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
- Why Some Prefer Oligarchy and (🎶 What's Russia got to do, got to do with it? 🎶) - Teri Kanefield (~6 shares)
- EFF Opposes California Initiative That Would Cause Mass Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~5 shares)
- Clarence Thomas Hires Clerk Accused of Writing "I HATE BLACK PEOPLE" | Vanity Fair (~5 shares)
- Black History Through Archival Images - Flickr Foundation (~4 shares)
- Donald Trump's Debt: Live Counter (~3 shares)
- To Fix U.S. Education, Free Our Teachers (~3 shares)
- This week, we faced all that the Dobbs justices unleashed (~3 shares)
- Pentagon explores military uses of emerging AI technologies - The Washington Post (~3 shares)
- Spot the secret Swiftie: there may be more of them than you think | Fiona Katauskas | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Lawyers Use ChatGPT to Add Up Fees, Judge Faults Their Math (~2 shares)
- Maybe Your Lawyers Shouldn’t Tell Reporters You Did Not Engage In ‘Conspiracy To Or Complicity In Murder’ When No One Was Claiming Otherwise | Techdirt (~2 shares)
- Republicans and Democrats consider each other immoral – even when treated fairly and kindly by the opposition (~2 shares)
- Klopp seeks Carabao Cup win and says celebrations are ‘for us and nobody else’ | Liverpool | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Big Pharma Is Cheating Americans Out of Publicly Funded Drugs (~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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