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Digest for Saturday May 27, 2023

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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript ^†

Welcome back. Today, we’re looking at the Supreme Court’s assault on clean water regulations; a discussion on international ESG considerations; and Twitter's demand for researchers to pay $42,000 a month for data access. Get ready for all the details, coming right up!First, from www.lawdork.com: The reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, which drastically limits the federal government's ability to protect water from pollution by narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act. Justice Sam Alito, with the support of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett, upended 45 years of precedent and practice regarding the Clean Water Act. Justices Kavanaugh, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson all wrote separate opinions arguing that the majority opinion was "erroneous" and would result in decreased water quality, and Kagan went on to say that the decision was "not how the Constitution thinks our Government should work".

Next, from services.nycbar.org: International Comparative ESG Considerations
This Monday, June 5th, the New York City Bar Association is hosting a free webinar to discuss the current state of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) regulation in the US, EU, and Asia. The panel will discuss the most salient ESG issues in each jurisdiction, as well as the risks to issuers and investors and potential changes that could be made. The webinar is open to members free of charge and non-members for $15.

Finally, from inews.co.uk: Twitter is making researchers delete data it gave them unless they pay $42,000
Twitter recently sparked controversy after it demanded academic researchers pay $42,000 a month for data access, or delete all the data they had stored. This policy shift has been met with backlash from the academic community, who view it as the ‘big data equivalent of book burning’ and a threat to the transparency of the platform. The data access has been used to track conversations on Twitter, examine the spread of disinformation and misinformation, and explore the rise of extremism. With this policy change, free tools developed with the decahose data such as Hoaxy and Botometer have already stopped or are soon to stop working. Elon Musk's words that Twitter serves as the 'public town square' ring hollow in light of this policy change.

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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

1. The reactionary SCOTUS majority's assault on clean water (~7 shares)
2. We haven’t even gotten climate change disclosure rules yet (~4 shares)
3. International Comparative ESG Considerations (~4 shares)
4. Twitter is making researchers delete data it gave them unless they pay $42,000 (~4 shares)
5. Issue 28 – Force majeure - Molly White (~3 shares)
6. Design Law — Does this breast pump infringe this design patent?... (~3 shares)
7. Curious About What the Bar Exam Will Look like in 2026? (~2 shares)
8. How I Won $5 Million From the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy - POLITICO (~2 shares)
9. Enter the dragon: China and global academic publishing (~2 shares)
10. Putting Koroks on a Spit by @Andrew Leahey · Zencastr (~2 shares)
11. Career Search (~2 shares)
12. Upstream 2023 | A celebration of open source (~2 shares)
13. Lawyers by Race & Ethnicity (~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.