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.
- UK and EU agree draft deal to scrap Brexit red tape over food exports† 🔥🔥🔥🔥The food deal, ahead of a UK-EU summit later this month, is the most significant part of the so-called Brexit reset agreed so far.
- Stocks Rise as Democrats Flip Control of Congress 🔥🔥🔥🔥Markets traded higher as investors foresaw gridlock in Washington, typically a bullish signal.
- Trump told voters, ‘Pretend I’m on the ballot.’ They did. 🔥🔥President Donald Trump spent two months urging Americans to pretend he was on the ballot. On Tuesday, they did just that.
- Why the UK settlement rule changes are unjust | Letters 🔥🔥Letters: Readers question the motives and fairness behind Shabana Mahmood’s new immigration proposals ...
- Rogue UK energy bosses and brokers face crackdown on mis-selling 🔥🔥Exclusive: Ofgem to be given powers to issue fines and rein in bonuses for executives who ‘reward themselves while customers suffer’
- ‘Knives out’ at Pentagon after unpopular Iran war dooms GOP in midterms 🔥🔥Though President Trump has continued to support Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Republicans’ electoral drubbing leaves him and other key military leaders vulnerable, officials say.
- Elon Musk Spends $474 Million on the 2026 Midterm Elections (Gift Article) 🔥Never before has a single ultrawealthy person who was not running for office spent this much during a single election cycle.
- Google says there’s no way to use Search without using artificial intelligence 🔥In announcement geared to schools, tech giant shows how entwined AI is with the world’s most popular website ...
- ‘An Earthquake’: A Democratic Rout Stuns Texas (Gift Article) 🔥In a seismic shift that was once unthinkable, victories by James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa upended decades of statewide dominance in what had been the nation’s most populous conservative state.
- Justice Alito Will Not Retire From Supreme Court Immediately, Despite Election Outcome 🔥The conservative justice has told friends he does not plan to step down before the end of the court’s term, even as Democrats are set to seize the Senate in January.
- UK interest rates: Bank of England expected to raise them for first time in over three years 🔥Most analysts are predicting an increase from 3.75% to 4%, the first increase in more than three years.
- A million people could gain health insurance in Texas after Democrats’ shocking win 🔥Texas has waited more than a decade for Medicaid expansion. Its time might finally be here.
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.
- Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Winning An Election 🔥🔥🔥🔥We did it.
- NEWS: Democrats Launch Largest Investigation Effort in History, Blue Tsunami Grows, World Breathes a Sigh of Relief, Infighting Grows 🔥🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- BREAKING: Trump Holed Up in White House, Hegseth to Face ‘Reckoning,’ Democrats Tell Trump Family to ‘Lawyer Up,’ Epstein Hearings 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Liveblog: Mississippi's 2026 U.S. Senate Election Results 🔥Mississippi election workers are counting U.S. Senate in the race between U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Scott Colom.
- November 4, 2026 And so, one era passes and another begins.
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.
- Apple Begins Testing Its Controversial Always-Listening AI Feature† 🔥🔥🔥Here's your warning!
- Elon Musk's AI company is reportedly targeting 418 homes near its Mississippi data center, with buyout offers tied to waiving noise-lawsuit claims; county records show five purchases since October 9† 🔥🔥homeowners must agree not to join a lawsuit against the company over noise from its nearby power plant. According to a report by The Guardian, real estate agents have been visiting residents in…
- NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms 🔥🔥Lawsuit calls Brave "supplier, dealer, and distributor" of stolen news content.
- The Wikimedia Foundation files to protect open knowledge in New York Times v OpenAI case – Wikimedia Foundation† 🔥🔥The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the OpenAI copyright case, urging the court to protect Wikipedia and the open knowledge ecosystem.
- People Are Using AI for Divorce Advice and It’s Driving Their Lawyers Crazy 🔥Feed one side of a family fight into a chatbot and you might get the legal answer you want to see, but it won’t necessarily fly with the judge ...
- ‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search† 🔥Exclusive: Nonexistent precedent cited in alleged child rape case adds to dozens of AI-related errors plaguing court proceedings A senior crown prosecutor acting in a high court case cited an imaginary legal precedent in an error that has sparked fresh concerns about AI hallucinations infecting the justice system. Ravinder Dhillon, representing the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), referenced an entirely made-up case during a dispute over whether a child should be prosecuted for the rape of his younger sister, court documents have revealed. Continue reading...
- It’s time to block reckless AI IPOs and tax billionaires | Naomi Klein and Ilana Glazer† 🔥We cannot let the billionaire class take unprecedented risks with our future ...
- The New York Times and other publications sue Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls† 🔥More publisher lawsuits over AI.
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.
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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.
- What's Old Is New: Improved Learning from Small-Group Tutorials† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The ubiquity of Large Language Models poses a challenge to student learning in homework-based college courses, where access to easy homework answers devalues the intended productive struggle. To addre...
- Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs† 🔥Whether models trained on different modalities converge to the same representation of the world is central to AI. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) conjectures that they do as they scale, b...
- Predicting Personality Traits from Short Unstructured Conversations with AI† 🔥Given the complexity of personality, we might assume that significant behaviour is required to express our traits. Here we use large language models (LLMs) to test the extent to which personality is v...
- Principled Human-AI Collaboration in Agentic Workflows ArXiv link for Principled Human-AI Collaboration in Agentic Workflows ...
- Social signals dominate clinician trust in medical AI† Accuracy and outcome data are often treated as the main determinants of trust in automation. We test this assumption against an account in which clinicians evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) using ...
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)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Free Law Project ⚖ (@free.law) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marc Veldhoen (@marcveld.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.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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