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 and this site 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); and (2) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
Top Posts
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- Filing A Badly Drafted, Mistargeted, Bullshit SLAPP Suit Is No Way To Convince Women You’re Not An Asshole | Techdirt (~3 shares)
- Domestic humanoid backed by OpenAI raises $100M (~3 shares)
- California Universities Partner with Wiley on Landmark Open Access Agreement - Office of Scholarly Communication (~3 shares)
- DOJ to seek death penalty in Buffalo shooting case despite Biden 2020 pledge (~3 shares)
- The Only Podcast on OpenAI You'll Ever Need* by @Andrew Leahey · Zencastr (~2 shares)
- US oil lobby launches eight-figure ad blitz amid record fossil fuel extraction | Oil and gas companies | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Who Are the Houthis and Why Is the U.S. Attacking Them? - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Deadly brown snake bites Queensland woman in her bed while another serpent seen in fridge ice dispenser | Queensland | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Dutch Caribbean islanders sue Netherlands over climate change | Climate crisis | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- ‘We had a third of the Earth to ourselves’: the band that’s spent four years touring the world by sea | Music | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- COVID levels are up to 19 times higher than reported, WHO says as it warns of the potential dangers of repeat reinfection: ‘We don’t know everything about this virus’ | Fortune Well (~2 shares)
- Ebay fined $3m after workers harassed couple and sent spiders to their home | eBay | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Gjovik v. Apple Inc., 3:23-cv-04597 – CourtListener.com (~2 shares)
- Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after facing blowback from angry election deniers | CNN Politics (~2 shares)
¹ Yesterday includes yesterday plus anytime today before this page was published. See footer.
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
- Data Extra Commercium by Václav Janeček, Gianclaudio Malgieri
- What Do Stockholders Own? The Rise of the Trading Price Paradigm in Corporate Law by Charles Korsmo, Minor Myers
- Talkin’ ‘Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain by Katherine Lee, A. Feder Cooper, James Grimmelmann
- 303 Creative as Harbinger by Russ Willis
- Fairness and Fair Use in Generative AI by Matthew Sag
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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