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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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.
- Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to Natalie Harp, two other close aides 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Financial disclosures show the sums were equivalent to nearly one-third of each of their salaries. Experts say the gifts are without precedent and may violate the law.
- Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. 🔥🔥🔥With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
- Ballot seizures seemed impossible. But judges and officials are prepping for them now 🔥The idea of law enforcement taking possession of ballots in the middle of an active election used to be considered impossible. Now, it's a scenario voting officials — and judges — are training for.
- Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps 🔥A Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
- Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been under way into other donations.
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.
- NEWS: Trump Blocks International Epstein Investigations, Musk's Vote Website Is Secretly Stealing Your Data, Trump's Family Calls Him a Liar 🔥🔥Good evening.
- Insanity in Missouri 🔥It’s utter insanity in Missouri, or as NBC’s Lawrence Hurley put it on Twitter this morning, the “Show Cause State.”
- Major Update: AI Employees Warn It Could 'Kill Us All' by 2030, Trump Rejects Regulation, Harp's $45K Cash Payday, MAGA Turns on SCOTUS 🔥Hey everyone, a researcher who spent his career building the most advanced AI models at both Anthropic and OpenAI quit this week and told the world, in plain terms, that the people building this techn...
- North Americans have depressing relationships 🔥Your "mature" relationship is not as mature as you think it is ...
- September 9, 2026 🔥Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.
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.
- 'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
- San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads 🔥🔥🔥The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
- Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
- Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
- Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic† A federal judge has sided with Anthropic on its claims that the Department of Defense illegally retaliated against Anthropic’s protected speech by labeling the AI company a “supply chain risk.”
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 Death and Rebirth of Vote Dilution† 🔥🔥For more than half a century, federal law recognized the concept of racial vote dilution. Members of a racial group experience this condition when voting is rac ...
- Parody of What?† 🔥 Barbie. Barney. The Elf on the shelf. Gone with the Wind. Grease. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Walt Disney. Don Henley. WWF wrestlers. Viral music vid ...
- Prompting Science Report 4: Playing Pretend: Expert Personas Don't Improve Factual Accuracy This is the fourth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working w ...
- The Counterfeit Sham† There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
- Discrimination as Bad Faith Courts and commentators often treat antidiscrimination principles as alien to contract law and expressed exclusively by civil rights statutes. This Art ...
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.
- AI Corporate Governance and Ben & Jerry's Risk 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥This paper critically analyzes the governance arrangements of OpenAI and Anthropic. These firms have an unusual built-in conflict: each raises funds from profit ...
- 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 ...
- The Steep Cost of Capture 🔥🔥🔥In considering how to tackle this onslaught of industrial AI, we must first recognize that the “advances” in AI celebrated over the past decade were not due to ...
- Course design in the age of AI† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Course design in the age of AI ...
- How Developers Discuss Generative AI: A Longitudinal Study of the Visual Studio Code Community 🔥Generative AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and coding agents have rapidly become part of everyday software development, yet little is known about how mainstream open source communities discuss them in practice. This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of generative-AI-related discussions in the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) GitHub repository, using 43,806 candidate issues created between January 2021 and June 2026. To improve corpus quality, we combined keyword retrieval with semantic relevance filtering, yielding a filtered corpus of 25,227 AI-related issues. We applied BERTopic to the retrieved corpus to identify discussion topics, using the filtered corpus for theme validation and a robustness re-clustering, and analyzed their evolution over time using monthly prevalence and Mann-Kendall trend tests. The results show that developer discussions are dominated by practical concerns regarding the operation of AI-assisted development environments, including agent management, configuration, reliability, authentication, and billing, whereas risks frequently emphasized in survey-based studies, such as hallucination and licensing, rarely surface in this venue. This suggests that discussions of generative AI in the VS Code issue tracker primarily focus on operational aspects of AI-assisted software development. Furthermore, discussions evolved from AI-assisted code completion toward conversational and agent-based development, reflecting the increasing integration of generative AI into software development workflows. These findings suggest that GitHub Issues provide a practical, workflow-oriented perspective on generative AI that complements survey-based studies of developer perceptions.
- Compile by Training: Turning Natural-Language Specifications into Local Neural Functions 🔥Many recurring text functions are easy to describe but difficult to implement with rules, while calling a large remote model for every input introduces repeated cost, latency, and dependency on a prov...
- Representation of syntax in LLMs through the lens of linear distance and similarity-aware entropy† 🔥Structural probes were introduced by Hewitt and Manning to reconstruct syntactic trees from a neural language model's latent representations. They are evaluated by calculating the proportion of syntac...
- Citing Less Critically: LLMs Reshape the Rhetoric and Reach of Scientific Citation 🔥
- The Profit Alignment Problem: How Profit Mandates Induce Alignment Failures in LLMs 🔥ArXiv link for The Profit Alignment Problem: How Profit Mandates Induce Alignment Failures in LLMs ...
- Building Trustworthy Graph-Agentic RAG for Social Good: Architectures, Failure Propagation, and Assurance by Construction 🔥Graph-agentic retrieval-augmented generation combines structured evidence with adaptive controllers that can plan retrieval, traverse relations, verify intermediate claims, delegate subtasks, and use ...
- Bridging the Semantic-Utility Gap in Multimodal RAG via Generator-in-the-Loop Alignment 🔥Vision-language models (VLMs) augmented with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) benefit from access to external evidence. However, standard retrievers and rerankers optimize for semantic similarity rather than answer utility, creating a preference gap: documents that appear relevant may not help …
- A Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness: The Necessity of Continual Learning for Consciousness 🔥Scientific theories of consciousness should be falsifiable and non-trivial. Recent research has given us formal tools to analyze these requirements of falsifiability and non-triviality for theories of...
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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