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
- Survey on the Effects of Digital Content Locks and TPMs on Education and Research – Knowledge Rights 21 (~7 shares)
- Troy Hunt: How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data (~7 shares)
- Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business ‘complete immunity for bad acts’ | US news | The Guardian (~6 shares)
- FAQ: Trump, the 14th Amendment, and Thursday’s SCOTUS arguments (~5 shares)
- Stalkerware apps PhoneSpector and Highster appear shut down after NY settlement | TechCrunch (~5 shares)
- HLF website Statutes Justice Firearms preprint .pdf - Google Drive (~4 shares)
- Legal News for 2/5 - Jazzy Tattoos, IRS New Initiatives and Trump Takes His Act to the Supreme Court (~4 shares)
- Listen to Oral Arguments - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (~3 shares)
- Australian academic Yang Hengjun given suspended death sentence by Chinese court | China | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Akkoma (~3 shares)
- ‘It’s all a bit marginal’: claims of Brexit trade perks don’t add up, say firms | Brexit | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements - PubMed (~3 shares)
- Addressing Computer-Generated Child Sex Abuse Imagery: Legal Framework and Policy Implications | Lawfare (~3 shares)
- State-of-the-art telescope in Chile to offer best view yet of universe | Astronomy | The Guardian (~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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