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 †
Good day, this is Max with today's top stories! First up, we have a new article from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, exploring transgender law and politics. Then, we have a story from The Guardian about Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran being waved away from searching Donald Trump's office for classified documents. Finally, NOLA dot com has a story about the rise of unregulated home insurance companies in Louisiana. Stay tuned.
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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
- Catharine A. MacKinnon, "Exploring Transgender Law and Politics" - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (~4 shares)
- Trump lawyer said to have been waved off searching office for secret records | Donald Trump | The Guardian (~4 shares)
- Louisiana homeowners embrace less regulated insurers | Business News | nola.com (~4 shares)
- Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook (~4 shares)
- First Branch Forecast for May 30, 2023: The debt limit agreeement - First Branch Forecast (~4 shares)
- How Geena Davis Continues to Tackle Gender Bias in Hollywood - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- A Deeper Look At The Surgeon General’s Report On Kids & Social Media: It’s Not What You Heard | Techdirt (~3 shares)
- If affirmative action in college admissions ends, here’s who will fill those spots - The Boston Globe (~3 shares)
- A Regressive Supreme Court Turns Activist | Brennan Center for Justice (~3 shares)
- IRS Direct File Program Must Ensure Taxpayer Data Stays Secure (~3 shares)
- Alabama digital road sign hacked to display white supremacist messages | Alabama | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- How 236,471 words of amici briefing gave us the 565 word Gonzalez decision (~3 shares)
- Guest Post: We need to talk about the NDIL's Schedule-A cases (~3 shares)
- 2023 ISHTIP 14th ANNUAL WORKSHOP | ISHTIP (~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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