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
- Trump Allies Have a Plan to Hurt Biden’s Chances: Elevate Outsider Candidates - The New York Times (~7 shares)
- Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books | AP News (~4 shares)
- Court Cases - Nevada Election Worker Protection Law Challenge - Democracy Docket (~3 shares)
- New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine — Killing for Profit | by Dr. Jason Fung | Medium (~3 shares)
- The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink - The Appeal (~3 shares)
- Access 2024 call for proposals is now open! – Access 2024 (~3 shares)
- House of the Temple | 26 October 2023, Washington, DC Techni… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- How a science fiction obsession led me to psychological war • Buttondown (~2 shares)
- Elon Musk Defies Brazil Order to Block X Accounts (~2 shares)
- Correcting Presidential Immunity's Original Sin | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- Matildas’ tactical tinkering pays off in tough win over Mexico | Matildas | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Motion Picture Association Lobbying Congress to Enact Anti-Piracy Law (~2 shares)
- How Supreme Court’s Grants Pass Homeless Case May Limit Prisoner Rights | The Marshall Project (~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
- Jukin’ the Stats: The Gaming of Law School Rankings and How to Stop It by Darren Bush, Jessica Peterson
- Australia’s Never-ending Privacy Reform Process by Graham Greenleaf
- Amicus Curiae Brief of 69 Professors of Law, Economics, Business, and Medicine in Support of Plaintiff by Michael A. Carrier
- The Illusion of Inclusion: The False Promise of the New Governance Project for Content Moderation by Brenda Dvoskin
- Will the Real Shareholder Primacy Please Stand Up? by Ann Lipton
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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