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.
Top Posts
AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to today's top stories! In the world of politics, Fox News and Dominion have settled a defamation lawsuit, with Fox agreeing to pay a hefty $787.5 million. We'll also have a closer look at Berkeley Law and their commitment to social justice initiatives, as well as the ongoing controversy surrounding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Stay tuned for more! 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
- The Dominion-Fox Settlement and the "Thirst for Justice" - Teri Kanefield (~5 shares)
- The Macbeth Files: A Witches' Brew - Berkeley Law (~3 shares)
- Chief Justice John Roberts punts on request to investigate Clarence Thomas | CNN Politics (~2 shares)
- POGO Calls for DOJ to Investigate Clarence Thomas, Seek Civil Penalties (~2 shares)
- De-extinction: Bringing animal species back from the brink - CBS News (~2 shares)
- How Open Source Evidence was Upheld in a Human Rights Court - bellingcat (~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
- The Constitutional Imaginary and the ‘Metabolic’ Realities of European Integration by Peter L. Lindseth
- A New Telecommunications Act: Prioritizing Consumer Protection and Equality by Olivier Sylvain
- Racial Bias, Accomplice Liability, and the Felony Murder Rule: A National Empirical Study by G. Ben Cohen, Justin D. Levinson, Koichi Hioki
- The United Nations Charter, International Human Rights, and the Hollowness of Sovereignty Claims by David Kaye
- Zeroing in on Net-Zero: From Soft Law to Hard Law in Corporate Climate Pledges by Daniel C. Esty, Nathan de Arriba-Sellier
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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