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.
If you like these, you'll ❤️ The Finite Scroll, an open-source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader. You might also enjoy this post: How and why I (still) use social media. It includes tips on how to make your own custom social media algo(s).
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.
- Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism 🔥🔥🔥🔥Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism ...
- Another day, another Reform Wales leader. Grumpy Nige seems to miss the old one | John Crace 🔥🔥🔥At a low-key event, Helen Jenner replaces Dan Thomas, who was arrested on suspicion of assault and gets warm words from Farage ...
- Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help† 🔥🔥🔥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.
- Paramount to Settle Lawsuits, Paving Way for Warner Bros. Merger 🔥🔥Paramount Skydance Corp. has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., according to a person familiar with the matte...
- Opinion | Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Why Politics Is So Hard for Celebrities 🔥🔥Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.
- ‘It’s unrecognisable’: How being a tax haven has changed Jersey 🔥🔥While global billionaires and multinational companies have been lured to its shores, many islanders feel left behind and priced out, with food bank use increasing ...
- The Press Struck Back at Trump With the Ultimate Weapon 🔥🔥President Donald Trump surely knows by now that spontaneously banning media from the White House is illegal. He even has alternative — and legitimate — methods to revoke credentials that wouldn’t be s...
- White House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides Conservatives 🔥🔥Some praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles.
- ‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak 🔥‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world ...
- Vet prescription fees to be capped under rule changes 🔥Vets must also tell clients if cheaper medicine is available online as part of the rule updates which surgeries have the coming months to bring in.
- Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article) 🔥In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
- The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate (Gift Article) 🔥Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
- Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount 🔥The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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.
- He Was Making a DoorDash Delivery. Then an ICE Agent Shot Him. 🔥🔥Wilber Rafael Garces Perez says there was no foot chase before an ICE officer shot him. Now, from detention, he says the bullet is still lodged in his body and he isn't getting the medical care he nee ...
- The Wolf Came As A Wolf: Trump and the First Amendment 🔥🔥Tonight’s post is long.
- The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted 🔥Here’s How We Fix It ...
- A Meditation on Gas Stations 🔥On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)
- September 21, 2026 🔥On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.
- Important Update: Media Stands Together Against Trump as President Lashes Out, White House Launches “Trump TV,” and More 🔥Good morning, everyone.
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.
- OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
- 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.
- 4chan Users Are Sharing Tools and Tips for Homebrewing AI Deepfake Porn - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.
- Is A.I. Above the Law? Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own.
- iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI settlement You can receive $25 per eligible device.
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.
- The Vulnerability of the Press, Academic Freedom, and Zealous Advocacy 🔥🔥The Supreme Court of the United States has long acknowledged that a free press, academic freedom, and zealous advocacy are essential to democracy and t ...
- 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 ...
- The Moral Obligations of Government Lawyers All over the world, government lawyers have crucial roles, but in many nations, they are under considerable pressure, and they may be marginalized, ignored, fir ...
- Trademarks, Free Speech, and the Value of a Mark in US Trademark Law The intersection between trademark law and the First Amendment is increasingly fraught. The Supreme Court’s recent decisions in the area leave many unanswered q ...
- Constitutional Justice for Minority Religions in Liberal Secular Democracies Constitutional justice operates along three distinct dimensions of distributive justice: materialredistribution; identity recognition; and democratic participat ...
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.
- Sparse Reward Subsystem in Large Language Models 🔥🔥🔥🔥Recent studies show that LLM hidden states encode reward-related information, such as answer correctness and model confidence. However, existing approaches typically fit black-box probes on the full h...
- "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...
- 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 ...
- Learning-to-Optimize as the Missing Architectural Layer of AI-Native Networks Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a fundamental design principle of future AI-native communication networks, enabling autonomous resource management, adaptive control, and zero-touch network operation. While current AI-native architectures increasingly embed intelligence across network funct…
- HarvestBench: Measuring Whether LLM Agents Will Pay to Avoid Killing Animals
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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