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. To that end, I've put together this algorithmicly-genrated daily digest to showcase some of its great content. If you like what you see, consider joining Mastodon, and following the @icymi_law@esq.social bot. You may also want to learn more about my Lab's April event on collaborating at scale.
FWIW, here are some law-flavored server suggestions: (1) esq.social (legal general interest); (2) law.builders (legal tech et al.); and (3) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics).
A few folks have asked for an email newsletter, but I'd probably have to pay for a service if I don't want it showing up in spam folders. Consequently, I'm only game if enough folks (~100) sign up to be on the mailing list. Content would basically be a text version of the podcast with links.
Top Posts
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- FINAL REPORT of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (~8 shares)
- In Washington, Zelensky seeks to rally support for grueling war with Russia - The Washington Post (~7 shares)
- Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media (~7 shares)
- Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This? | Techdirt (~7 shares)
- JobAnnouncementforDistribution.pdf - Google Drive (~6 shares)
- Inside Google’s Ad Display Network Black Box: Porn, Piracy, Fraud — ProPublica (~5 shares)
- Gorge Design v. Xuansheng - Fed. Cir. briefs | PDF | Lawsuit | Injunction (~5 shares)
- Blue Sphere v. Schedule A - Plaintiff statement re dismissals | PDF | Complaint | Injunction (~5 shares)
- Podcast apps that support 'add RSS feed' | Omny Studio help (~5 shares)
- Gene therapy promising for children with "bubble boy" syndrome (~5 shares)
¹ Yesterday includes today before this list was generated.
SSRN Roundup
I keep an eye out for links to SSRN. Once I collect five, I share them. This is the most-recent bundle.¹
- Pregnant Workers Fairness Acts: Advancing a Progressive Policy in Both Red and Blue America
- Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
- Pregnant Workers Fairness Acts: Advancing a Progressive Policy in Both Red and Blue America by Deborah A. Widiss
- Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data by Marco Di Maggio, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara, Don Carmichael
- The Case Against the Debt Tax by Vijay Raghavan
¹ 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? ;)