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
- Signal >> Blog >> Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames (~9 shares)
- Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead after a fight | The Independent (~9 shares)
- Facial recognition service says it is for suspicious lovers, not stalking | Biometric Update (~6 shares)
- Idaho asks SCOTUS to let it enforce anti-trans ban on minors' medical care during appeal (~4 shares)
- The Terraformers (~4 shares)
- Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI | Ars Technica (~4 shares)
- The AI community needs to take copyright lawsuits seriously (~4 shares)
- Robert Hur Snooped Through Joe Biden's Diaries after White House Warned It Would Be Unprecedented - emptywheel (~3 shares)
- Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires (~3 shares)
- TL;DR LLM: Blurb a webpage for social media (~3 shares)
- NSO Group / Q Cyber Technologies: Over One Hundred New Abuse Cases - The Citizen Lab (~3 shares)
- How tech companies would be affected by the Kids Online Safety Act : NPR (~2 shares)
- At Signal, A Revolution in Messaging | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- Las Vegas Strip (daylight), Paradise, NV, 2023 | 6 July 2023… | 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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