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 †
Welcome to today's news roundup! We're talking about Justice Clarence Thomas's megadonor friend and his collection of Hitler memorabilia. We're also looking into AI-generated images, and the short life and humiliating death of the Clipper Chip. And after the news, stick around for our paper of the day!
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† 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
- Justice Clarence Thomas’s megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia – report | Clarence Thomas | The Guardian (~5 shares)
- Metaphysical Animals by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman: 9780385545709 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books (~4 shares)
- See How Real AI-Generated Images Have Become - The New York Times (~4 shares)
- The Short Life and Humiliating Death of the Clipper Chip (~4 shares)
- Warning not to visit over 30 UK beaches this holiday weekend due to raw sewage - Mirror Online (~3 shares)
- About - Mastodon (~3 shares)
- Opinion | The Abortion Pill Ruling Is Bad Law, and the Biden Administration Should Fight It - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- Stanford Law School’s Dean Takes a Stand for Free Speech. Will It Work? - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- The myth of ‘woke’ indoctrination of students | The Hill (~2 shares)
- Garrett Foster death: Texas governor says he will pardon Daniel Perry (~2 shares)
- Greg Abbott backs pardon for Daniel Perry, who killed Austin protester | The Texas Tribune (~2 shares)
- This stark vision of Grenfell reveals so much about the elite that really rules us | Kenan Malik | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Exhibit A – #1242, Att. #1 in FTX Trading Ltd. (Bankr. D. Del., 22-11068) – CourtListener.com (~2 shares)
- Ben Ferencz, last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103 | Reuters (~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 Critical Race Theory Analysis of Critical Race Theory Bans by Caroline Mala Corbin
- Strategic Regulatory Non-Disclosure: The Case of the Missing Form D by Kathleen Weiss Hanley , Qianqian Yu
- Global Health Governance and the Contentious Politics of Human Rights: Mainstreaming the Right to Health for Public Health Advancement by Benjamin Mason Meier
- Opportunistic Originalism and the Establishment Clause by Caroline Mala Corbin
- Strengthening Our Intuitions About Hacking by Jeffrey Vagle
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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