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.
- Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
- US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home 🔥🔥🔥🔥US authorities conducted a predawn Monday raid on the Washington-area home of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar as part of an ongoing investigation, the Justice Department said.
- Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race 🔥🔥Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms ...
- Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans 🔥🔥The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
- Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article) 🔥The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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 ...
- NEWS: Trump’s DHS Raids Congresswoman’s Home in Major Escalation, Trump’s Crowds Shrink as the GOP Turns on Itself, Judge Blocks Trump Ads 🔥Hey everyone, happy Monday.
- The Week Ahead 🔥October 11, 2026 ...
- October 12, 2026 🔥Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million into the midterms to try to make sure voters elect Republicans.
- The Public Doesn’t Want Hegseth’s Snuff Film, and Even Republicans Know It 🔥Like all fascist movements, MAGA is built on violence - but they can tell when they’ve gone too far.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 479. 10/12/26 🔥… US District Judge Ana Reyes was livid with DOJ attorneys at the emergency hearing she held during the federal holiday today over the Trump admin’s brazen defiance of her previous court order not to ...
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.
- When AI is subject to less regulation than your fridge, something is startlingly wrong | Richard Hermer 🔥🔥🔥Let’s be clear: the risk to humanity is unprecedented. Without an urgent public debate and robust use of international law, we will lose control of the future, says Labour life peer Richard Hermer ...
- Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight' 🔥🔥"Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
- I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine 🔥🔥My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.”
- The Fight for Serious AI Regulation Just Won a Big Victory in Massachusetts 🔥🔥After his primary win, Ed Markey says he’s ready to take on “the criminal enterprises” of Big Tech.
- 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."
- AI Governance Is Being Decided Now, and the Public Isn’t in the Room 🔥🔥Companies have an opportunity to make good on their stated commitment to democratic AI governance, Mackenzie Austin.
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.
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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.
- 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 ...
- Who Can Say No? Control, Accountability and the Pace of Frontier AI 🔥In September 2026, the leaders of the largest frontier AI laboratories said in public that the pace of capability improvement is too fast and that none of them can slow down alone, and agents under ev...
- Has LLM Screening Performance Stalled in Software Engineering Systematic Reviews? Screening in systematic reviews (SRs) is manual and time-consuming. Prior work has explored large language models (LLMs) for automating this step, but LLMs are evolving rapidly, so earlier performance...
- STAIR (STructure Aware Information Retriever): A novel dataset and LLM based retriever for document structure augmentation Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a key component for generating accurate and hallucination free answers using Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are improving at handling long context, but stil...
- AI's Reference Class Problem: Beyond Adversarialism When public and private authorities make predictions about people’s future behavior, they must begin by identifying “reference classes”. A reference class is co ...
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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