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
- Appeals court rules that Title IX protects trans student in challenge to WV sports ban (~4 shares)
- The Fifth Circuit did the absolute least it should do this week — and that's news (~4 shares)
- WaPo Gives Bill Barr Platform to Attack Joe Biden without Mentioning Barr's Role in Framing Biden - emptywheel (~4 shares)
- Tell the U.S. Senate: STOP RISAA, the FISA Mass Surveillance Expansion | EFF Action Center (~3 shares)
- Heart rate zones aren’t a perfect measure of exercise intensity, but regularly getting your heart pumping is still important for fitness (~3 shares)
- Miscalculation Led to Escalation in Clash Between Israel and Iran - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- Tobacco & Vapes Bill Second Reading - GOV.UK (~2 shares)
- The quiet collapse of the county court system (~2 shares)
- Artificial intelligence can predict political beliefs from expressionless faces (~2 shares)
- UK MPs vote for smoking ban for those born after 2009 (~2 shares)
- Queensland's greenhouse emission 2050 net zero target to be enshrined in law - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Hallway in West Village Walk-Up | 21 March 2014. West Villag… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- OSWALD: TOBACCO AND VAPES BILL STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION MORE ACTION NEEDED ON DISPOSABLE VAPES (~2 shares)
- Trump hush-money trial: Full jury sworn in after two were excused - BBC News (~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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