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.
- White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.
- U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines 🔥🔥🔥🔥Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.
- Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children 🔥🔥🔥Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
- ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database 🔥DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
- ‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols 🔥Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement ...
- Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article) 🔥Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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.
- The Week Ahead† 🔥🔥🔥October 4, 2026 ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 474. 10/5/26 🔥… Turns out the big steel mill project in IA from the company in India that Trump announced to try and rig the election in that state is actually not looking like a great deal after all since the peop...
- NEWS: Major Epstein Whistleblower Dies, Trump Primes His Base to Reject the Midterms, KKK Seeks Comeback, Paxton in Trouble 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Sometimes, The Court’s Decision About What Cases It Won’t Hear Can Be As Interesting As The Ones It Takes. As the Supreme Court begins its new term, the Justices have made public their decision to decline to hear a number of cases lawyers had been eagerly awaiting.
- Moral Language (Kharkiv Meditations, 3/10) Kharkiv Meditations, 3/10 ...
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.
- Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits ...
- Court Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played† 🔥🔥🔥An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played in court.
- Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet† 🔥🔥The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
- Stephen Miller Is Destroying the Great America Trump Is Trying to Make - emptywheel 🔥Of the 20 Masters of the Universe at Trump's AI summit the other day, 11 are immigrants.
- Anthropic reports Florida woman’s Claude ‘diary’ threat to shoot up sheriff’s office, felony charge follows — it’s at least the third such conversation to reach police since August 🔥Investigators say a message the following day mentioned a new gun.
- Chatbots Still Bad at Spotting AI-Generated Images Despite New Law 🔥The California AI Transparency Act requires AI-generated images to include digital labels, but most chatbots aren’t looking for them.
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.
- Ignoring Religious Sincerity† 🔥🔥Over the past decade and a half, scholars of law and religion have formed a strong consensus in favor of religious sincerity tests in constitutional and statuto ...
- Between Sanctions and Judicial Reasoning: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender Justice in Khalwat Cases in Aceh Cases involving jarīmah khalwat in Aceh raise questions about the application of 'uqūbat and judicial reasoning toward male and female defendants. This study ex ...
- The Constitution of Dictatorship: Hayek and the Supreme Court† In 1960, the University of Chicago economist Friedrich A. Hayek published his magnum opus, The Constitution of Liberty. The book argues that a free society depe ...
- The Medicalization of Abortion Rights In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, advocates brought numerous constitutional challenges ...
- The Union Gospel Mission Cases, Church Autonomy, and Co-Religionist Hiring: A Response to Professor Esbeck Courts have increasingly applied a doctrine of church autonomy to resolve claims involving religious organizations. A recent decision of the Ninth Circuit ...
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.
- Where is the Mind? Persona Vectors and LLM Individuation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The individuation problem for large language models asks which entities associated with them, if any, should be identified as minds. We approach this problem through mechanistic interpretability, enga...
- Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy† 🔥🔥🔥arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
- Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition† 🔥🔥Mathematical reasoning is an increasingly important indicator of large language model (LLM) capabilities, yet we lack understanding of how LLMs process even simple mathematical tasks. To address this,...
- Generalizable experiment agents threaten online behavioral experiments† 🔥Online behavioral experiments rely on the assumption that participants are human. Advances in large language models (LLMs) challenge this assumption, but previous demonstrations have largely focused o...
- Mathematical Illustration: Proof, Intuition and AI In the French pedagogic tradition of Gaspard Monge, geometry was learned by drawing and handling models: drawing was knowing. The formalism of the early twentieth century placed illustration on the si...
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)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.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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