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.
- ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators ...
- Dr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61 🔥🔥She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
- Ukraine's Zelenskiy says up to 50,000 North Korean troops to be deployed in Russia 🔥🔥Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said up to 50,000 North Korean soldiers will be deployed in Russia to fight for Pyongyang's ally, while calling on South Korea to provide support for its a...
- Trump Thought Opening the Strait of Hormuz Was Imminent. Iran Had Other Plans. 🔥Tehran’s new demands for major concessions come days after the White House had signaled a deal to clear commercial passage was within reach.
- Israel Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Plan to Disarm Hamas (Gift Article) 🔥President Trump’s Board of Peace announced an agreement last month that aimed at Hamas giving up its weapons alongside an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
- Fact-Checking 3 Competitive Senate Races in Maine, Michigan and Ohio 🔥Republican attacks have focused on terrorism and illegal immigration, while Democrats have sought to capitalize on the unpopularity of President Trump’s cuts to Medicaid.
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.
- Sunday Update: More Important Epstein Files Undermine Trump Claims, Trump Floats Ending War Without Nuclear Deal, and More 🔥🔥🔥Good evening everyone.
- The Black Venus 🔥Josephine Baker: "The Nazis were racists. They were bigots. I despised that sort of thing and was determined that they must be defeated."
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 436. 🔥… Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for senate in MI, did a series of interviews with national media this weekend.
- August 9, 2026 🔥On August 9, 1974, Richard M.
- One year in, Trump's troop deployment in D.C. is ongoing, unending, pointless — and very bad 🔥The "America 250" flags are a particularly empty emblem on the uniforms of troops deployed on the streets of the nation's capital. And for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Major Good News Update! We are Growing Fast and have big news! 🔥Good morning, everyone.
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.
- Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”† 🔥🔥🔥Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...
- Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses† 🔥🔥The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
- Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools 🔥🔥The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...
- Brazil's Electoral Court Wants Platform Compliance Plans. Can It Enforce Them? 🔥Platforms will have to provide comprehensive and structured information on various phenomena related to elections, writes Laís Martins.
- Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals? Autonomous AI hacking is here. Governments are not ready ...
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.
- What is the Business of the Warren Court? 🔥Today's Supreme Court is conservative whereas the Warren Court was liberal. Yet the substantive principles underlying these two Courts are more compatible than ...
- Incomplete Innovation and the Premature Disruption of Legal Services In this Article, I argue that disruption of legal services will likely happen before the creative, bespoke services that are characteristic of today’s establish ...
- The Dialectic of Strategy: Political and Legal Struggles for Chagossian Decolonization This chapter examines the shift from political negotiation to legal mobilisation in the Chagossian struggle for decolonisation. Rather than treating th ...
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.
- The Environmental Impacts of Machine Learning Training Keep Rising Evidencing Rebound Effect† 🔥🔥🔥Recent Machine Learning (ML) approaches have shown increased performance on benchmarks but at the cost of escalating computational demands. Hardware, algorithmic and carbon optimizations have been pro...
- People construct simplified mental representations to plan 🔥🔥One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because plans...
- An Early Warning of Emerging Biosecurity Risks in Frontier LLMs† 🔥🔥Frontier large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into scientific workflows, yet their growing biological capabilities may outpace current safeguards. To assess the biological risks of...
- The crisis of AI-generated mathematics† 🔥In this essay, I present the case for total opposition to the use of artificial intelligence in mathematics. I offer proposals for how individuals, departments, journals, and institutions can act in c...
- Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning† 🔥ArXiv link for Search2Skill: Skill Distillation Beyond Knowledge Boundaries Via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning ...
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)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@masnick.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (promoted)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (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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