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 (~4 shares)
- Kamala Harris, Protagonist - emptywheel (~4 shares)
- How Harris Roped a Dope - The Atlantic (~4 shares)
- Court Enjoins the Utah "Minor Protection in Social Media Act"-NetChoice v. Reyes - Technology & Marketing Law Blog (~4 shares)
- Internet Archive’s Open Library Faces Uncertain Future After Court Sides With Publishers | KQED (~3 shares)
- Project 2025 wants to surveil abortions in California - CalMatters (~3 shares)
- Life insurers banned from using genetic tests to deny cover or hike premiums - ABC News (~2 shares)
- How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose (~2 shares)
- Donald Trump can't even explain the post-Roe reality. Kamala Harris can — and did. (~2 shares)
- DuD-Poll (~2 shares)
- How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose: a songwriter’s practical lesson in written advocacy – The Law and Policy Blog (~2 shares)
- Following Swift endorsement, Harris plays ‘The Man’ when leaving post-debate party | CNN (~2 shares)
- What's become of The Times & Co.? — BuzzMachine (~2 shares)
- Springfield, Ohio, parents ask Trump and Vance to stop using their child as 'political tool' - ABC News (~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
- Political Fair Use by Cathay Smith
- Video Game Law by Mark A. Lemley, Sonali Maitra
- Thinking About Possible Remedies in the Generative AI Copyright Cases by Pamela Samuelson
- Emotions and Ethics in Teaching Mass Atrocities Using Archives by Andy Aydın-Aitchison, Annalisa Battista
- Not Dead Yet: A Reply to Professors Manesh and Grundfest by Ann Lipton
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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