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.
If you like what you see, consider joining Mastodon and following @icymi_law@esq.social, the bot feeding this page content. You may also enjoy my Lab's April event on collaborating at scale.
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 edition of the news! We’ve got some interesting stories to discuss today. First, the Canadian government has rejected a proposed amendment to Bill C-11. Next, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to pay $5 million in a “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge. Finally, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt is calling for the resignation of four McCurtain County officials after audio recordings of them making racist comments were released.
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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
- Government Gets the Law Wrong as it Finally Makes the Case Why it is Rejecting the Bill C-11 User Content Regulation Fix - Michael Geist (~9 shares)
- Mike Lindell firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge - The Washington Post (~5 shares)
- Oklahoma gov calls on officials to resign after 'hanging' and racist remarks on tape | AP News (~5 shares)
- Exxon’s Unethical Supreme Court Play - The American Prospect (~4 shares)
- The Elon Musk Mind Virus: Spreading Easily Debunked Misinformation That Confirms His Own Biases | Techdirt (~4 shares)
- CURIA - Documents (~4 shares)
- Google to deploy generative AI to create sophisticated ad campaigns (~4 shares)
- Weds 4/19 - Fox News Settles, FDIC Reimbursement, More Litigation Funding Problems, Law Partner Tax Problems and Whistleblowers at SCOTUS (~4 shares)
- Oakland A's agree to purchase land near Las Vegas Strip (~3 shares)
- Rules | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (~3 shares)
- Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats | The New Yorker (~3 shares)
- DeKalb County releases autopsy in 'Cop City' protester Manuel Teran's death - ABC News (~3 shares)
- Is Dianne Feinstein mentally unfit to serve? Top senators, colleagues cite recent interactions (~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
- Abortion Distortions by Caroline Mala Corbin
- I Dissent: The Federal Circuit's 'Great Dissenter,' Her Influence on the Patent Dialogue, and Why It Matters by Daryl Lim
- The Justice from Monsanto: The Environmental Life and Law of Clarence Thomas by Scott W. Stern
- Reexamining Relative Bar Performance as a Function of Non-Linearity, Heteroscedasticity, and a New Independent Variable 52 N.M. L. Rev. 1119 2022 by Rory D. Bahadur, Dr. Kevin Ruth, Katie Tolliver Jones
- Stanford Interdisciplinary Working Group on Interoperability: Report and Preliminary Recommendations by Mark A. Lemley, Eric E. Johnson, M. Christopher Riley
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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