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 †
In today's headlines, the Free Law Project is making the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive. They provide tools and data sets to help organizations, researchers, and the public access legal information. Meanwhile, Meta has decided to block Canadians’ access to news content on Facebook and Instagram if Ottawa’s online news bill, Bill C-18, becomes law. And finally, the authors of the webcomic "Bite Sized Archie" have a new collection available for pre-order now, with free shipping and returns. 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
- Home | Free Law Project | Making the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive. (~7 shares)
- Meta to end Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram if Bill C-18 becomes law - The Globe and Mail (~5 shares)
- Amazon.com: Bite Sized Archie: Going Viral: 9781645768777: Cacace, Ron, Lovallo, Vincent: Books (~5 shares)
- CEO of failed Silicon Valley Bank no longer a director at San Francisco Fed | Reuters (~3 shares)
- Texas man sues women he says helped his ex-wife obtain abortion pills - The Washington Post (~3 shares)
- Civil rights complaint urges state to investigate ICE facility in Plymouth (~3 shares)
- Readers Burrow into a Bookworm Haven in Kurkku Fields' 'Underground Library' — Colossal (~2 shares)
- Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (Live at Montreux 1975) - YouTube (~2 shares)
- Animal constructions and technological knowledge | WorldCat.org (~2 shares)
- Silicon Valley Bank collapses, in biggest failure since financial crisis - POLITICO (~2 shares)
- Circle To ‘Stand Behind’ USDC, Cover $3.3 Billion Shortfall Held in Silicon Valley Bank - Decrypt (~2 shares)
- The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank - by Marc Rubinstein (~2 shares)
- Two vacancies: Lecturer in Law and Technology (Research & Teaching Track) – CREATe (~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
- A SAD New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation by Eric Goldman
- Personal Property Servitudes on the Internet of Things by Christina Mulligan
- Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stability by David Schleicher
- Exclusionary Zoning's Confused Defenders by David Schleicher
- Digital Rummaging by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
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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