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
- San Francisco: Vote No on Proposition E to Stop Police from Testing Dangerous Surveillance Technology on You | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~4 shares)
- SCOTUS conservatives allowed Alabama to suffocate Kenneth Smith to death (~4 shares)
- The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more | Ars Technica (~3 shares)
- Governor Abbott signals potential defiance of Supreme Court’s border ruling – Houston Public Media (~2 shares)
- Three Persimmons | 240mm/5.6 APO-Symmar-S; BetterLight Super… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Alabama wants to suffocate a man to death. No court has stopped them yet. (~2 shares)
- Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution – here’s how to clean your clothes more sustainably (~2 shares)
- The Etsy Sellers Getting Sued for Using a Smiley Face (~2 shares)
- Girl Scout Order Card | Girl Scouts (~2 shares)
- Five years after landmark criminal justice reform, prison racial disparities widen in Mass. | GBH (~2 shares)
- ‘Strife in the courtroom’ − a former federal judge discusses Trump’s second trial for defaming E. Jean Carroll (~2 shares)
- N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Necromancers of the Public Domain: BROADWAY RACKETEERS Tickets, Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite (~2 shares)
- Save your Twitter Account | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~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
- The Value of Open Source Software by Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou
- First Amendment Neglect in Supreme Court Intellectual Property Cases by Mark A. Lemley, Rebecca Tushnet
- Moral Jugdments and Knowledge about Felony Murder in Colorado: An Empirical Study by Ian P. Farrell
- Brief of Amicus Curiae Professor Sean J. Griffith in Support of Intervenor, National Association of Manufacturers, in National Center for Public Policy Research v SEC, No. 23-60230 (Fifth Cir., Oct. 5, 2023) by Sean J. Griffith
- Free the Market: How We Can Save Capitalism from the Capitalists by Mark A. Lemley
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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