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.
- Jair Bolsonaro’s son sentenced to four years in jail for seeking US interference in father’s Brazil coup trial 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Brazil supreme court finds that Eduardo Bolsonaro – who resides in the US - tried to get sanctions put on judges trying ex-president over coup plot ...
- Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine 🔥A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
- I’m a 14-year-old trans athlete. No one should face the vicious attacks I have faced | Lina Haaga People understand gender differently, and I was taught to respect all ideas. But the vitriol I recently experienced was not a healthy debate ...
- DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
- Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
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.
- Trans prisoners' medical care remains protected after a flurry of court rulings on Wednesday 🔥🔥🔥A D.C. Circuit ruling would have allowed the Trump admin's anti-trans policy to go into effect, but a new district court injunction issued hours later blocked the policy yet again.
- NEWS: Trump Fumes as World Leaders View Him as Weak and GOP Says Obama's Deal Was Better, Algae Gets Worse, Maxwell News, & More 🔥Good morning, everyone.
- NEWS: Republicans Blast Iran Deal, Trump Suggests Selling "Dirty" and "Poor" Puerto Rico, Court Orders Major Epstein Release, and More 🔥Good evening.
- Trump and Miller Wanted To Suspend Habeas Corpus And they're still looking for ways to keep the courts out of immigration cases.
- Midweek Update #15: The MOU Is Out Hi all,
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.
- D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against xAI Data Center 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Mississippi Judge Boots Lawyers From Both Sides of Case for ‘Blindly Relying on’ AI† 🔥🔥A federal judge in Mississippi booted all lawyers from both sides of a case on Tuesday over AI hallucinations in court filings.
- SpaceX gets assist from DOJ in effort to toss NAACP air pollution lawsuit† 🔥The DOJ is asking a Mississippi federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the NAACP against Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX.
- New Brunswick woman sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led to daughter's death | CBC News 🔥Alice Carrier died by suicide last year. Her mother says OpenAI failed to implement necessary safeguards despite knowing about the state of her daughter's mental health and even reinforced harmful vie...
- Meta reportedly enters agreement with firm that makes facial recognition tech for law enforcement† 🔥The firm makes face recognition software for the U.S. Marshals Service.
- Pension fund claims Microsoft duped investors about AI growth† 🔥A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges Microsoft inflated its stock price last year amid the artificial-intelligence boom.
- Meta licensed ROC facial recognition, liveness for smart glasses project | Biometric Update† 🔥Meta’s development of facial recognition for its smart glasses is drawing sharper scrutiny after reporting that the company licensed technology from ROC ...
- DOJ aims to block suit over Musk data center pollution, citing national security† 🔥The Justice Department has moved to stop litigation over xAI's data center pollution in Mississippi, having also intervened in a separate lawsuit against Elon Musk's company in Colorado.
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.
- An Empirical Study Of Malingering In Insanity Cases Across Twelve Decades† The last 120 years have seen a surge in the use of neuroscientific evidence in American criminal law cases, fueled by discoveries in brain science that&nbs ...
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l ...
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 AI Fiction Paradox† 🔥🔥🔥AI development has a fiction dependency problem: models are built on massive corpora of modern fiction and desperately need more of it, yet they struggle to generate it. I term this the AI-Fiction Par...
- AI can help scientists publish less† 🔥🔥🔥We can do more than defend science from a flood of AI-assisted papers. Used well, AI offers a historic opportunity to correct distortions in the publication system, help us publish fewer and better pa...
- Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions† 🔥🔥ArXiv link for Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions ...
- Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society 🔥Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant post-training paradigm, enabling large language models (LLMs) to learn from rewards. We observe that societal regulations are structurally similar to ...
- arXiv.org e-Print archive† 🔥
- Playing With AI: How Do State-Of-The-Art Large Language Models Perform in the 1977 Text-Based Adventure Game Zork?† 🔥In this positioning paper, we evaluate the problem-solving and reasoning capabilities of contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) through their performance in Zork, the seminal text-based adventure g...
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)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social)
- davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyon.goodlawproject.org)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Kathryn Tewson (@kathryntewson.bsky.social)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social)
- Jonathon Booth (@jboothhistory.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (relegated)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.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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