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
- AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? (~8 shares)
- Politicians may rail against the ‘deep state,’ but research shows federal workers are effective and committed, not subversive (~5 shares)
- Tell the U.S. Senate: STOP RISAA, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion | EFF Action Center (~3 shares)
- Privacywaakhonden: 'Meta mag gebruikers niet dwingen zich te laten volgen' (~3 shares)
- The Right to Deposit - Statement (~2 shares)
- ARL to Congress: No One Can Own the Law - Association of Research Libraries (~2 shares)
- The Electric Vehicle Developmental State | Paolo Gerbaudo (~2 shares)
- Trader Joe’s and Starbucks are helping Elon Musk undermine the US government | Steven Greenhouse | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds | Global development | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Conservative justices question overcriminalization now, with Jan. 6 case (~2 shares)
- YouTube sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its videos • The Register (~2 shares)
- The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (~2 shares)
- EDPB: ‘Consent or Pay’ models should offer real choice | European Data Protection Board (~2 shares)
- How the civil justice system forced Hugh Grant to settle (~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
- Jukin’ the Stats: The Gaming of Law School Rankings and How to Stop It by Darren Bush, Jessica Peterson
- Australia’s Never-ending Privacy Reform Process by Graham Greenleaf
- Amicus Curiae Brief of 69 Professors of Law, Economics, Business, and Medicine in Support of Plaintiff by Michael A. Carrier
- The Illusion of Inclusion: The False Promise of the New Governance Project for Content Moderation by Brenda Dvoskin
- Will the Real Shareholder Primacy Please Stand Up? 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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