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.
- Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Trump Demanded Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender.’ He Got a Surprise Instead. 🔥🔥🔥
- Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional 🔥🔥
- Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine† 🔥🔥A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
- Newswatch - 13/06/2026 🔥Did the BBC’s coverage of the Belfast knife attack fan the flames of racial tension? And do its journalists focus too much on crimes alleged to be committed by immigrants?
- Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests 🔥Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.
- 3 Amazon Workers Say They’re Under Investigation for Speaking Out About Data Centers 🔥The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.
- Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor 🔥Reform UK leader used private meeting at Bank of England to urge governor to drop plans for state-run cryptocurrency ...
- UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says 🔥Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’
- Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring 🔥
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.
- Thursday Night with Chickens 🔥🔥🔥Tonight, chickens.
- June 18, 2026 🔥Overnight, Ukraine launched its biggest attack on Moscow, the capital of Russia, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
- NEWS: Trump Lashes Out as Obama's Approvals are Higher and Library Opens, Historic GOP Rebuke on Iran, Paint Peels in Reflecting Pool 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- Major Update: "Trump's Versailles Surrender" -- Internal GOP War Erupts, Trump Embraces Stalin/Hitler Comparison, and Moscow Burns 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Clarence Thomas’s War On Affirmative Action Was Never Just About the Law As law students, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor both had memorably awful experiences—and took very different lessons from them.
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.
- D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against xAI Data Center† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- 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.
- The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time 🔥Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
- New Brunswick woman sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led to daughter's death | CBC News† 🔥Alice Carrier died by suicide last year. Her mother says OpenAI failed to implement necessary safeguards despite knowing about the state of her daughter's mental health and even reinforced harmful vie...
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- Interpreting State Statutes in Federal Court 🔥This Article addresses a problem that potentially arises whenever a federal court encounters a state statute. When interpreting the state statute, should the fe ...
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning† Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l ...
- The Ironclad Twenty-Second Amendment The Twenty-Second Amendment provides that “[n]o person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” Although this prohibition on u ...
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.
- Sorries Are Not the Hard Part: An Expert-Review Case Study of a Semi-Autonomous Formalization 🔥🔥🔥Large language models can often close proof gaps in interactive theorem provers, but a verified theorem is not the same thing as a reusable library contribution. We study this distinction through a…
- Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society† 🔥🔥Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant post-training paradigm, enabling large language models (LLMs) to learn from rewards. We observe that societal regulations are structurally similar to ...
- arXiv.org e-Print archive† 🔥🔥
- If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLM-powered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them (e.g., morality or understanding of natural language). Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II, and note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. Hence, the purported anthropomorphic attributes of LLMs are empirically non-unique: although some properties (e.g., responses to prompts) could remain constant, others, such as the interpretation of their perceived behaviour, might change with the substrate. Thus, any empirically-grounded discussion requires explicit measurement criteria; otherwise the interpretation is left to the representation. We then show that assuming that these attributes exist or not in a system, independent of the substrate and in a generalised way, leads to either circular or uninformative conclusions, regardless of the experimenter's viewpoint on the subject. Finally we propose a 'null' assumption, where one assumes LLM non-uniqueness instead of assuming anthropomorphic attributes to set up an experiment, along with examples of it. We also discuss potential objections to our work, briefly survey the field, and prove that Age of Empires II is functionally- and Turing-complete.
- Position: Adversarial ML for LLMs Is Not Making Any Progress In the past decade, considerable research effort has been devoted to securing machine learning (ML) models that operate in adversarial settings. Yet, progress has been slow even for simple "toy" problems (e.g., robustness to small adversarial perturbations) and is often hindered by non-rigorous evaluations. Today, adversarial ML research has shifted towards studying larger, general-purpose language models. In this position paper, we argue that the situation is now even worse: in the era of LLMs, the field of adversarial ML studies problems that are (1) less clearly defined, (2) harder to solve, and (3) even more challenging to evaluate. As a result, we caution that yet another decade of work on adversarial ML may be failing to produce meaningful progress.
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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