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, this digest, a podcast , and a newsletter to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
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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). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Good day! Today we look at how Ron DeSantis is setting the terms for our understanding of him, a trio of artists suing AI image generators, and a confidential document that reveals the key human role in gunshot technology. Stay tuned! And after the news, stick around for our paper of the day!
~ show summaries ~
† Here AI is referencing a large language model (LLM) tasked with summarizing 3 articles from Most-Shared Links and 1 paper from the SSRN Roundup below. Also FWIW, LLMs are well-known bullshitters.
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- Who sets the terms for our understanding of Ron DeSantis - Notes from Calico Manor (~6 shares)
- Meet The Trio Of Artists Suing AI Image Generators (~4 shares)
- Confidential document reveals key human role in gunshot tech | AP News (~4 shares)
- Germany snubs Ukraine’s tank request – POLITICO (~4 shares)
- Musk's Ex-Wife Texted Him to Fight Twitter 'Woke-Ism': Report (~4 shares)
- Amazon discontinues charity donation program amid cost cuts (~4 shares)
- Boston, regional police dodge transparency ordinance In bolstering surveillance network - The Bay State Banner (~4 shares)
- The Primary Thing Eric Herschmann Remembers from January 6 Is that Cassidy Hutchinson Was Wrong about That Note - emptywheel (~3 shares)
- Just Transitions and International Law conference | University of Dundee (~3 shares)
- Germany snubs Ukraine’s tank request – POLITICO (~3 shares)
¹ Yesterday doesn't include the entire day as this page is created a few hours before mindnight.
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
- The Right to Repair, Competition, and Intellectual Property by Michael A. Carrier
- Short Sellers, Short Squeezes, and Securities Fraud by Christine Hurt, Paul J. Stancil
- Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning by Neil Thompson, Brian Flanagan, Edana Richardson, Brian McKenzie, Xueyun Luo
- Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice by Ben Fernandez
- ‘A Most Equitable Drug’: How the Clinical Studies of Convalescent Plasma as a Treatment for SARS-CoV-2 Might Usefully Inform Post-Pandemic Public Sector Approaches to Drug Development by Quinn Grundy, Chantal Campbell, Ridwaanah Ali, Matthew Herder, Kelly Holloway
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? ;)Search
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