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.
- Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
- How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.
- Roger Marshall, a Kansas Senator Facing Re-Election, Settles a Bakery Bill 6 Years Later 🔥🔥Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.
- Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report† 🔥🔥Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity ...
- Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds 🔥🔥Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.
- Bank governor urges John Healey to use budget to allay market fears amid bond turmoil 🔥Andrew Bailey tells chancellor ‘whatever the stance of fiscal policy, it must be credible and be seen as such by financial markets’
- UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute 🔥George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field ...
- They sat atop a ‘grandmother’ tree for months. Border agents knocked it down. 🔥Activists occupied a cottonwood tree in Arizona for more than two months in a standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors.
- In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him 🔥A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
- Some climate tipping points are being studied far more than others – new research 🔥Scientists aren’t focusing on the systems that may be closest to tipping.
- Drivers forced to use parking apps can pay up to 40% more 🔥Council car parks have switched away from ticket machines to cut costs, leading to extra fees for users ...
- ‘Not Pleasant’ but ‘Necessary’: Support at Trump Rally for Public Execution (Gift Article) 🔥A sample of people at the president’s midterm stump speech in Tennessee defended the Pentagon’s announcement that it would livestream the execution of a mass shooter.
- ‘If voters aren’t better off by the next election, we’re screwed’: Labour insiders voice fears over budget 🔥Some say party risks ‘looking twee’ by focusing on small fixes amid growing nervousness that budget lacks ambition ...
- Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age 🔥The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals.
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.
- War Through Weakness 🔥🔥🔥Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia ...
- Breaking: Federal judge order an immediate end to DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads 🔥Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump administration to “cancel or cause to be cancelled“ any remaining ad placements, including for Sunday evening.
- October 11, 2026 🔥This week I marked the end of another summer by spending as much time as I could on the water.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 478. 🔥… Widespread outrage and condemnation this weekend across both parties and around the world of Trump’s deal to lift sanctions against Russian energy and purchase large quantities to sell in the US mar...
- Regime Change and Corruption with Anne Applebaum 🔥A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video ...
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.
- AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this th ...
- Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal† 🔥🔥🔥"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after…
- Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.† 🔥A.I. giants must operate under our laws.
- Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History," Unsealed Court Documents Show† Newly unredacted court documents reveal damning statements by two AI executives in a landmark case about intellectual property.
- Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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.
- 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 ...
- The Lawyer of the Future: Ethics and Identity in the Age of AI† The dawn of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a fundamental challenge to the legal profession’s practical function and social identity. We arg ...
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.
- Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this pro...
- Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors† 🔥In subliminal learning (SL), a teacher model passes on a trait to a student model by distillation on data semantically unrelated to the trait. So far, SL has been demonstrated for only a limited range...
- Invariant Primes in Lubin-Tate Space and Hovey-Strickland at Every Height† Let $H_n$ be the one-dimensional Honda formal group of height $n$ over $\mathbf F_{p^n}$ and let \[ R_n=W(\mathbf F_{p^n})[[u_1,\ldots,u_{n-1}]],\qquad A_n=R_n/(p). \] We prove, for every height $n$ a...
- OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems† Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors. On Oct. 6, Open…
- Weekend reads: OpenAI’s preprint dump; Taylor & Francis to leave Informa; arXiv’s preprint cap† If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Editor-in-chief resigns amid probes of alleged citation manipulation,…
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)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (promoted)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.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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