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
- Amazon’s palm-scanning service now lets you sign up from your phone - The Verge (~7 shares)
- Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. The crypto industry isn’t any better for it | Sam Bankman-Fried | The Guardian (~5 shares)
- Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is - LPE Project (~4 shares)
- 25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried (~3 shares)
- Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker | WIRED (~3 shares)
- How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream? | Damon Krukowski | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Wealth of the 1% hits a record $44 trillion (~2 shares)
- San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island | 25 January 2020 From… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- How Silicon Valley’s ‘Oppenheimer’ found lucrative trade in AI weapons (~2 shares)
- Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021 (~2 shares)
- How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality for the 737 Max - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Trump’s Social Media Company Opens New Avenue for Conflicts of Interest - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- OMB Publishes Revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity | OMB | The White House (~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
- Ignorance is Strength: Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Politics, and the English Language by Leo E. Strine, Jr.
- Regulating Bank Reputation Risk by Julie Andersen Hill
- Market Myopia's Climate Bubble by Madison Condon
- The Rise and Fall of the Roman Numeral by Tessa Dysart
- Rights Mediation: Contracts Law and the First Amendment by D. A. Jeremy Telman
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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