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
- bird.makeup - User (~3 shares)
- Subscriber Agreement | Hulu (~3 shares)
- 50 Days of LIT Prompts | Sadly Not, Havoc Dinosaur (~3 shares)
- Dozens of Rogue California Police Agencies Still Sharing Driver Locations with Anti-Abortion States | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Insurance industry slammed by consumer groups at parliamentary inquiry into 2022 flood response - ABC News (~3 shares)
- Voters don’t always have final say – state legislatures and governors are increasingly undermining ballot measures that win (~3 shares)
- Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media ‹ Literary Hub (~3 shares)
- Norway has made a vital climate leap. This is how Britain can do the same | Tessa Khan | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal | The far right | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- ‘Please let me get what I want’: can artists stop politicians from using their songs? | US politics | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Universal Music Group threatens to pull song catalog from TikTok in furious open letter | Universal Music | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Court orders temporary halt to logging in Tasmanian forest ahead of swift parrot case | Tasmania | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Man Posted YouTube Video With Father’s Severed Head While Ranting About Joe Biden (~2 shares)
- Consumer rights: Calls to make ‘no refund’ claims illegal as retailers snub consumer law (~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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