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.
- Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
- Sign up for How We Win: a pop-up opinion newsletter with bold ideas for defeating Trumpism 🔥🔥Stacey Abrams, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Naomi Klein, Mehdi Hasan, Bernie Sanders, Rebecca Solnit and other leading thinkers offer ideas and analysis for how to save US democracy and build a better ...
- Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI 🔥🔥The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.
- Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear 🔥The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
- Ukraine Says New Limits on Starlink Are Disrupting Its Military Operations 🔥Ukrainian officials say the limits imposed on the terminals have blunted their ability to attack Russian targets and intercept drones.
- Starlink: Musk says US government may be behind slowdown of Ukraine drone speeds 🔥Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".
- Exclusive | White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Didn’t Pass Bar Exam 🔥Zacharia has previously referred to herself as a lawyer in public appearances.
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.
- Boiling The Frogs 🔥🔥🔥Essay One: The Republic, Revisited.
- NEWS: ‘War Crime’—Musk Cuts Ukraine’s Internet as Russia Strikes, Republicans Concede the House, and Inflation Spikes Fast 🔥Good morning, I’m hearing from people on the ground today that the situation in Ukraine is getting worse fast.
- James Ho Demands First Amendment Right To Post Covert Bathroom Pics - Above the Law 🔥But, remember, he insists he's not trying to audition for higher office.
- NEWS: Republicans Face Protests Nationwide, Musk Throws Trump Under the Bus, Press Secretary Hit With Bar Complaint, and Musk Tries to Bury Documentary 🔥Good afternoon, Republicans are getting protested everywhere they go, and their answer is to try to shut people up.
- October 14, 2026 🔥According to Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov, last night, without warning, Elon Musk’s SpaceX restricted the speed limits for the Starlink terminals Ukraine’s military uses, known as...
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.
- AI companion startup Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing costs and litigation† 🔥🔥🔥The company said the platform became "costly to develop and grow," in Monday filings to the Delaware District bankruptcy court.
- OpenAI Sued Over Children’s Data Used to Train ChatGPT - CNET 🔥🔥🔥The lawsuit says ChatGPT continued to chat with a 12-year-old, even rating her looks.
- OpenAI accuses employee who left for Apple of leaking plans for unreleased device 🔥🔥Hours before Apple and the ChatGPT maker were due to face off in court, a new allegation delayed the showdown ...
- The Fight for Serious AI Regulation Just Won a Big Victory in Massachusetts† 🔥🔥After his primary win, Ed Markey says he’s ready to take on “the criminal enterprises” of Big Tech.
- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoes driverless rideshare ordinance† 🔥Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed an ordinance passed by the City Council to regulate autonomous rideshare vehicles.
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.
- Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Antidiscrimination This Article uses recent anti-Zionism cases as a case study in hostile environment causation. It briefly surveys the approaches to the causation element that co ...
- The Art Critics Won't Save You from the Robots: Confronting A.I. as Misappropriation† Artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems require a wealth of training data, which is often harvested from creators without their consent, and then used to train s ...
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.
- Machine Learning Models Trained on a Longitudinal Survey Dataset Poorly Predict Hundreds of Life Outcomes 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Understanding the predictability of life outcomes is important for public policy and science, but existing studies focus on a limited number of outcomes and therefore struggle to describe the broad pa...
- Learning Perceptual Geometry of Natural Odor Mixtures from LLM-Derived Descriptors 🔥🔥The relationship between odor chemistry and perception remains incompletely understood. Many existing studies focus on the perception of single molecules, whereas natural odors contain tens to hundred...
- Expanding AI Literacy: The 5Cs of News Literacy in the Era of Generative AI 🔥This article adapts the 5Cs framework of news literacy—context, creation, content, circulation, and consumption—to media environments shaped by generative artificial intelligence. We argue that prevai...
- Generative AI enables human-centered design of sustainable plant-based foods 🔥ArXiv link for Generative AI enables human-centered design of sustainable plant-based foods ...
- Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM...† When retrieved evidence contradicts an agent's prior beliefs, does it revise its answer, acknowledge uncertainty, or persist with an incorrect conclusion? Existing evaluations of agentic systems...
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)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Austin Kocher, PhD (@austinkocher.com) (promoted)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) (promoted)
- T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- 404 Media (@404media.co) (promoted)
- Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Joe Dudek (@joedudekjd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (relegated)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.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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