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 (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.
- Man charged after suspected anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Two people were injured close to a mosque and a man was later seen battering the door of a pizzeria as members of the public run away.
- Memo by Rubio Approved Detention of Immigrant Who Criticized Trump Ally 🔥🔥
- Paramount Refused to Air an Ad Criticizing Its Merger With Warner Bros. 🔥🔥The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.
- AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance 🔥🔥
- The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It 🔥🔥Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.
- Cyclist arrested at Reflecting Pool is former Olympian who denies vandalism claims 🔥David Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” Trump has accused vandals of sabotaging the refurbishment as paint was seen peeling and...
- How Europe’s EV makers shrank their product to challenge the bloated SUVs 🔥Smaller, cheaper cars built for narrow city streets are becoming more stylish – but require careful design decisions ...
- Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack 🔥
- Not just books - how renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy 🔥Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function.
- Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon 🔥Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country ...
- What it means to Curacao 🔥A remarkable result in Kansas City, where Curacao have held on, against the odds and under huge pressure, to claim their first World Cup point. Their players look exhausted but overjoyed, particularly...
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 Executive Order To Restrict Vote By Mail 🔥🔥🔥Trump is still trying to suppress your vote ...
- Important Epstein Deep Dive: Investigations Ramp Up as Accountability is Coming Good afternoon, everyone.
- June 20, 2026 The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a metaphor for the Trump presidency.
- Important Saturday News Update Good evening, everyone.
- What it means to Curacao A remarkable result in Kansas City, where Curacao have held on, against the odds and under huge pressure, to claim their first World Cup point. Their players look exhausted but overjoyed, particularly...
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.
- Why AI Billionaires Are Spending $8M Trying to Beat Alex Bores 🔥🔥🔥YouTube video by Eliza Orlins ...
- Objection: Can Alex Bores Defeat Trump’s AI Megadonors in NYC? 🔥🔥The AI billionaires trying to buy NY-12—and the 5 things you need to know before June 23.
- Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake 🔥This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
- Exhibit Declaration of Cameron Stanley – #58, Att. #1 in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. X.AI Corp. (N.D. Miss., 3:26-cv-00074) – CourtListener.com 🔥MOTION to Intervene as a Plaintiff, MOTION to Dismiss by United States of America. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Declaration of Cameron Stanley, # 2 Exhibit Letter from Governor Reeves) (Darlington, Andre...
- Amazon investigating engineers who criticized AI data center expansion 🔥Five Amazon employees testified at Seattle City Council meetings where officials sought feedback on a year-long data center new construction pause.
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.
- The Bizarro First Amendment Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
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.
- Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems 🔥🔥Autonomous agentic AI systems driven by Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce a new class of security, privacy, and compliance challenges: an agent that can invoke tools, manipulate data, install software, and coordinate with peer agents across organizational boundaries must be constrained not just by authentication and access control, but by the full structure of enterprise governance. This includes specifying what agents are permitted and prohibited from doing, what they areobliged to do after certain actions (e.g., notify the CISO), under what conditions a standing obligation may be waived, and which rules take precedence when policies conflict. This governance problem exceeds what current policy engines provide. Systems such as XACML, Rego, and Cedar address only the permit/prohibit subset of this governance structure. They do not provide obligation lifecycle management, meta-policy conflict resolution, dispensations that waive obligations in specific circumstances, and ontological reasoning over domain class hierarchies commonly found in applications such as healthcare, cybersecurity, or data privacy. We propose AgenticRei, which realizes key governance requirements such as obligations, dispensations, policy conflict resolutions, and reasoning over policies, as well as the basic permit/prohibit constraints. We use a deontic policy language built on the Rei framework, expressed as OWL (Web Ontology Language) and evaluated at runtime by a high-performance logic engine entirely outside the LLM. The same pipeline governs both tool invocations by the agent and agent-to-agent messages. We show through examples that deontic policies capture governance constraints around security and privacy that mostly cannot be expressed in current production engines. Our approach composes naturally with industry-standard frameworks like A2AS.
- MORTAR: Multi-turn Metamorphic Testing for LLM-based Dialogue Systems 🔥🔥ArXiv link for MORTAR: Multi-turn Metamorphic Testing for LLM-based Dialogue Systems ...
- Fake Plastic Voters: When Political Parties Can Use AI-Simulated Focus Groups 🔥Political parties strive to understand their electorates, and focus groups are a vital tool in these efforts. AI-enhanced simulation technologies (AESTs) enable ...
- Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...
- Geometric and Stochastic Analysis of Discontinuities in Sparse Mixture-of-Experts ArXiv link for Geometric and Stochastic Analysis of Discontinuities in Sparse Mixture-of-Experts ...
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)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Bernal (@paulbernal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 (@tryangregory.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org)
- Prof Gavin Yamey (@gavinyamey.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kathryn Tewson (@kathryntewson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathon Booth (@jboothhistory.bsky.social) (relegated)
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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