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 †
Welcome to your daily news roundup with Max! Today, we have poet Amanda Gorman speaking out against a Florida school's decision to restrict access to her work, Elon Musk's efforts to bolster the right-wing media ecosystem, and Target pulling some of its Pride month merchandise due to backlash. We will be diving into these stories and more, so stick around!
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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
- Florida school restricts inauguration poem access: Amanda Gorman "gutted" (~10 shares)
- Elon Musk’s right-wing media venture scores another big win - The Washington Post (~10 shares)
- Subscribe to Law Dork with Chris Geidner (~6 shares)
- reSee.it #1738 (~5 shares)
- Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera (~5 shares)
- Common Cause Arizona: Dangerous Anti-Democracy Bill Vetoed by Governor Hobbs - Common Cause (~5 shares)
- Target becomes latest company to suffer backlash for LGBTQ+ support, pulls some Pride month clothing | AP News (~4 shares)
- GitHub - stanfordio/TeachingTrustSafety: Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium (~4 shares)
- The Rural Reconciliation Project (~4 shares)
- Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges (~4 shares)
- How Congress Fell for OpenAI and Sam Altman’s AI Magic Tricks (~4 shares)
- 5/24 - Withdrawn Federal Judge Nominee, Chief Justice Roberts Assures us he is Ethical, Simplifying Automatic Tax Extensions and Affirmative Action Targeted by SCOTUS (~3 shares)
- Citation differences across research funding and access modalities (~3 shares)
- I tried the AI novel-writing tool everyone hates, and it’s better than I expected - The Verge (~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
- How the Blockchain Undermined Digital Ownership by Aaron Perzanowski
- Superstar CEOS and Corporate Law by Assaf Hamdani, Kobi Kastiel
- ChatGPT and Intermediary Liability: Why Section 230 Does Not and Should Not Protect Generative Algorithms by Hasala Ariyaratne
- What 21st-Century Free Speech Law Means for Securities Regulation by Helen L. Norton
- Land Reform in the Fifth World by Jessica A. Shoemaker
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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