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 †
First, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. filed a complaint in North Florida to protect their civil rights. Then, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking for a new Public Interest Technology Director. Finally, Madison Square Garden's tax exemption is raising questions about fairness and job creation. All of this and more, coming up next. So stay tuned! 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
- Lawstodon.org (~19 shares)
- Heat on Fox: DOJ’s Jack Smith pursues tapes about Jan. 6 (~5 shares)
- Lawstodon | Find Lawyers and the Legal Community on Mastodon | #LawFedi #Lawstodon (~5 shares)
- Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. v. DESANTIS, 4:23-cv-00163 – CourtListener.com (~5 shares)
- Public Interest Technology Director | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~5 shares)
- Madison Square Garden’s Tax Exemption Is a Disservice to NYC (~4 shares)
- Complaint – #1 in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. v. DESANTIS (N.D. Fla., 4:23-cv-00163) – CourtListener.com (~4 shares)
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: using competitor's images in comparative advertising is fair use even when appearance isn't being compared (~4 shares)
- Desney v DeSantis Complaint (~4 shares)
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: in a Lanham Act (false advertising) case, presumptions cannot substitute for Article III injury (~4 shares)
- Students Participate in Legal Advocacy during Spring Break (~3 shares)
- Democracy Alerts - Florida Amendment Would Pave the Way for DeSantis Presidential Run - Democracy Docket (~3 shares)
- The Real Reason Bosses Hate Work From Home, Love Employees in the Office (~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
- Public Health Product Hops by Michael S. Sinha
- Costly Designs by Sarah Burstein
- Acknowledgements as a Window into Legal Academia by W. Nicholson Price II, Jonathan Tietz
- Hierarchy, Race, and Gender in Legal Scholarly Networks by Keerthana Nunna, W. Nicholson Price II, Jonathan Tietz
- Outsourcing Human Rights Obligations and Concealing Human Rights Deficits: The Example of Monetizing User-Generated Content Under the CDSM Directive and the Digital Services Act by Martin Senftleben, João Pedro Quintais, Arlette Meiring
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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