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
- ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza (~7 shares)
- ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian (~5 shares)
- Yale Law School Champions Open Legal Scholarship with the Launch of Law Archive (~4 shares)
- The Virus of Mass Voter Challenges Threatens Democracy and Is Spreading Fast - Democracy Docket (~3 shares)
- Oklahoma, once planning a killing spree, readies its first execution of 2024 (~3 shares)
- 23-1457: SKULL SHAVER, LLC v. IDEAVILLAGE PRODUCTS CORP. [RULE 36 JUDGMENT], Nonprecedential - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (~2 shares)
- All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds | Rich lists | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- 50 Days of LIT Prompts | Sadly Not, Havoc Dinosaur (~2 shares)
- Health Law Distinguished Speaker Series (~2 shares)
- LIT Prompts (~2 shares)
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - Wikipedia (~2 shares)
- Code lines on the Union Pacific RR | 15 May 2010. Harvard, C… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Jack Smith to Aileen Cannon: Treating Non-Lawyer Tom Fitton's Theories as Law Will Lead to Mandamus - emptywheel (~2 shares)
- LIT Prompts – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) (~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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