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.
- Teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Musk's AI chatbot has created millions of fake sexualised images, experts say.
- Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find 🔥🔥🔥Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests ...
- Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care 🔥🔥In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.
- An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article) 🔥Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.
- Why are French prosecutors investigating Elon Musk's X? 🔥Elon Musk's summons for questioning by prosecutors in Paris is linked to a widened investigation into alleged offences linked to X's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, abuse of algorithms and fraud...
- Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party (Gift Article) 🔥The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.
- Brazil Blocks Visit by U.S. Delegation Seeking to Question Election System (Gift Article) 🔥Brazilian authorities refused to grant visas to two senior U.S. officials out of concern they planned to sow doubt about the security of the country’s voting systems.
- Kalshi debuts US midterms hub for election forecasts and polling data 🔥Prediction market operator Kalshi said it had launched a new hub for tracking the U.S. midterm elections, offering users real-time election forecasts alongside polling, fundraising and historical el...
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.
- An Important Epstein Files Update 🔥🔥🔥This afternoon, federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan did something unexpected.
- The Week Ahead 🔥July 26, 2026 ...
- We used to be able to buy things in this country 🔥Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy ...
- Major Good News and Personal Updates!! We are Breaking Through Together!! Good morning, everyone, and happy Sunday.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 426. …NYT: “The war between the US and Iran remained on pause for a second straight day on Sunday, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that there had been some movement in talks between Tehran and medi...
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.
- Teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Musk's AI chatbot has created millions of fake sexualised images, experts say.
- “Privacy for Profits”: ACLU Warns Flock Building a Nationwide Surveillance Network† 🔥The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-so...
- Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law† A recently enacted New York law mandates that companies disclose when an ad includes a "synthetic performer" in place of a human actor.
- Anthropic Doubles Midterm Spending to $40 Million to Push AI Regulation The move ramps up a conflict between warring factions in Silicon Valley over how to regulate the transformative technology.
- Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman An Arizona woman is suing Starship Technologies after its delivery robot knocked her onto the pavement, leaving her with numerous injuries.
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.
- Lawyers, Historians and 'Law Office History' Fifty years ago, historian Alfred H. Kelly coined the term “law office history” to describe history as written by legal advocates rather than dispassionate scho ...
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.
- Language Models Embody and Amplify Human Cognitive Distortions: What Is to Be Done? 🔥🔥🔥Human judgment is fundamentally prone to error. A promise of AI is that it will rid decisions of bias and ensure a fairer and safer world for all. Yet research unequivocally demonstrates that LLMs exh...
- Data Annotations as Pedagogical Hints: From Subjective Labels to Critical Thinking 🔥🔥Machine learning courses often use pre-labeled datasets, hiding the subjectivity of human annotation. This creates students with an overly trusting view of AI data and models, undervaluing interpretiv...
- AI systems out-persuade expert humans† 🔥Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has...
- Generative AI Availability, Grades, and Student Satisfaction at a Large University 🔥The spread of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has raised concerns that students offload cognitive effort to AI, earning high grades without learning. If this "GenAI substitution hypothesis" ...
- Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books† 🔥Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial we...
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)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- evacide (@evacide.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (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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