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.
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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Good day, folks. This is Max with a roundup of today's news. First, former President Donald Trump is reportedly facing a potential indictment from the Department of Justice for allegedly hoarding classified documents and obstructing an investigation. Meanwhile, the founder of the far-right militant group Oath Keepers has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his involvement in the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Finally, the audio of an interview with Douglas Adams, the creator of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is now available to the public through the Internet Archive.
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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
- Trump’s Lawyers Warn Him: Get Ready to Be Indicted by the Feds – Rolling Stone (~4 shares)
- Oath Keepers founder gets 18 years in prison, longest Jan. 6 sentence yet | Reuters (~4 shares)
- Aram Sinnreich interviews Douglas Adams : Aram Sinnreich : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (~4 shares)
- A Florida School Has Banned the Poem Read at Biden’s Inauguration | The New Republic (~4 shares)
- Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control (~4 shares)
- Can We Trust this Supreme Court with the Constitution? with Elie Mystal - Legal Talk Network (~3 shares)
- October 3: Roundtable on future strategies in anticounterfeiting and antipiracy (~3 shares)
- Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse (~3 shares)
- Uvalde – One Year Later – Houston Public Media (~3 shares)
- Thurs 5/25 - TD Bank Shareholder Suit, Oath Keeper Sentenced, ADA Circuit Split (?) and a New Bar Exam (~3 shares)
- Litigation & Investigations (~2 shares)
- Mediations & Arbitrations (~2 shares)
- US7530706B2 - LED lighting apparatus with fast changing focus - Google Patents (~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
- 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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