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.
If you like what you see, consider joining Mastodon and following @icymi_law@esq.social, the bot feeding this page content. You may also enjoy 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). 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
- Redirecting... (~4 shares)
- Forgotten words: ‘A well regulated Militia’ | The Hill (~4 shares)
- Why Do Modern Pop Songs Have So Many Credited Writers? (~4 shares)
- ICE center in Tacoma uses ‘chemical agents’ on people detained there - oregonlive.com (~4 shares)
- Opinion | Don’t Let Republican ‘Judge Shoppers’ Thwart the Will of Voters - The New York Times (~4 shares)
- Florida schools tell teachers: Hide your books to avoid felony charges - The Washington Post (~4 shares)
- COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of ‘overcounts’ | SPH (~3 shares)
- Biden on robust jobs numbers: The ‘critics and cynics are wrong’ - POLITICO (~3 shares)
- Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing 'good' content • TechCrunch (~3 shares)
- I thought I owned my printer. But my printer owns me. - The Atlantic (~3 shares)
- Conservatives angry about school ‘indoctrination’ are telling on themselves | Jan-Werner Müller | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Democrats Overhaul Party’s Primary Calendar, Upending a Political Tradition - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- Care worker whistleblower outed by Home Office over exploitation claims | Migration | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Stability AI CEO Told Staff They're 'All Going to Die in 2023': Report (~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
- Infringement, Unbound by Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
- User-Generated Content Shapes Judicial Reasoning: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial on Wikipedia by Neil Thompson, Xueyun Luo, Brian McKenzie, Edana Richardson, Brian Flanagan
- Abortion, Original Public Meaning, and the Ambiguities of Pregnancy by Evan D. Bernick, Jill Wieber Lens
- The Rule of Algorithm and the Rule of Law by John Tasioulas
- The Design Patent Bar: An Occupational Licensing Failure by Christopher Buccafusco, Jeanne Curtis
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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