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.
- World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification ...
- MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption 🔥🔥🔥Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
- Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech 🔥🔥🔥The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
- How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes 🔥🔥Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
- Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart (Gift Article) 🔥🔥A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
- Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article) 🔥🔥Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
- The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms 🔥President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
- Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes 🔥The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.
- Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS 🔥The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.
- Andy Burnham admits to ‘concern’ if Manchester City lose their owners after guilty verdicts 🔥The primer minister said: ‘City have been a huge partner in building modern Manchester,’ while the Independent Football Regulator said it is monitoring the case ...
- Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises 🔥Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions ...
- South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills 🔥South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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.
- After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution 🔥🔥🔥SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
- Flooding the Zone† 🔥Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...
- Major Exclusive: Trump DOJ Buries Secret Epstein Interview, Trump Hit With Large Court Losses, Scrambles to Muzzle His Own AI Good evening.
- September 30, 2026 A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
- NEWS: Paxton Caught on Hot Mic Trashing Trump’s Convention, Trump Scrambles to Silence AI That Fact-Checks Him, Jack Smith Fallout Grows Good 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.
- 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."
- Even Trump's AI won't back his election lies 🔥🔥
- Eric Schmitts the Bed 🔥🔥Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.
- OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models† 🔥Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
- OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack† 🔥A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
- What Do Dictators and Rogue AI Have in Common? Trump's Overwhelming Love† 🔥Ambassador Susan Rice warns that unregulated AI will kill civilians and arm hostile parties.
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.
- Protectors of Predators or Prey: Bystanders and Upstanders Amid Sexual Crimes† In the wake of widespread revelations about sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, and others, the United States is reckoning with the past and present ...
- Known to Police: the Revival of Juvenile Curfews† A few years ago, in response to an uptick in crime rates, many cities revived a familiar tool—juvenile curfews. Yet unlike prior iterations, modern juvenile ...
- “The People Have a Right”: Vermont’s Village Greens, the Declaration of Rights, and Greater State Constitutional Protection for Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly† This Article argues, for the consideration of the Vermont Supreme Court, that Articles 13 and 20 of the Vermont Constitution, declaring the people’s rights of f ...
- Three Accusations against Israel: Apartheid, Settler Colonialism, and Genocide under Legal and Historical Scrutiny† This article examines three recurrent classifications of Israel and its conduct: apartheid, settler colonialism, and genocide. It treats apartheid and genocide ...
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.
- JEV vs. LLMs as Rubric Judges: Cheaper, Faster, and Wrong in the Same Places† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We ask whether Jev, a typed classifier that returns probabilities over permitted answers without generating text, can replace an LLM rubric judge. We compare it with three flash-tier LLM judges on nin...
- Shutdown Sabotage Propensities in Multi-Agent Systems† 🔥🔥🔥The final safeguard against rogue AI behavior is the human ability to shut systems down. It has been theorized that when an AI is instructed to perform a task, self-preservation can emerge as an instr...
- Game-Theoretic Lens on LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems† 🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning, planning, and communication abilities, enabling them to operate as autonomous agents in open environments. While single-agent systems r...
- Pretrain Once, Route Anywhere: Towards a Foundation Model for LLM Routing 🔥Large language model (LLM) routing aims to assign each query to the most suitable model from a heterogeneous candidate pool, improving the quality--efficiency trade-off of LLM inference. Existing routers are typically learned through local fitting: a router is optimized for a particular query workl…
- Cheap, open agents make LLM pollution harder to mitigate† 🔥Large Language Model (LLM) pollution occurs when synthetic responses contaminate data intended to capture human behavior. High deployment costs have so far limited the risk posed by autonomous survey agents. However, open-weight models paired with open-source agentic frameworks may have removed thi…
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)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- In Medias Malone (@professormusgrave.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.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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