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 coded this algorithmicly-genrated digest and the AI-summarized podcast 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
- Support Migrants Being Bused to DC from Texas! (~5 shares)
- More migrants dropped off outside Kamala Harris' home in freezing weather on Christmas Eve | CNN Politics (~5 shares)
- More migrants dropped off outside VP Kamala Harris' home on Christmas Eve in frigid temps | WJLA (~4 shares)
- Janet Danahey could go free 20 years after deadly UNCG fire (~3 shares)
- Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains (~3 shares)
- Booked Up with Jen Taub: Book Club: The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama on Apple Podcasts (~3 shares)
- Prisoner of Denver | Vanity Fair (~3 shares)
- “I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability” | Hacker News (~3 shares)
- China stages 'strike drills' around Taiwan, citing provocation | Reuters (~2 shares)
- Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This? | Techdirt (~2 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
- The Truth About Design Patents by Sarah Burstein, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
- A Regulatory Classification of Digital Assets: Toward an Operational Howey Test for Cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and Other Digital Assets by M. Todd Henderson, Max Raskin
- Endogenous and Dangerous by Brian Larson
- The Copyright Claims Board: Good News or Bad News for Communication Scholars? by Patricia Aufderheide, Aram Sinnreich
- Myths and Reality of Patent Law at the Supreme Court by Mark A. Lemley, Paul R. Gugliuzza
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? ;)