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.
- Did the Peltola Campaign Seal the Fate of Alaska’s Ranked Choice Vote? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Beyond hotly contested Senate and governor’s races, Alaskans will decide Tuesday whether to scrap the state’s unique ballot. The campaign of Mary Peltola may have bolstered critics of the system.
- Democrats File Suit Over Closed Polling Places in Rural Alaska 🔥🔥🔥🔥Voting sites in 18 far-flung communities failed to open, the suit claims.
- ‘Progress takes time’: Stonewall CEO on turning down the heat on the trans debate 🔥🔥Leader is charting a course through troubled waters as a new survey finds trans people feel more pessimistic about social acceptance after combative decade ...
- Yorkshire Water chief Nicola Shaw resigns after firm downgraded 🔥Nicola Shaw, who has led the company since 2022, will step down in January, it is announced.
- Invasion of the Sexy A.I. Joke Thieves (Gift Article) 🔥Swiping jokes word for word, these bodacious bots mainly lift from young female comedians. What’s so insidious is how they’re subtly changing us, the audience.
- Sen. Chris Murphy hospitalized for stroke, his office says 🔥The Connecticut Democrat, seen as a potential 2028 presidential contender, is “awake and alert” after symptoms began at his son’s hockey game, his office said.
- Opinion | Take Some Deep Breaths and Prepare to Wait for Election Results (Published 2020) 🔥It will enhance the legitimacy of the election if we take the time for an accurate count.
- Should a Catholic preschool that bars kids of gay parents get state money? 🔥The Supreme Court is set Tuesday to hear a case at the intersection of religious rights and Colorado’s antidiscrimination policies.
- Voters Usually Ignore Corruption as an Issue. It Now Has Their Attention. (Gift Article) 🔥Voters have shrugged off accusations of corruption for years, believing all politicians are corrupt, but thanks to President Trump’s unpopularity and growing wealth, the issue is breaking through.
- Nine big oil firms on track to share more than £95bn profit two quarters in a row 🔥Windfall for oil corporations such Saudi Aramco and BP comes on back of soaring fuel prices driven by Iran war ...
- Democrats Show Strength in Final Days of Race for the Senate, New Polls Find (Gift Article) 🔥Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska and are effectively tied with Republicans in Iowa, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
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.
- They Want Us To Forget 🔥🔥🔥I woke up to a reminder that I had left myself on my calendar exactly a year ago.
- Important Sunday Update!! Voter Turnout Surges!! Major Good News Across America!! Good morning, everyone!
- Day of the Dead in Mexico City If you visit, someone someone will inevitably tell you: “The Day of the Dead parade isn’t a real tradition!
- NEWS: Democrats Shatter Early Vote Records Trump White House Prepares for Mass Investigations, Alaska Lawsuit Thrown Out Good evening.
- Norm Eisen Joins Us Live at 12:00 p.m. ET to Update on Election Litigation When Norman Eisen joined us for Five Questions Friday night, many of you told me that his conviction that we were ready for the election made it possible for you to sleep at night.
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.
- #139 in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. X.AI Corp. (N.D. Miss., 3:26-cv-00074) – CourtListener.com† 🔥🔥🔥🔥OPINION AND ORDER denying 54 Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim. Signed by District Judge Debra M. Brown on 10/30/2026. (lld)
- Mamdani Proposal Targets AI Customer Service ‘Doom Loops’ (1) 🔥🔥🔥New York City wants to force companies to tell consumers when they’re interacting with artificial intelligence and other computerized systems, part of a proposal to cut down on customer service “doom ...
- Inside the weird and legally dubious phenomenon of AI replicas that copy content creators for views and profit† Creators who have spent years building audiences are being outperformed by AI-generated copycat videos that skirt the boundaries of copyright law.
- Claude Can No Longer Produce A 'Recreation' Of Existing Games Anthropic's new Claude guardrail is stopping users from recreating a game 'even if it is renamed or called original'
- More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result Research finds 55% of lawyers are using AI in legal practices, up from 37% last year, though efficiency gains aren’t as high as expected ...
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.
- State Prosecutions of Speech in the People's Republic of China: Cases Illustrating the Application of National Security and Public Order Laws to Political and Religious Expression† 🔥This volume contains unofficial translations of over 100 documents produced by agencies of the government of the People's Republic of China between 1998 and 202 ...
- The Weakening of Fiduciary Law† In the 1970s and 80s, as major financial institutions grew and diversified their operations, courts and scholars recognized that fiduciary law posed profound ch ...
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.
- Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
- Bouba Beats Kiki, and Other Regularities in the Subjective Preferences of LLMs† 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Bouba Beats Kiki, and Other Regularities in the Subjective Preferences of LLMs ...
- Fundamental Impossibility Results in AI Safety: Trading Off between Desiderata 🔥🔥🔥Is there a fundamental tradeoff between desiderata for safe AI systems, such as harmlessness and helpfulness? We answer by formalizing the interaction between AI systems and users as a game with three...
- Echoes as Anchors: Probabilistic Costs and Attention Refocusing in LLM Reasoning 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Echoes as Anchors: Probabilistic Costs and Attention Refocusing in LLM Reasoning ...
- Training Foundation Models with a Single Algorithm 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Training Foundation Models with a Single Algorithm ...
- Incentives Shape How Humans Co-Create with Generative AI 🔥ArXiv link for Incentives Shape How Humans Co-Create with Generative AI ...
- TreasuryQA Bench: Can AI Agents Work an Archive of Scanned Financial Records? 🔥Organisations keep decades of financial records as scanned PDFs on shared drives, and AI agents can now reach those drives through Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Existing benchmarks do not mirror this production setting because they simplify the task. In some, the relevant documents are hand…
- Does Scaling Toward AGI Depend on What System-1 Lets System-2 Execute? 🔥Progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) has largely relied on scaling a resource-intensive executive, System-2, through larger models, more data and compute, longer reasoning, and more agents. We ask whether the next stage may come instead from co-designing it with System-1, a lightwe…
- Letting AI Formulate the Research Question: Autonomous Research Agents 🔥Systems such as The AI Scientist have shown that AI agents can carry out and write up research, but in those demonstrations humans chose the research area and selected the outputs to show. We study letting the AI formulate the research question itself, and we report every run. Our system gives an o…
- Human--AI Interactions as First-Class Data: A Formal Interaction Model and Runtime for Explainable AI Collaboration 🔥AI assistants are increasingly embedded in computational notebooks, scientific workflows, software engineering tools, and learning systems, yet human-AI interactions are often treated as transient prompt-response exchanges rather than durable data products, hindering reproducibility, explainability…
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)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (promoted)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Free Law Project ⚖ (@free.law) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Marc Veldhoen (@marcveld.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.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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