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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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to today's news roundup! We've got stories about Thurgood Marshall's legacy, a judge dismissing charges against Sidney Powell, and the Privacy Center's decision to stop using terms like "AI" and "machine learning." Let's take a closer look and explore what all this means for the people involved. 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
- DRAFT REPORT: Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (~10 shares)
- Jessa Duggar Reveals She Suffered a Miscarriage: 'I Just Immediately Started Crying' (~8 shares)
- The Oasis "counter-hack" and the centralization of defi (~7 shares)
- He Changed The Face of America (~4 shares)
- 10 Colleges With the Most Undergraduate Students (~4 shares)
- Shave 'Em Dry - Lucille Bogan (~3 shares)
- Judge tosses attorney ethics case against Trump ally Sidney Powell (~3 shares)
- Many Personal Care Products Contain Harmful Chemicals. Here’s What to Do About It. (~3 shares)
- Educational Censorship Continues: The 2023 Legislative Sessions So Far (~3 shares)
- Biden's national security adviser responds to new report on Covid-19's origin (~3 shares)
- Artifice and Intelligence (~3 shares)
- Everything you wanted to know about AI – but were afraid to ask (~2 shares)
- ‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing (~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
- Conjuring the Flag: The Problem of Implied Government Endorsements by Michael Mattioli
- The Supreme Court Review Act: Fast-Tracking the Interbranch Dialogue by Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl
- Patent-Infringement Suits and the Right to a Jury Trial by Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, Sean Bottomley
- Why Digital Policing is Different by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
- Capital Regulation as Climate Policy by Joel Michaels
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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