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.
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.
- Covid vaccine linked to broad protections against heart conditions, study finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The vaccine reduced cardiovascular conditions, hospitalizations and deaths of all causes, including those not linked to covid, researchers said.
- Experts alarmed as Trump launches broad-front attack on US voting rights 🔥🔥With election denialists installed in key positions, officials using series of measures to change voting rules ...
- Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society 🔥🔥More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
- ICE removed detainee protections after private outreach from top contractor 🔥In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit Geo Group’s legal defense.
- The ‘Presumption of Regularity’ Is Evaporating 🔥Judges have long defaulted to a posture of trust toward the federal government, but under Trump that is changing, and a new set of legal possibilities is emerging.
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.
- NEWS: Trump Lashes Out at Staff Over Secret Epstein Recordings, Colbert Gets CBS to Pay Millions, Vance Seeks Rebrand Ahead of 2028 🔥🔥Good afternoon.
- Watergate | Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson 🔥🔥Tomorrow is the anniversary of the 1972 Watergate break in.
- Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law 🔥Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents ...
- June 16, 2026 🔥A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that even before a fighter launched a slur at former First Lady Michelle Obama, and even before the sight of the corporate branding at the event, only 16% of Americans thou...
- Amee Vanderpool (@shero) This clip is the perfect example of how JD Vance will deflect from really answering a question and try to pivot to a Trump narrative that is completely untrue. Instead of explaining that the Trump a...
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.
- Mississippi Judge Boots Lawyers From Both Sides of Case for ‘Blindly Relying on’ AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥A federal judge in Mississippi booted all lawyers from both sides of a case on Tuesday over AI hallucinations in court filings.
- SpaceX gets assist from DOJ in effort to toss NAACP air pollution lawsuit 🔥🔥The DOJ is asking a Mississippi federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the NAACP against Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX.
- Meta reportedly enters agreement with firm that makes facial recognition tech for law enforcement† 🔥🔥The firm makes face recognition software for the U.S. Marshals Service.
- Pension fund claims Microsoft duped investors about AI growth 🔥🔥A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges Microsoft inflated its stock price last year amid the artificial-intelligence boom.
- Meta licensed ROC facial recognition, liveness for smart glasses project | Biometric Update† 🔥Meta’s development of facial recognition for its smart glasses is drawing sharper scrutiny after reporting that the company licensed technology from ROC ...
- DOJ aims to block suit over Musk data center pollution, citing national security 🔥The Justice Department has moved to stop litigation over xAI's data center pollution in Mississippi, having also intervened in a separate lawsuit against Elon Musk's company in Colorado.
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.
- An Empirical Study Of Malingering In Insanity Cases Across Twelve Decades The last 120 years have seen a surge in the use of neuroscientific evidence in American criminal law cases, fueled by discoveries in brain science that&nbs ...
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.
- The AI Fiction Paradox† 🔥🔥🔥AI development has a fiction dependency problem: models are built on massive corpora of modern fiction and desperately need more of it, yet they struggle to generate it. I term this the AI-Fiction Par...
- AI can help scientists publish less† 🔥🔥🔥We can do more than defend science from a flood of AI-assisted papers. Used well, AI offers a historic opportunity to correct distortions in the publication system, help us publish fewer and better pa...
- Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions ...
- Playing With AI: How Do State-Of-The-Art Large Language Models Perform in the 1977 Text-Based Adventure Game Zork?† 🔥In this positioning paper, we evaluate the problem-solving and reasoning capabilities of contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) through their performance in Zork, the seminal text-based adventure g...
- Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model Nearby neurons in cortex share similar response profiles, producing systematic spatial organization across sensory and cognitive systems. Recent topographic models reproduce aspects of this structure but remain unimodal and spatially constrain each layer separately, yielding fragmented maps that capture neither the contiguity of cortical processing streams nor their integration across modalities. We introduce Topo-Omni, a topographic multimodal model in which visual, auditory, and language/cognitive processing share a single contiguous in-silico sheet. Built by fine-tuning a pretrained foundation model with a spatial smoothness objective, this architecture develops clusters across modalities that are consistent with human neuroimaging, from sensory to cognitive systems. Driving or suppressing a cluster selectively biases or impairs perception, paralleling human intervention studies. Finally, we use our model to screen for novel clusters in-silico and discover new natural landscape and animal networks which we validate in human data. A single spatial principle thus organizes representations across modalities and processing stages, yielding testable hypotheses about cortical organization.
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)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathryn Tewson (@kathryntewson.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social)
- Jonathon Booth (@jboothhistory.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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