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.
- Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
- EXCLUSIVE: Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role 🔥🔥🔥Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S. intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information or advanced drone technology, sa...
- Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests 🔥🔥🔥Matthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.
- Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe 🔥🔥Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation ...
- Most sewage spills in England may be illegal, new research suggests 🔥🔥The new analysis from a prominent water campaigner emerged after secret court documents were leaked.
- U.S. Surges Forces Toward Middle East, Giving Trump Options to Expand Iran War 🔥The influx of troops, medics and weaponry follows the deaths of three U.S. soldiers in an Iranian attack at a base in Jordan.
- Warsh Leaves Bond Traders in the Dark on Next Week’s Rate Move 🔥The Kevin Warsh Fed is already putting its stamp on financial markets: Just days before the central bank’s next meeting, traders are still split on whether it’s going to raise interest rates or not.
- Thames Water lenders offer 'golden share' to head off nationalisation 🔥The water supplier's lenders are trying to prevent the company from being taken over by the Burnham government ...
- Airport drop-off fees up by a third - here are the priciest 🔥The cost of parking closest to the terminal just for a few minutes has hit £10 at two of the UK's busiest airports.
- Trump must divulge financial details about businesses in $10bn BBC lawsuit 🔥US judge’s ruling could open up window into first family’s multiple ventures, in drawback of lawsuit on media ...
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.
- Breaking: Federal judge questions Hegseth's "High-T" military plan in light of Trump's anti-trans ban 🔥🔥🔥Judge Ana Reyes wants to know "the Department’s basis for treating trans men and other service members differently."
- July 22, 2026 🔥🔥“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.
- Ken Paxton Owns 15 Houses on a $153,000 Salary 🔥And that’s not even the worst part about his corruption ...
- Todd Blanche should not be confirmed as AG-he should be disbarred and prosecuted! I back this up below!
- Worst. Negotiators. Ever. The Trump administration continues to overplay its hand and agree to shitty deals.
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.
- “Privacy for Profits”: ACLU Warns Flock Building a Nationwide Surveillance Network† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-so...
- OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT’s ‘Dangerous’ Health Advice 🔥🔥🔥The case appears to be the first to argue that a chatbot’s advice harmed someone seeking guidance about a medical condition.
- Bessent Says US Will Scrutinize Chinese AI Models for IP Theft† 🔥🔥Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will carefully examine open source artificial intelligence models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, amid concerns that a new wave of low...
- AI and the Commercial Data Loophole† 🔥The Pentagon’s access to commercial LLMs give it a powerful surveillance tool that could be turned on Americans.
- I Got Trapped in the AI Ouroboros 🔥A foreign news outlet fabricated a quote from me. LLMs have already picked it up.
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.
- Does Holding Anti-Democratic Leaders Accountable Backfire? Evidence from Bolsonaro's Arrest in Brazil 🔥🔥Whether holding anti-democratic leaders accountable strengthens or weakens democracy remains one of the unresolved questions in contemporary debates about democ ...
- Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses We study worker noncompete clauses in a large field experiment with two finance firms. Across ~14,000 job offers to freelan ...
- Debating Social Rights with Conor Gearty† This short piece is forthcoming as part of a special issue of the European Human Rights Law Review in honour of Conor Gearty (1957-2025). It discusses th ...
- Generative Gap Filling† Contract law polices a line between interpretation, the recovery of meaning a text already holds, and gap filling, the supply of terms the text lacks. The bound ...
- Lowering Drug Prices by Reviving Skinny Labels and Patent Challenges and Addressing Patent Thickets† In this testimony to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee,
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.
- Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Recent work claims that large language models display emergent abilities, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities intriguin...
- LLMs can hide text in other text of the same length 🔥🔥🔥A meaningful text can be hidden inside another, completely different yet still coherent and plausible, text of the same length. For example, a tweet containing a harsh political critique could be embe...
- Octopus v3: Technical Report for On-device Sub-billion Multimodal AI Agent† 🔥ArXiv link for Octopus v3: Technical Report for On-device Sub-billion Multimodal AI Agent ...
- Making Agent-Mediated Contributions Governable: A Project-Level Governance Manifest for Open-Source AI Collaboration† 🔥Generative AI and coding agents are intensifying a central governance tension in open-source software (OSS): they scale contribution generation faster than maintainers can assess risk, evidence, and accountability. Existing responses improve agent-readability and traceability, but project rules mus…
- Octopus: On-device language model for function calling of software APIs ArXiv link for Octopus: On-device language model for function calling of software APIs ...
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)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Legal C (@legalclaret.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.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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