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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ The Finite Scroll, an open-source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- When a Social Media Mob Came for Cornell’s Jane Doe (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.
- Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports 🔥🔥🔥Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by restrictions during the country's election, newsp...
- Opinion | I’ve Worked in Congo for Decades. I’ve Never Seen an Ebola Crisis Like This. 🔥🔥🔥This outbreak was detected late, giving the virus a head start.
- Reform faces questions over candidate vetting after undercover filming 🔥🔥Reform UK says the party has "improved and prioritised its vetting procedures".
- Perspective | Yes, Mr. President, Tuesday was a blue wave 🔥Why pundits and the president got it wrong, and why it matters ...
- Reform candidate filmed saying asylum seekers should be put in ‘concentration camps’ 🔥Would-be MP recorded telling undercover reporter in ITV investigation that Muslims could not be British ...
- Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027 🔥Water company tells creditors it will not survive long enough to agree refinancing deal without more money ...
- Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests 🔥Warm homes plan would create 50,000 jobs, compared with about 1,100 for Rosebank oilfield, thinktank finds ...
- Revealed: French police used UK-funded 4x4 vehicles to charge student protesters 🔥French government launches investigation into why cars funded by UK to prevent asylum seekers crossing Channel were used in school protests ...
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.
- What Issue Concerns You Most? 🔥🔥A Saturday Prompt ...
- Five Questions with Gina Hinojosa, Democratic Candidate for Texas Governor 🔥🔥Earlier this month, Taegan Goddard wrote on Political Wire that “Heading into the final weeks before Election Day on Nov.
- The Bill Is Coming Due 🔥🔥Feckless sellouts are about to pay the price for ditching democracy when it mattered the most ...
- DOJ v. California 🔥Desperate to avoid an embarrassing loss in the midterms, Trump is still trying to find a way to use his false claims about “illegal immigrants” voting to interfere with mail-in voting, even after the ...
- NEWS: Putin Orders Military to Make Cities ‘Uninhabitable’ and Trump Assists, Mass No Kings Day Protests, GOP Scrambles 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- NEWS: Students Rise Up Against GOP Voter Suppression, Trump Branded a “Traitor” Over Putin Sanctions, Trump Threatens to Jail Election Officials 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Putting Jack Smith’s Report Back Under Wraps† 🔥An Eleventh Circuit ruling stuffs Trump’s Volume II skeletons back in the closet.
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.
- GOP Accepts $276M Bribe to Protect African Immigrant CSAM Purveyor - emptywheel 🔥🔥🔥At least 7 people have accused Elon Musk -- the African immigrant who donated a quarter of a billion dollars to keep Republicans in power -- of letting Grok disseminate child sexual abuse material of ...
- Our Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration’s Social Media 🔥🔥🔥No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on ...
- Podcast: Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo† 🔥🔥How Raven, previously known as Geospy, can now find which house a photo was taken in; why a judge ruled a Flock search unconstitutional; and the wild AI video in a court case.
- OpenAI, Meta caution US judiciary about risk of 'deepfake' evidence 🔥Tech experts at OpenAI and Meta Platforms warned a federal judicial panel on Thursday that AI-generated "deepfakes" are becoming so sophisticated that it will become increasingly challenging to determ...
- 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.
- The Hidden History of the Second Amendment† 🔥🔥Professor Bogus argues that there is strong reason to believe that, in significant part, James Madison drafted the Second Amendment to assure his constituents i ...
- The Rise, Fall, and Future of Internet Exceptionalism† The Supreme Court first examined the relationship between the Internet and the First Amendment in 1997 in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union.
- The "Nerd Circuit": Creating a New Court for Regulatory Challenges† In recent years, opponents of new Executive Branch initiatives have developed a standard playbook for tying up those initiatives in court:
- Can States Throw Away the Key? Critiquing Human Rights Law Approaches to Whole Life Sentences† In this article, we examine the jurisprudence on the compatibility of irreducible life sentences with human rights under three rights-protecting instruments: th ...
- The President's Duty to Commission Officers† The Constitution contains an anti-unitary executive provision in the Commission Clause, which says that the President "shall Commission all the Officers of ...
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.
- You Only Index Once: Cross-Layer Sparse Attention with Shared Routing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Long-context inference in modern LLMs is increasingly constrained by decoding efficiency, especially in reasoning-heavy settings where models generate long intermediate chains of thought. Existing spa...
- Fork-and-Flush: Escaping Idea Basins in Autoresearch Agents† 🔥🔥🔥Autoresearch agents tackle open-ended problems by repeatedly proposing candidate solutions, evaluating them, and using feedback to guide subsequent experiments. We show that independent runs of the sa...
- Expanding AI Literacy: The 5Cs of News Literacy in the Era of Generative AI† 🔥🔥This article adapts the 5Cs framework of news literacy—context, creation, content, circulation, and consumption—to media environments shaped by generative artificial intelligence. We argue that prevai...
- The Non-Binarity of Artificial Intelligence Global Competition: 2018-2025† 🔥Technological progress plays a crucial role in international relations. In particular, innovation has long been theorized as instrumental to power transitions. It is therefore unsurprising that the re...
- Fine-Tuning Language Models to Know What They Know† Evaluating true metacognition in Large Language Models (LLMs) is difficult due to biases and heuristics. This paper presents a framework to measure and enhance LLM metacognition while controlling for ...
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)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social)
- 🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- michael veale (@michae.lv) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (relegated)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe 👻Boo!🎃 dek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.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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