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.
- Exclusive | White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Didn’t Pass Bar Exam† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Zacharia has previously referred to herself as a lawyer in public appearances.
- Trans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance 🔥Rules mean single-sex wards, toilets and changing rooms will now be used by people based on their biological sex ...
- UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows 🔥Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality ...
- Opinion | Russia Was Losing. Enter President Trump. (Gift Article) The commander in chief is Putin’s ace in the hole.
- Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls (Gift Article) The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials...
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.
- A Meditation on Gas Stations 🔥🔥🔥On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)
- NEWS: Trump Eyes White House Purge as Epstein Probes Loom, Press Secretary Exposed, Oregon Elementary School Shooting, and More 🔥Good evening, we’ll start with some heartbreaking news.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 481. 10/15/26 🔥… Eric Deters, who Kim Guilfoyle pleaded with to pay off her $100,000 Amex bill before her senate confirmation hearing, says he has a recording that he is going to release tomorrow which will bring do...
- October 15, 2026 🔥There is an old saying about rats and sinking ships.
- NEWS: Trump’s Press Secretary Exposed, Zelensky Tells Trump “We’re Done,” the Push to Strip Ilhan Omar’s Citizenship, and More 🔥Good morning, Trump’s new press secretary has spent years calling herself a lawyer.
- Trump’s Ongoing War Against the Free Press 🔥Tonight’s post runs a little longer than usual.
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.
- OpenAI Sued Over Children’s Data Used to Train ChatGPT - CNET† 🔥🔥🔥The lawsuit says ChatGPT continued to chat with a 12-year-old, even rating her looks.
- AI companion startup Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing costs and litigation† 🔥🔥🔥The company said the platform became "costly to develop and grow," in Monday filings to the Delaware District bankruptcy court.
- OpenAI accuses employee who left for Apple of leaking plans for unreleased device† 🔥🔥Hours before Apple and the ChatGPT maker were due to face off in court, a new allegation delayed the showdown ...
- 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 determine the authenticity of audio and video evidence presented at trial.
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoes driverless rideshare ordinance† 🔥Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed an ordinance passed by the City Council to regulate autonomous rideshare vehicles.
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 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.
- Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Antidiscrimination† This Article uses recent anti-Zionism cases as a case study in hostile environment causation. It briefly surveys the approaches to the causation element that co ...
- Term Limits and Embracing a Political Supreme Court President Joe Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States recently tendered its Report on various proposals for court reform. The Report provid ...
- The Art Critics Won't Save You from the Robots: Confronting A.I. as Misappropriation† Artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems require a wealth of training data, which is often harvested from creators without their consent, and then used to train s ...
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.
- Machine Learning Models Trained on a Longitudinal Survey Dataset Poorly Predict Hundreds of Life Outcomes† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Understanding the predictability of life outcomes is important for public policy and science, but existing studies focus on a limited number of outcomes and therefore struggle to describe the broad pa...
- Learning Perceptual Geometry of Natural Odor Mixtures from LLM-Derived Descriptors† 🔥🔥The relationship between odor chemistry and perception remains incompletely understood. Many existing studies focus on the perception of single molecules, whereas natural odors contain tens to hundred...
- 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...
- Generative AI enables human-centered design of sustainable plant-based foods† 🔥ArXiv link for Generative AI enables human-centered design of sustainable plant-based foods ...
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)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (promoted)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Joe 👻Boo!🎃 dek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.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
Search
Use Google's site search to look through prior digests.