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 †
Greetings and welcome back to the latest news roundup! Today, we'll be discussing the Supreme Court's upcoming case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Mastodon's new onboarding experience, and the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web entering the public domain. 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
- Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo - SCOTUSblog (~11 shares)
- A new onboarding experience on Mastodon - Mastodon Blog (~9 shares)
- The World Wide Web became available to the broader public 30 years ago : NPR (~6 shares)
- University of Illinois JLTP | Home (~4 shares)
- State-run Disney governing board plans to countersue Disney (~4 shares)
- April's SCOTUS scandal-fest highlights out-of-touch conservatives (~4 shares)
- Lawstodon | Find Lawyers and the Legal Community on Mastodon | #LawFedi #Lawstodon (~4 shares)
- Mon 5/1 - Exit First Republic, Enter JPMorgan, Energizer and Walmart Battery Antitrust, DeSantis vs. Prosecutor, Alito Knows Leaker and Trump Wants Mistrial (~3 shares)
- To Restrict, or Not to Restrict, That Is the Quantum Question - Lawfare (~3 shares)
- Sheriff’s Department is investigating a memo alleging captain wouldn’t promote ‘angry Black’ sergeant - Los Angeles Times (~3 shares)
- Coronation: Public invited to swear allegiance to King Charles - BBC News (~3 shares)
- Erin Kissane (~3 shares)
- CTV QP: Should content creators be concerned? | CTV News (~3 shares)
- Muslim trustee from DuPage Township faces racist comments during public meeting – Chicago Tribune (~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
- Understanding accountability in algorithmic supply chains by Jennifer Cobbe, Michael Veale, Jatinder Singh
- Raising the Threshold for Trademark Infringement to Protect Free Expression by Christine Haight Farley, Lisa P. Ramsey
- Recent Developments in Patent Law 2023 by Mark A. Lemley, Erich Remiker
- The Criminalization of the American Emigrant by Laura Snyder
- Whole Designs by Sarah Burstein
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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