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.
- Leon Black Sues House Committee Over Epstein Probe 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The billionaire won’t appear before the House panel and claims it cannot compel him to turn over nondisclosure agreements with women.
- Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
- Plans Announced to Break Ground on Trump’s Triumphal Arch Before Final Approval (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, announced plans to start work on the site of the 250-foot-tall triumphal arch. Final approval of the project is still pending.
- Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay 🔥🔥Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.
- Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
- Farage senior aide filmed suggesting way to avoid donations law 🔥A film broadcast by Channel 4 shows senior Reform UK figures discussing donations with an undercover reporter.
- EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon temporarily rescinding guidance on testosterone screening for US troops, official says 🔥On Wednesday, the Pentagon posted the "Clinical Guidance for Health and Human Performance Optimization" on its website.
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.
- Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations 🔥🔥🔥Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
- Democrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow Up 🔥🔥Democrats are finally grasping that their voters do not like the Supreme Court and do not want to be represented by politicians who defend it.
- September 3, 2026 Election analyst Charlie Cook told Republicans today to “brace themselves” for the midterms.
- Voter Fraud and Voter Suppression If you’ve read my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, you’re familiar with the basic idea.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 454. 9/3/26 … Fox has abruptly parted ways with longtime host and Trump cultist Maria Bartiromo. They gave no explanation in their brief announcement. She worked for Fox for over a decade anchoring their morning ...
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 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion† 🔥The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.
- 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.
- Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit† 🔥The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
- Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (Gift Article)† 🔥The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.
- 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...
- 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 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 ...
- 9/11 and the Law of Domestic Military Deployments† 🔥The legal architecture of the Defense Department’s domestic operations significantly changed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. This was perhaps most ...
- AI-Powered Lawyering: AI Reasoning Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and the Future of Legal Practice† Generative AI is set to transform the legal profession, though its most promising uses and ultimate effects are still unclear. While AI models like GPT-4 improv ...
- Elections Aren't Failing, Democracy Is† American democracy is in trouble, but not because of how our elections are conducted. To the contrary, election administration is one of the strongest links ...
- Global Online Piracy Study† This report deals with the acquisition and consumption of music, films, series, books and games through the various legal and illegal channels that exist nowada ...
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.
- Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach† 🔥🔥🔥🔥We study a novel language model architecture that is capable of scaling test-time computation by implicitly reasoning in latent space. Our model works by iterating a recurrent block, thereby unrolling...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
- Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andrea Joy Campbell (@ajcampbellma.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Daphne Keller (@daphnek.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy.net) (relegated)
- Paolo Sandro (@paolosandro.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) (relegated)
- Chance the Lawyer (@chancethelawyer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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