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
- Lesley Wolf Vindicated by Alexander Smirnov Indictment - emptywheel (~4 shares)
- bird.makeup - User (~4 shares)
- Justices question Texas and Florida social media company laws (~4 shares)
- Stupid Power - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work (~4 shares)
- RSS Parrot (~3 shares)
- Crash Course U.S. Government & Politics (~3 shares)
- EFF Statement on Nevada's Attack on End-to-End Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Should the USPTO ask AI for help with Pop Culture References?: How LLMs could help screen for bad-faith trademark applications (~2 shares)
- United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC | 15 August 2021 Th… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Falsely advertising "ghost guns" as legal in NY is actionable (~2 shares)
- Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Bill 22-1 (2024), Government Bill – New Zealand Legislation (~2 shares)
- Wendy’s Wants to Start Uber-like Surge Pricing in 2025 (~2 shares)
- Alabama woman jailed for exposing fetus to drugs wasn’t even pregnant. She just settled her suit. - al.com (~2 shares)
- Daily progress for Tuesday, 27 February 2024 - New Zealand Parliament (~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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