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.
- In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
- Tracking Assault Weapons Bans Across the Country as Court Battles Continue (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥Here are the states that have sought to limit access to some of the most lethal firearms, as gun restrictions face new legal challenges.
- Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.
- At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article) 🔥Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
- Are global stock markets heading for a crash? 🔥Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm ...
- ‘But enough about you …’ How to survive in a world of monologuists, interrupters and trauma dumpers 🔥Conversations are supposed to be two-sided – but all too often we come up against someone who’s passionately, exclusively in love with the sound of their own voice. Time to fight back …
- MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption 🔥Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
- Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help. 🔥“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.
- Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown 🔥Trump’s decisions as president on one of the most consequential policy debates of his administration could affect the value of his personal investments.
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.
- It’s a Nice First Amendment You’ve Got There…† 🔥🔥Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential.
- ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year 🔥🔥Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
- Sunday News Update!! Major Good News and Important Updates About this Channel! 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Important Sunday Update: White House ‘Somber’ as Trump Accepts Grim Outlook, Iran War Escalates, ICE Shooting, Ukraine Attacks 🔥Good evening, everyone.
- 🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Bestsellers 🔥A full list of the top 25 US Politics newsletters and podcasts on Substack. Read about the latest news, opinions and commentaries concerning US Politics, including the 2024 election.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 463. 🔥… Trump is now running the same playbook on his massive triumphal arch as he did on the ballroom when he was losing the lawsuit against him - claim that it is not a vanity project and is all about “na...
- September 20, 2026 🔥Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.
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.
- Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
- A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics† 🔥You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
- Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says† 🔥A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.
- Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show 🔥The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.
- US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition† Angela Lipps, 50, alleges in suit that Fargo police wrongly relied on AI facial recognition to arrest and charge her ...
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.
- Beyond the Horizontal-Vertical Divide: The Case for Team-Based Representation in Public Defense† 🔥🔥🔥This Article challenges the conventional wisdom that public defense systems must choose between "vertical" representation, in which the same attorney ...
- Sports Betting Legalization Amplifies Emotional Cues & Intimate Partner Violence† 🔥This study explores the relationship between legalized sports gambling, unexpected emotional cues, and reported intimate partner violence (IPV). Using crime dat ...
- The Fourth Amendment Limits of Internet Content Preservation 🔥Every year, hundreds of thousands of Internet accounts are copied and set aside by Internet providers on behalf of federal and state law enforcement. This proce ...
- Defendant Pinching & Pressing† “Schedule A” cases, in which plaintiffs bring cookie-cutter complaints alleging IP infringement against groups of online sellers, continue to be filed ...
- Sign Here, Please: The First Amendment Implications of Requiring Loyalty Oaths for Admission to Political Events† The 2003-2004 presidential election cycle was the first to be significantly affected by a number of new forms of campaigning. Internet fundraising, blog journa ...
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.
- The Strong Secretary Conjecture is True for Linear Matroids† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We prove a $1/e$ guarantee for the matroid secretary problem on linear matroids, therefore settling the strong secretary conjecture in this class of matroids. The result holds both when the matroid is...
- "Okay, I've Actually Softened My Take on This": How People in Decentralized Social Media Reason about the Appropriateness of Generative AI 🔥🔥🔥🔥Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly integrated into social media, raising questions about whether, where, and how it belongs. In decentralized social media (DSM), these decisions are distributed acr...
- Does Empirical Finance Replicate?† 🔥🔥An autonomous LLM pipeline rebuilds each result from the paper and available databases, with independent audits of every replication. I obtain 1,328 in-sample r ...
- Has AI Assassinated God? Technology, Secularism, and the Death of the Divine 🔥Nietzsche's declaration that "God is dead" was not a celebration of atheism but a warning about what happens when a society loses the transcendent aut ...
- Will LLMs Scaling Hit the Wall? Breaking Barriers via Distributed Resources on Massive Edge Devices† 🔥The remarkable success of foundation models has been driven by scaling laws, demonstrating that model performance improves predictably with increased training data and model size. However, this scalin...
- A Strongly Aperiodic Monotile in Three Dimensions† 🔥Socolar and Taylor asked for a single, simply connected three-dimensional prototile that forces nonperiodicity by shape alone, admitting no weakly nonperiodic tiling; the Schmitt-Conway-Danzer biprism and the three-dimensional Socolar-Taylor tile admit screw motions or a periodic stacking direction. We exhibit a rational polyhedral $3$-ball $Q$, which we call Chair44 (R44): a seven-cube chair whose $24$ exposed unit panels carry tiny square-pyramid features, and prove, as a proof submission, that $Q$ admits tilings of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by congruent copies, reflections allowed, and that every such tiling has no translational period and a symmetry group of order at most $24$; every tiling is homochiral and carries a unique infinite hierarchy of nested supertiles. The solid was designed to a reading of the aperiodic-monotile phenomenon reached with the Six Birds emergence calculus (Section 3.3), and the construction turns on a single finite test, checked by machine: the tile's own contact rule survives coarsening, so that the decoded parent tiling obeys the tile's rule and no other. The proof combines a written geometric argument, that the features force every tiling onto a registered lattice, with exhaustive finite enumerations; the companion census is replayed by two independent implementations, every finite gate is kernel-checked in Lean 4 (modulo a named compiler hook per native_decide theorem), and the written geometric lemmas and the logical assembly are Lean theorems as well, so that the theorem is kernel-checked modulo the named compiler hooks; the written proofs remain as exposition.
- The Evaluation Differential:When Frontier AI Models Recognise They Are Being Tested† 🔥
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)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin (@reginageorgebush.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.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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