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 †
Today, we're looking at three stories that really stand out. First, Twitter reportedly has a secret VIP list: celebrities and politicians who get boosted over everyone else. Then, a federal judge in Texas declined to grant relief to students at West Texas A&M University after their charity drag show was banned due to the president's personal opposition. Finally, Republicans are proposing a bill to protect Donald Trump from possible prosecution. 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
- Here’s How We Can Learn and Improve From the French Tax Code (~8 shares)
- The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else (~8 shares)
- Texas judge: No immediate relief for students facing drag show ban (~5 shares)
- 2600? How Phreaking Really Worked - YouTube (~5 shares)
- GOP eyes possible legislation to shield Trump from prosecution (~5 shares)
- FIRE Sues West Texas A&M Over Its Blocking of Student Group's Drag Show (~4 shares)
- Elon Musk Values Twitter at $20 Billion - The New York Times (~4 shares)
- Reporter covering Covenant School shooting says she survived school shooting - The Washington Post (~3 shares)
- The Girl with the Bloody Dreadlocks: True Love, Killer Cops & Trump's Satanic "Q" Cult - Kindle edition by McWilliams, J. Maverick. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. (~3 shares)
- US20220040049A1 - Depilatory Wax Additive and Process - Google Patents (~3 shares)
- Afroman speaks out about being sued by officers who raided his home : NPR (~3 shares)
- N.Y. grand jury not expected to vote on possible Trump indictment this week (~3 shares)
- Half of Twitter Blue subscribers have less than 1,000 followers | Mashable (~3 shares)
- Wellbrook Loop Antennas (~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
- Culpability in Atrocity and the Role of Complicit Observer by Haley S. Anderson
- Rescuing the Invention from the Cult of the Claim by Oskar Liivak
- Red Courts, Blue Courts by Mark A. Lemley
- The Constitutional Limits of Criminal Supervision by Eric S. Fish
- Bail at the Founding by Kellen Funk, Sandra G. Mayson
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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