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 (~21 shares)
- ActBlue (~16 shares)
- THE POLICY RESPONSE TO THE SMOKING AND LUNG CANCER CONNECTION IN THE 1950s AND 1960s - PMC (~3 shares)
- Former geography teacher Tim Walz is really into maps • Minnesota Reformer (~3 shares)
- Sheraton's Hervey Bay developer did not consult traditional owners, Indigenous group says - ABC News (~3 shares)
- Imane Khelif controversy at Paris Olympics shows how sex testing in women’s sports puts regulators in an impossible bind (~3 shares)
- Glitch :･ﾟ✧ (~3 shares)
- The not-so-silent type: Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers - The Citizen Lab (~3 shares)
- Clinic Publishes Update to Security Researcher’s Guide to Legal Risk (~3 shares)
- Mayor Adams ‘can’t’ say if Rikers has a culture of sexual abuse, despite 700+ lawsuits - Gothamist (~2 shares)
- New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity - The Atlantic (~2 shares)
- The Future of the Border Is Even More Dystopian Than You Thought – Mother Jones (~2 shares)
- Bush Administration Lawyer Whose Wife Was Killed on 9/11 Supports Plea Deal - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- ActBlue (~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
- Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais
- Against Women's Sports by Nancy Leong
- Proving Actionable Racial Disparity Under the California Racial Justice Act by Colleen V. Chien, W. David Ball, William A. Sundstrom
- The Paper Prisons Racial Justice Act Data Tool by Colleen V. Chien, William A. Sundstrom, Akhil Raj, Bennett Cyphers, Rayna Saron
- [couldn't read title]
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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