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.
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 †
Welcome to today's top news headlines! Law Dork celebrates 20 years of Chris Geidner's inspiring blog, which has covered the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," marriage equality and more. Meanwhile, the New York Times dives into the issue of employment exploitation, even among those with good jobs. And, Bloomberg Tax examines the IRS funding cut, and what it means for tax morale. It's all coming up next.
~ show summaries ~
† 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
- Twenty years of Law Dork - Law Dork with Chris Geidner (~5 shares)
- Opinion | Even People With Good Jobs Get Exploited - The New York Times (~5 shares)
- Week in Insights: Why IRS Funding Matters for Tax Morale (~5 shares)
- Restaurant Chain Franchises Face Scrutiny From the FTC - The New York Times (~4 shares)
- How Dangerous is Lightning? (~3 shares)
- Conference Diversity Distribution Calculator (~3 shares)
- Christina S. Ho — Normalizing an American Right to Health — at Conn Ave | Politics and Prose Bookstore (~2 shares)
- Uppfinning – Wikipedia (~2 shares)
- Companies ‘greenhushing’ to avoid scrutiny of climate goals, Asic says | Business | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Evidence of Climate Harms Given On Country | Phi Finney McDonald (~2 shares)
- Book Bans Attack the LGBTQ+ Community, Open Access Is Part of Our Defense · punctum books (~2 shares)
- Just a moment... (~2 shares)
- Followgraph for Mastodon (~2 shares)
- EUROPEAN COURTS: Hoe lees je EU-wetgeving? (~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
- Preliminary Injunctive Relief in Patent Cases: Repairing Irreparable Harm by John C. Jarosz, Jorge L. Contreras, Robert L. Vigil
- Georgia State Legal Technology Competency Model: A Framework for Examining and Evaluating What It Means to Be a Technologically Competent Lawyer by Patrick Parsons, Michelle Hook Dewey, Kristina L. Niedringhaus
- How Did the COVID Pandemic Response Harm Society? A Global Evaluation and State of Knowledge Review (2020-21) by Kevin Bardosh
- Corporate Consolidation of Rental Housing & the Case for National Rent Stabilization by Brandon M. Weiss
- Codes of Conduct in the Digital Services Act: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges by Rachel Griffin, Carl Vander Maelen
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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