Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the 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, esp. #LawFedi. So I created a bot and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
If you like what you see, consider joining Mastodon and following @icymi_law@esq.social, the bot feeding this page content.
FWIW, here are some law-flavored server suggestions: (1) esq.social (legal general interest); and (2) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
Top Posts
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- ActBlue (~28 shares)
- ActBlue (~9 shares)
- Community Fridge and Pantry (~4 shares)
- Opinion | Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. - The Washington Post (~4 shares)
- Library Pantries Feed Communities! | Let's Move in Libraries (~4 shares)
- Keys to the Past (~3 shares)
- Narrative Quanta: LLMs as RPG Building Blocks: Generate the outcome of a scene for a role-playing game (~3 shares)
- Heidi Li Feldman on LinkedIn: I just gave to Kamala Harris! (~3 shares)
- The Library of Unwritten Books (~3 shares)
- Oops! | Flickr (~3 shares)
- Scottish councils face funding pinch over Microsoft licensing changes – PublicTechnology (~3 shares)
- The Messy Reality Behind Trying To Protect The Internet From Terrible Laws | Techdirt (~2 shares)
- Point break? Why sharing its ‘secret’ wave with the Olympics could cost a tiny Tahitian village dear | Surfing | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Work with Us - Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website (~2 shares)
¹ Yesterday includes yesterday plus anytime today before this page was published. See footer.
SSRN Roundup
I keep an eye out for links to SSRN. Once I collect five, I share them. This is the most-recent bundle.²
- Anthropomorphising machines and computerising minds: the crosswiring of languages between Artificial Intelligence and Brain & Cognitive Sciences by Luciano Floridi, Anna C Nobre
- The Grapes of Roth by Bruce E. Boyden
- The Potential for Race Discrimination in Voucher Programs in a Post-Carson World by Preston Green, Bruce D. Baker, Suzanne Eckes
- Rule or Reason? The Role of Balancing in Antitrust Law by Mark A. Lemley, Michael A. Carrier
- Chartering Religion: Educators' Civil Rights in Religious Charter Schools by Preston Green, Suzanne Eckes, Julie Mead
² Depending on how much folks are sharing, there could be more or less than one bundle per day, this is just the most-recent one.
Traffic
Of course, these insights are all thanks to a community of users, namely the folks I follow over at @icymi_law@esq.social. For fun, here's a look at their posting traffic yesterday. I like trying to create stories about the daily ups and downs. What is that bump? ;)
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