Suffers Rough Night as Court Losses Pile Up, Hegseth Begins Mass Polygraphs to Hunt for Leakers, ICE Whistleblower 🔥It was a rough night in court for the Trump administration.
- Important Saturday Night Update 🔥Big update this Saturday, and it does not have much about Donald Trump.
- September 5, 2026 Events of Friday, September 4, showed the Trump administration in a nutshell.
- Three Borrowers Walk Into The Bond Market The AI build-out, the U.S. government, and our unpredictable financial future.
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.
- Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit† A class action lawsuit against Meta was amended yesterday to include a new class of "bystanders," who claim Meta violated their privacy.
- Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images† Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’ A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her. “Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California. Continue reading...
- Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
- DOJ says barring AI training on copyrighted material could 'severely hamper' tech progress Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.
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.
- "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse 🔥🔥If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
- 'The Stepford Justices': The Need for Experiential Diversity on the Roberts Court† 🔥For the first time in history every Supreme Court justice has come directly from the same job: judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. For the first time in history ...
- A FORTIORI: THE IMPLIED CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITION ON PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS OF CO-CONSPIRATORS A Structural, Historical, and Comparative Constitutional Analysis† The Pardon Clause empowers the President to "Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment." 1 A ...
- Calling a State a State: Somaliland and International Recognition† Since its declaration of independence in 1991, Somaliland has transitioned from a post-conflict society to a stable and relatively democratic state. Despite its ...
- Amicus Brief for Supreme Court, Viramontes et al v Cook County, on Assault Weapon Bans in Cook County and Connecticut There is no credible evidence that “assault-weapon” bans meaningfully reduce gun homicide or crime overall. Because so few states have enacted such bans, and al ...
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.
- Do Large Language Models Capture the Diversity in their Training Data?† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models are trained to model conditional distributions over text, yet it remains inadequately understood whether they capture the full diversity of plausible outputs present in their tra...
- KEEPING AI IN ITS ZONE† 🔥🔥🔥🔥With zoning-reform fever sweeping local governments, state legislatures, and even Congress, there is an urgent push to understand exactly how zoning works. Unfo ...
- Optical Reservoir Computing with Structural Nonlinearity for Forecasting Chaotic Time Series† 🔥🔥Optical computing offers a promising route to high-speed, energy-efficient information processing. However, implementing nonlinear operations typically requires strong light-matter interactions. Here,...
- The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks† 🔥🔥Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of symb...
- HarnessDev: Can LLMs Create and Evolve Their Own Agent Harness?† 🔥🔥As agents move from research prototypes to deployed tools, their capability increasingly depends on model-external execution infrastructure, commonly termed the agent harness. Changing this harness wh...
- ShotcreteDepth: A Bi-modal Dataset for Robust Robotic Depth Perception in Shotcrete Construction Environments† 🔥🔥We introduce ShotcreteDepth, a bi-modal dataset from the construction domain that captures both an active shotcreting process and general construction environments. The dataset comprises stereo RGB im...
- Identifying AI Web Scrapers Using Canary Tokens 🔥🔥From pre-training to query-time augmentation, web-scraped data helps to improve the quality and contextual relevancy of content generated by large language models (LLMs). However, large-scale web scra...
- Ready to Speak: Aligning LLMs for TTS-Friendly Text Generation† 🔥Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily optimized for written text, often producing outputs that are grammatically correct and helpful yet poorly suited for spoken delivery via Text-to-Spee...
- Predicting Multilingual Classification and Translation Performance of LLMs with Cross-Lingual Alignment -- Is English Enough?† 🔥Multilingual large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform better on non-English classification tasks when the representations of the given language are more aligned to English within the mo...
- Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus 🔥Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and show that the interplay between social transmission, recovery, and collective reinforcement can generate tipping points and technological lock-in. A central consequence is the possibility of runaway dynamics: once a critical threshold is crossed, small increases in adoption can trigger rapid population-level shifts toward persistent dependence, with abrupt losses in cognitive competence. The same framework, however, identifies conditions for cognitive immunization, based on reducing transmission and facilitating reversibility. Our results highlight how LLM adoption may involve nonlinear collective transitions with important consequences for cognitive autonomy.
- FiMI Banking: A Sovereign Model for Indian Retail Banking† 🔥Banks need conversational systems that can answer product questions, assist customers with account-related requests, and operate safely within strict operational and regulatory constraints. General-purpose language models do not reliably meet these requirements. They fall short when a task requires…
- Our Members - arXiv info | arXiv e-print repository† 🔥
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)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.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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