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
- Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog (~7 shares)
- The Revolution Will Be Federated - We Distribute (~4 shares)
- Prison Banned Books Week: Being in Jail Shouldn’t Mean Having Nothing to Read | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~4 shares)
- Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls • The Register (~3 shares)
- Molly White's store (~3 shares)
- Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Five executions are scheduled in America over the course of the next week (~3 shares)
- Elon Musk’s X circumvents official block in Brazil but says move was ‘inadvertent’ | X | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Leonard Leo’s letter to the 85 Fund network is downright chilling. (~2 shares)
- The Age of Weaponized Narrative (~2 shares)
- Real-time crime centers are transforming policing – a criminologist explains how these advanced surveillance systems work (~2 shares)
- State Lawmakers Have Gun Reform Strategy | HuffPost Latest News (~2 shares)
- Beach | 2 August 2014. Pescadero, California. No emulsions w… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Aboriginal people robbed of up to $500m under system akin to ‘slave labour’, Queensland truth-telling inquiry hears | Queensland | The Guardian (~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
- Wai 262 Response: Government Strategy for Māori Engagement by Jayden Houghton
- What Copyright Can’t Do by Blake E. Reid
- Wai 262 Response: Prioritising the Treaty Relationship to Design a Reconciliatory Procedural Framework by Jayden Houghton
- [couldn't read title]
- Physician Decision Making Under Uncertainty in a Post-Dobbs America by Molly J. Walker Wilson, Michael S. Sinha
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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