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.
Top Posts
AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome everyone to today's top news stories! First, Reddit is being asked to identify users who have discussed piracy on its platform. Then, Warren Beatty recently reprised his role as Dick Tracy in a special on Turner Classic Movies. And finally, we take a look at the infamous off-screen drama between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures, also known as the "Spider-Man Problem". So buckle up and join us for a wild ride! 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
- Reddit should have to identify users who discussed piracy, film studios tell court | Ars Technica (~4 shares)
- Warren Beatty Plays Dick Tracy Again in Surreal TCM Special | IndieWire (~4 shares)
- Why Sony Pictures is stuck rebooting Marvel's Spider-Man forever and ever... : Planet Money : NPR (~4 shares)
- Supreme Court hears oral arguments for Gonzalez v. Google - The Verge (~4 shares)
- Bad News for Fox News - by Josh Barro and Ken White (~4 shares)
- Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Two: The Massive Shift to Electronic Licensing - Michael Geist (~3 shares)
- Biden Went to Kyiv Because There’s No Going Back – Anne Applebaum (~3 shares)
- Netflix Crossed a Line - The Atlantic (~3 shares)
- Companies Can’t Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules (~3 shares)
- What to watch in a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Section 230 | CDSS at UC Berkeley (~3 shares)
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Harvard Law Webinar on Teaching First-Generation Students in Law School, March 10, 12 pm EST (~3 shares)
- Voting Laws Roundup: February 2023 | Brennan Center for Justice (~2 shares)
- Everything Everywhere's Real Raccacoonie and More for Sale (~2 shares)
- China Is Practicing How to Sever Taiwan's Internet (~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
- Prior Bad Acts and Merger Review by Michael A. Carrier, Gwendolyn J. Lindsay Cooley
- SSRN Electronic Library
- Copyright’s Memory Hole by Eric Goldman, Jessica M. Silbey
- Sidewalk Government by Michael Pollack
- Stopping to Smell the 1-800-Flowers: Dignitary Harms in Accessibility Litigation by Blake E. Reid, Zainab Alkebsi
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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