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
- Has Wired Given Up On Fact Checking? Publishes Facts-Optional Screed Against Section 230 That Gets Almost Everything Wrong | Techdirt (~7 shares)
- Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~7 shares)
- Special counsel urges SCOTUS to reject Trump's trial delay request (~5 shares)
- Elsevier parent reports 10% hike in profits for 2023 - Research Professional News (~5 shares)
- Senator Blumenthal Pretends To Fix KOSA; It’s A Lie | Techdirt (~4 shares)
- The European Union’s Digital Services Act: In Force from This Saturday, February 17, 2024, Including for U.S. Intermediaries (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog (~3 shares)
- JPMorgan and State Street quit climate group as BlackRock scales back (~2 shares)
- Guess Who's Coming to Jury Duty?: How the Failure to Collect Juror Demographic Data Contributes to Whitewashing the Jury Box - Berkeley Law (~2 shares)
- Intern with Lawfare! | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- Federal education department under fire as taxpayer money splurged on fine dining - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Eyes Everywhere? Decoding State Digital Surveillance in The Netherlands | Agenda | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (~2 shares)
- Lawmakers revise Kids Online Safety Act to address LGBTQ advocates' concerns | TechCrunch (~2 shares)
- A Hawk from a Handsaw: Have an AI "guess" the right answers for multiple choice and true or false questions (~2 shares)
- Skin Deep Antiques, Alviso, CA | 13 October 2013. Alviso, CA… | Flickr (~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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