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
- https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/pdfs/People-v-Donald-Trump-Pre-Trial-Publicity-Decision-4-12-24.pdf (~3 shares)
- "Infrastructures of Control": Q&A with the Geographers Behind University of Arizona's Border Surveillance Photo Exhibition | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Some Trump stock investors have already lost half their money | CNN Business (~3 shares)
- Taylor Swift’s music returns to TikTok even as label fights over artist compensation | Taylor Swift | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Chula Vista Loses on Police Drone Video in Landmark State High Court Decision - Times of San Diego (~2 shares)
- The Conversation U.S. weekly news quiz (~2 shares)
- Nick D - Nell Minow is a Badass & We Need Security - Radio Misfits Podcast Network (~2 shares)
- Top environmental groups say some of Labor’s new laws could take conservation backwards | Australia news | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- EPA has limited six ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water – but there are 15,000 | PFAS | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Waltine Nauta 2022 Interview Transcript Unsealed | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- U.S. issues travel warning for Israel with Iran attack believed to be imminent and fear Gaza war could spread - CBS News (~2 shares)
- Episode 207: Let’s Talk about Climate Resilience | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (~2 shares)
- 'Reacher' Star Alan Ritchson on Faith, Stardom and Mental Health (~2 shares)
- What eight centuries of data tell us about interest rates (~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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