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.
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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to the news of the day! Today, we'll look at the firing of a top Twitter engineer at the behest of Elon Musk, why a federal judge is questioning the constitutionality of abortion, and a Dungeon Master's Helper. Get ready to explore the world of tech news, legal issues, and gaming! Plus, a new online server, nginx, has launched to provide a permanent home for the website. So buckle up, it's time to dive into the stories of today! 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
- LITCon 2023: Collaboration at Scale (~16 shares)
- Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count (~10 shares)
- Why a federal judge is asking if abortion is still maybe constitutional. (~7 shares)
- 'Sam? Are you there?!' The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX (~5 shares)
- Dungeon Master's Helper (~4 shares)
- LawNext: Ep 193: ‘A Bit Of A Nothingburger’: Joshua Browder Speaks To The DoNotPay Controversy (~4 shares)
- 403 Forbidden (~4 shares)
- Originalism is going to get women killed - The Atlantic (~4 shares)
- QnA Markup (~4 shares)
- Welcome to Wildebeest: the Fediverse on Cloudflare (~4 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
- Accidental Abolition? Exploring Section 230 as Non-Reformist Reform by Kendra Albert
- The Forgotten Stewards of Higher Education Quality by Matthew A. Bruckner
- Digital Curb Cuts: Towards an Inclusive Open Forms Ecosystem by Quinten Steenhuis, David Colarusso
- The Decline of Violent Conflicts: What Do the Data Really Say? by Pasquale Cirillo, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Data Subject Rights as a Tool for Platform Worker Resistance: Lessons from the Uber/Ola Judgments by Wenlong Li, Jill Toh
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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