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 †
Good day, everyone! This is Max with a quick preview of today’s top stories. First, court documents have revealed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted millions of dollars in luxury vacations, rent-free housing, and tuition payments from friends. Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse in Carroll Case and Awards Her $5 Million. And finally, Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto report explores the potential for a malicious AI enslaving humanity. Keep it here for the latest news. 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
- Clarence Thomas tuition: Why the latest revelation is the most insulting of all. (~12 shares)
- Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse in Carroll Case and Awards Her $5 Million: Live - The New York Times (~5 shares)
- Andreessen Horowitz's State of Crypto report: Narrative over numbers (~5 shares)
- Elon Musk Buys into Far-Right Smears of Those Pursuing Election Integrity on a Bipartisan Basis - Election Law Blog (~5 shares)
- People are arguing in court that real images are deepfakes : NPR (~4 shares)
- Canada extends copyright protection another 20 years to meet new trade obligation - The Globe and Mail (~4 shares)
- Tribute from Rick Kogan in the Chicago Tribune (~4 shares)
- Rep. George Santos charged by Justice Department in federal probe | CNN Politics (~4 shares)
- No clarity from Clarence: More entanglements between Crow and Thomas raise questions – New York Daily News (~3 shares)
- Meta has team working to block news on Facebook, Instagram from Canadian users (~3 shares)
- Catering to Tax Evaders Is a Poor Prescription for Bank Health (~3 shares)
- Boomy’s AI-generated tracks start landing back on Spotify amid growing battle against artificial streaming - Music Business Worldwide (~3 shares)
- 2023 ACS National Convention | ACS (~3 shares)
- preponderance of the evidence | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (~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
- Global Data Privacy Laws 2023: 162 National Laws and 20 Bills by Graham Greenleaf
- Global Data Privacy Laws: EU Leads US and the Rest of the World in Enforcement by Penalties by Graham Greenleaf
- Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation by Eduardo Schnadower Mustri, Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti
- New Data Architectures in Brazil, China, and India: From Copycats to Innovators, towards a post-Western Model of Data Governance by Luca Belli
- The Partition of Ireland and the 1922 Constitution by C. R. G. Murray
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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