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
- Friendica Open Social Space | Kamala Harris for President News & Organizing @ Friendica Open Social Space (~5 shares)
- Decarceration is the best way prisons can adapt to climate change (~3 shares)
- The disability royal commission demanded extensive change. Are the government responses big enough? - ABC News (~3 shares)
- ActBlue (~3 shares)
- Biden admin's Title IX sex discrimination rule goes into effect — but it's blocked in 26 states (~2 shares)
- US Supreme Court judges shouldn’t serve for life (~2 shares)
- Paris Olympics 2024: Canada admits to FIFA it spies regularly in men’s and women’s football after drone scandal (~2 shares)
- Who's in the massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West? | AP News (~2 shares)
- Dark Visitors - Track and Control Artificial Agents Crawling Your Website (~2 shares)
- Moderna’s U.K. Vaccine Patent Pledge Cut Short by Boilerplate - Bill of Health (~2 shares)
- Matildas' Paris Olympics exit is the reality check Australian football has been bracing for - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Code lines on the Union Pacific RR | 15 May 2010. Harvard, C… | Flickr (~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
- Public Law, Private Platforms by Andrew Keane Woods
- Beach Money Exits by Matthew Wansley
- [couldn't read title]
- The state in the platform economy: a typology of alternative approaches by Victo Silva, Raphael Gellert, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
- Standpoint Epistemology, the First Amendment, and University Affirmative Action by Paul A. Gowder
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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