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.
- Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
- A Reckoning in Springfield 🔥🔥🔥A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
- UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict 🔥🔥Premier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials said ...
- Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article) 🔥The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
- Opinion | The ‘God Gap’ Is Narrowing in Texas 🔥It may not be enough for James Talarico to win. But might it also be a sign of a change to come?
- Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood 🔥Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK ...
- How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits 🔥The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
- A Campus Reckoning: ‘Cornell Is Now Known for This’ 🔥Accusations of sexual assault at a fraternity party have tarnished the self-image of a fiercely proud Ivy League institution. Can the university ever be the same?
- Hackers Breached Propulsion System of US-Bound Oil Tanker 🔥FBI and US Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was approaching the Texas coast this summer, according to US officials ...
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.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473. 🔥🔥… NYT: “One month until Election Day, voter dissatisfaction with the economy, concerns about political extremism and frustration with Trump have Democrats within reach of flipping 4 Republican-held go...
- Major Deep Dive: Trump Is Defying Congress' Power of the Purse. Here’s a Roadmap for Investigating His Misuse of Taxpayer Funds 🔥🔥He was once forced to pay $2 million for misusing his own charity's money for politics. Now it's the federal Treasury. Here's the roadmap Congress needs.
- Read the “Cornell 7” Documents 🔥I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
- Important Sunday Update!! Major Good News!! 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- Small Courage (Kharkiv Meditations, 2/10) 🔥Kharkiv Meditations 2/10 ...
- October 4, 2026 🔥On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
- The Week Ahead 🔥October 4, 2026 ...
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.
- 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.
- Court Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played 🔥An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played in court.
- Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet 🔥The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
- Experts Urge Federal Lawmakers to Regulate AI. Will Anyone Heed Their Alarm? | KQED At a Senate subcommittee hearing, safety advocates decried the lack of federal action to protect Americans from fast-evolving AI-enabled threats.
- Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits ...
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.
- 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 ...
- The Constitution of Dictatorship: Hayek and the Supreme Court In 1960, the University of Chicago economist Friedrich A. Hayek published his magnum opus, The Constitution of Liberty. The book argues that a free society depe ...
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.
- Where is the Mind? Persona Vectors and LLM Individuation† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The individuation problem for large language models asks which entities associated with them, if any, should be identified as minds. We approach this problem through mechanistic interpretability, enga...
- 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...
- 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…
- The macaque IT cortex but not current artificial vision networks encode object position in perceptually aligned coordinates Efficient interaction with the visual world requires not only accurate object identification but also precise localization of objects in space. While spatial ("where") processing has traditionally been attributed to dorsal stream pathways, recent work has shown that object position can also be decoded from responses in ventral stream areas such as the inferior temporal (IT) cortex. However, because object position in these paradigms is tightly coupled to pixel-based location, it remains unclear whether ventral stream position signals reflect perceptually meaningful spatial representations or simply inherited retinotopic structure. To address this question, we used the motion aftereffect, a classic visual illusion that shifts perceived object position without changing retinal input. Combining large-scale intracortical recordings in macaque IT with matched human psychophysics, we found that motion adaptation induces systematic direction-opponent biases in IT population codes for object position that mirror human perceptual reports, despite identical pixel-level stimuli. These effects are accompanied by adaptation-driven changes in the geometry of IT population representations. We further tested whether artificial vision systems exhibit similar dynamics. Standard feedforward, recurrent, and state-of-the-art video-based neural networks accurately encode object position but fail to produce adaptation-induced position shifts. However, applying empirically derived transformations based on IT adaptation dynamics to model feature spaces is sufficient to generate similar biases. Together, these results indicate that IT represents object position in perceptually aligned coordinates and also highlight a gap between biological and artificial vision systems in capturing history-dependent spatial coding.
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 Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Robert Black (@hurricanexyz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.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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