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
- Parking signs and possible futures for LLMs in government - Ad Hoc (~6 shares)
- Idaho failed in its attempted execution, Texas killed a man (~4 shares)
- SCOTUS takes up Trump immunity claim, hears bump stock rule challenge (~4 shares)
- I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to understand Trump’s base − they believe, more than ever, he is a savior (~3 shares)
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Collective Foundation Dissolving Effective 12/31/2024 (~3 shares)
- New College of Florida is sanctioned by national faculty group (~3 shares)
- bird.makeup - User (~3 shares)
- Idaho student killings: Why genetic genealogy may be important to Bryan Kohberger’s case | CNN (~3 shares)
- Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (~2 shares)
- Alito Wants To Weigh YouTube, And The Rest Of SCOTUS Wants To Make An Easy Case Hard | Techdirt (~2 shares)
- Judge Aileen Cannon: Champion of the Public’s Right of Access to Court Documents—Containing Names of Witnesses Against Trump | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle, Part 1: "There are no Yankees here!" - Teri Kanefield (~2 shares)
- Opinion: San Franciscans know a lot about tech. That's why they should vote No on E - 48 hills (~2 shares)
- Eastern Edge of Pacific Ocean | 3 August 2014. Pescadero, 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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