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 †
Hey, everyone! It's Max here with a roundup of the hottest stories of the day. First up, talc and Twitter have been in the news, with a court ruling on talc products and Twitter ending free access to its API. Next, Harvard's Technology and Social Change Project is shutting down in 2024 due to a policy change. Finally, WIPIP is discussing the legal implications of midcentury modern design and how to separate utility patents and design patents. Don't miss out on the latest developments on these stories – 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
- Space Karen and the Scummy Texas Two-Step by @Andrew Leahey · Zencastr (~5 shares)
- Joan Donovan's misinformaton project at Harvard will close in 2024 - The Washington Post (~4 shares)
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: WIPIP, Concurrent Session #1, Design (~3 shares)
- Raising money as a form of protest - Notes from Calico Manor (~3 shares)
- H.B. 311 Social Media Usage Amendments (~3 shares)
- Exercising the right to access personal data in an interconnected online world – Are we really closer to finding out who the recipients of our data are? – European Law Blog (~3 shares)
- Merch | Dunia and Aram (~3 shares)
- 600 obsidian 1.2-million-year-old handaxes found in Ethiopia (~3 shares)
- The Celsius examiner's report: a picture of fraud and incompetence (~3 shares)
- Google’s fastest-growing business is insuring companies against their workers’ health - The Verge (~2 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
- Uncommon Carriage by Blake E. Reid
- Disorderly Content by Ari Ezra Waldman
- Conflicts & Capital Allocation by Benjamin Edwards
- Effects of Illinois' 36% Interest Rate Cap on Small-Dollar Credit Availability and Financial Well-being by J. Brandon Bolen, Gregory Elliehausen, Thomas Miller
- Legislative Constitutionalism & Federal Indian Law by Maggie Blackhawk
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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