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
- The Perennial Problem of Demagogues - Teri Kanefield (~5 shares)
- Hackers got nearly 7 million people’s data from 23andMe. The firm blamed users in ‘very dumb’ move | Hacking | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Chemical Found In Cheerios, Quaker Oats May Cause Fertility Issues, Study Suggests: What To Know About Chlormequat (~3 shares)
- McMaster researchers release review on COVID-19 in schools, daycares | CTV News (~3 shares)
- Traditional owners claim Queensland government breaching human rights over potential Adani contamination - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Hip Hip Hooray For Hipster Antitrust | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- Margie's Candies | 26 September 2015. Chicago, IL. No emulsi… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- When did a rejection of an already accepted article become a thing? A brief history of “Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate students’ intelligence is merely average” with Frontiers in Psychology – Bob Uttl (~2 shares)
- Just Because Mickey Mouse Is In The Public Domain, It Doesn’t Mean The Battle To Prevent Copyright Term Extensions Is Over | Techdirt (~2 shares)
- SF police ballot measure is no quick fix for crime, opponents say (~2 shares)
- Let's not do this again, please - by Brian Merchant (~2 shares)
- LA ‘glass church’ designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son shuts amid landslide fears | Los Angeles | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Cappy Ishihara (@cappy) | Fyra Labs Misskey (~2 shares)
- Letitia James: the New York state attorney general who brought down the Trump Organization | New York | 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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