In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Monday March 2, 2026

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. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.

If you like these, you'll ❤️ this 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).

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.

  1. The U.S. Released the Epstein Files. The Arrests Are Overseas.  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
  2. Sgt La David Johnson: soldier at the center of dispute over Trump remarks  🔥🔥🔥
    The 25-year-old South Florida native who was killed in Niger has been put in the spotlight after Trump reportedly made insensitive comments to his widow ...
  3. Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150  🔥🔥🔥
    Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media ...
  4. Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum  🔥
    Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe ...
  5. U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban  🔥
    Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...
  6. Taiwan Arms Sale Approved by Congress Is Delayed as Trump Plans Visit to Beijing  🔥
  7. Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs  🔥
    Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat ...
  8. Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests  🔥
    Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence ...

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.

  1. February 28, 2026  🔥🔥
    Early this morning, the U.S.
  2. The Next Terrorist Attack  🔥🔥
    And What Comes After (Updated)
  3. This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 318.  🔥
    … US Central Command: “3 US service members have been killed in action and 5 are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions.
  4. The Week Ahead  🔥
    February 27, 2026 ...
  5. Important Sunday Update: Trump DOJ Shut Down Critical Epstein Investigation, Oil and Gas Prices Surge as Iran War Widens 
    Good evening, 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.

  1. Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk'  🔥🔥🔥
    Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
  2. AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget  🔥
    Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement ...
  3. Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon's supply chain risk designation in court  🔥
    Anthropic said on Friday it will challenge in court the Pentagon's decision to declare the AI firm a supply-chain risk, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump also directed every federal agency to stop work with the company.
  4. Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection 
    Claude has surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT as the top free app in the U.S. on Apple's rankings.
  5. Privacy Regulators in 61 Countries Back Enforcement Against AI Deepfakes 
    Regulators remind platforms that creation of non-consensual intimate imagery can constitute a criminal offence in many jurisdictions, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

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.

  1. Evidence for Daily and Weekly Periodic Variability in GPT-4o Performance  🔥🔥🔥
    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in research both as tools and as objects of investigation. Much of this work implicitly assumes that LLM performance under fixed conditions (identica...
  2. A Comparison and Evaluation of Fine-tuned Convolutional Neural Networks to Large Language Models for Image Classification and Segmentation of Brain Tumors on MRI  🔥
    Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in text-based healthcare tasks. However, their utility in image-based applications remains unexplored. We investigate the effectiveness of LL...
  3. User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies  🔥
    Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality training data as they race to improve m...
  4. Obscure but Effective: Classical Chinese Jailbreak Prompt Optimization via Bio-Inspired Search 
    ArXiv link for Obscure but Effective: Classical Chinese Jailbreak Prompt Optimization via Bio-Inspired Search ...
  5. Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work 

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." ;)

  1. Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
  2. ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
  3. Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social(promoted)
  4. Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social(promoted)
  5. David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com(promoted)
  6. Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org(promoted)
  7. Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social(promoted)
  8. Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social(promoted)
  9. Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social(promoted)
  10. Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 (@joshuafoust.com(promoted)
  11. The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social(promoted)
  12. Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social(promoted)
  13. Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social(promoted)
  14. Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social(promoted)
  15. Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com(promoted)
  16. Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu.com(promoted)
  17. Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com(promoted)
  18. Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social(promoted)
  19. davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
  20. Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social(promoted)
  21. Eric Segall (@espinsegall.bsky.social(relegated)
  22. Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social(relegated)
  23. Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social(relegated)
  24. Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social(relegated)
  25. David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social(relegated)
  26. Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social(relegated)
  27. David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social(relegated)
  28. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social(relegated)
  29. Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social(relegated)
  30. Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org(relegated)
  31. Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social(relegated)
  32. Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social(relegated)
  33. Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social(relegated)
  34. Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social(relegated)
  35. dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social(relegated)
  36. Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social(relegated)
  37. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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)
Supra note 1.
Supra note 2.
Blog-like links (law)
⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback.
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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