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.
- National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
- Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back 🔥🔥🔥The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
- Jobs Report Live Updates: Growth Cools and Unemployment Rises to 4.2% 🔥🔥🔥U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent, as inflation has maintained pressure on markets and raised costs.
- How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes 🔥Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
- The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article) 🔥The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
- Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article) 🔥The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
- National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article) 🔥The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
- UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children 🔥Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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.
- Five Questions with Iowa’s Democratic Senate Candidate, Josh Turek 🔥🔥🔥Two recent polls show him in the lead ...
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 472. 10/2/26 🔥… Trump’s economy continues to fail miserably for most Americans except for the uber-rich and people in the AI industry, as more bad economic numbers were reported today by the Bureau of Labor Statist...
- Important Friday Night Update 🔥32 days out, the GOP map is collapsing into red states, while Trump's tariffs threaten free chips and salsa and Benny Johnson gets sued for calling protesters "terrorists."
- October 2, 2026 🔥Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...
- ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History 🔥The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.
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.
- Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.† 🔥🔥🔥🔥In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
- Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong? (Gift Article)† 🔥🔥🔥Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
- Sentence tossed in Arizona case where deceased victim was depicted speaking in AI-generated video 🔥🔥An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was i...
- Eric Schmitts the Bed† 🔥Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.
- US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit 🔥Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
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.
- Is the Unitary Executive Democratic or Autocratic Governance?† 🔥🔥This essay examines whether the unitary executive theory provides for democratic or autocratic governance. It argues that the unitary executive theory's underly ...
- Religious Land Use Exceptionalism: The Meaning of "Substantial Burden" in RLUIPA† Religious organizations have fairly predictable needs that come into conflict with the interests of local government. In a land use context, a religious organiz ...
- Ignoring Religious Sincerity Over the past decade and a half, scholars of law and religion have formed a strong consensus in favor of religious sincerity tests in constitutional and statuto ...
- College Sports Eligibility and Antitrust Law† Revenue-generating college sports have been on a collision course with federal antitrust law for more than forty years, with the newest wave of disputes involvi ...
- The Vesting Clauses Are Not Law† Separation-of-powers formalists treat the Constitution’s Vesting Clauses—the first sentences of Articles I, II, and III—as sources of substantive law. Perhaps m ...
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.
- Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
- [2510.04226] What and Whose Knowledge? Measuring Epistemic Diversity in Large Language Models 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as primary knowledge sources, yet their epistemic diversity - defined as the diversity of real-world claims in their outputs - has never been measured. Low epistemic diversity would pose a risk of knowledge collapse as homogeneous LLMs mediate a shrinking in the range of accessible information over time. The dominant paradigm is that overall LLM diversity is low, but this is always with respect to a single point in time, with no reference baseline or consideration for variation across countries. We address this gap in knowledge by performing the first systematic study of epistemic diversity in LLMs across time and cultural context, testing 27 LLMs on 155 topics covering 12 countries, resulting in 1.7M responses and 70M individual claims. We find that epistemic diversity has increased substantially over the past three years, a positive counter to recent diversity pessimism. However, despite progress, we find that every system is less diverse than a search baseline. This gap is not uniform: RAG can improve diversity, while large models are counterintuitively less diverse than smaller ones. Moreover, LLM parametric knowledge systematically reflects English over local-language knowledge for country specific topics. Together, these results demonstrate that while progress on epistemic diversity is tangible, it is insufficient and unevenly distributed.
- Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition 🔥Mathematical reasoning is an increasingly important indicator of large language model (LLM) capabilities, yet we lack understanding of how LLMs process even simple mathematical tasks. To address this,...
- Generalizable experiment agents threaten online behavioral experiments Online behavioral experiments rely on the assumption that participants are human. Advances in large language models (LLMs) challenge this assumption, but previous demonstrations have largely focused o...
- Embedding Physics Priors in Robot Learning: A Survey The rapid progress of artificial intelligence is reshaping robotics and accelerating the adoption of learning-based approaches. While purely data-driven methods have achieved remarkable success in com...
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)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.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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