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.
- Judge Tosses Justice Department Challenge to Minnesota Immigration Laws (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥The Trump administration, which flooded Minnesota with immigration agents this year, argued that policies limiting cooperation with ICE were unconstitutional.
- Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War 🔥🔥🔥Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.
- World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says 🔥🔥🔥The world is shifting rapidly to clean energy but still investing too much in fossil fuels, the IEA says.
- Armored Cars, Now on the American Road (Gift Article) 🔥🔥Drivers are paying for amenities once reserved for banks, law enforcement and the military.
- Serbian President Vucic says he will resign within weeks 🔥🔥Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he would resign within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, following 18 months of anti-government prote...
- The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets 🔥🔥A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
- Everything Trump’s Election Speech Did Not Prove 🔥🔥After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the White House still hasn’t found it.
- Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says 🔥Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’
- On a Colorado farm, solar panels bring shade for plants, power – and cash: in pictures 🔥More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profitThe Guardian receives support for visual climate coverage from the Outrider Foundation. The Guardian’s co...
- Andy Burnham vows to ‘bring back hope’ as he unveils his cabinet 🔥New prime minister says government must ‘do better’ to deliver change but promises prudent approach to economy ...
- Wealth tax on UK’s super-rich could raise £10bn a year, Andy Burnham told 🔥New PM urged to introduce a 2% minimum charge on households with more than £100m in wealth ...
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.
- Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway. 🔥🔥🔥President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.
- ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data 🔥🔥NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
- 239. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court 🔥The Trump administration has activated a secret 30-year-old court that's never been used. Here's what we know, and why we should (and shouldn't) be worried.
- No Dancing For Paramount and Warner Bros., At Least For Now 🔥Merger deal temporarily sidelined by federal judge ...
- Pressing Delete Won't Eliminate the Truth From ICE agent crimes to climate change, Jan. 6 and hunger in America, the Trump regime is working to deny the public knowledge to confront its crimes and failures ...
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.
- The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets 🔥🔥🔥🔥A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
- Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions – #680 in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., 4:24-cv-05417) – CourtListener.com 🔥🔥🔥🔥Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions ...
- China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto China has introduced new regulations effectively banning customizable AI companion apps, forcing users into abrupt digital breakups.
- How LLMs could supercharge mass surveillance in the US The technology could make commercially available bulk datasets even more of a privacy concern.
- US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude.
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.
- Lowering Drug Prices by Reviving Skinny Labels and Patent Challenges and Addressing Patent Thickets In this testimony to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee,
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.
- AI for fossil fuel production: Can 'enabled emissions' be contested under EU law? 🔥🔥🔥🔥Legal and policy discussions on the environmental impacts of AI have drawn attention to the industry's climate impacts, pollution and resource consumption. In c ...
- The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs† 🔥🔥An emerging method to cheaply improve a weaker language model is to finetune it on outputs from a stronger model, such as a proprietary system like ChatGPT (e.g., Alpaca, Self-Instruct, and others). T...
- Excessive Custom Xbrl Tag Usage in 10-K Filings and Sec Oversight† 🔥🔥We conduct an in-depth examination of excessive custom XBRL tag usage in 10-K filings among U.S. firms. We discuss why some firms are prone to creating cu ...
- A micro Lie theory for state estimation in robotics† 🔥🔥A Lie group is an old mathematical abstract object dating back to the XIX century, when mathematician Sophus Lie laid the foundations of the theory of continuous transformation groups. As it often hap...
- Making Agent-Mediated Contributions Governable: A Project-Level Governance Manifest for Open-Source AI Collaboration 🔥Generative AI and coding agents are intensifying a central governance tension in open-source software (OSS): they scale contribution generation faster than maintainers can assess risk, evidence, and accountability. Existing responses improve agent-readability and traceability, but project rules mus…
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)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (promoted)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Legal C (@legalclaret.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.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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