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
- Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers - Democracy Docket (~6 shares)
- SCOTUS, but not Roberts, struggles with whether cities can criminalize homelessness (~6 shares)
- Marriage is not as effective an anti-poverty strategy as you’ve been led to believe (~4 shares)
- Trial Attention: Don't Let a Pecker Distract from More Important Stories - emptywheel (~3 shares)
- U.S. Senate and Biden Administration Shamefully Renew and Expand FISA Section 702, Ushering in a Two Year Expansion of Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- EFF, Human Rights Organizations Call for Urgent Action in Case of Alaa Abd El Fattah | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- The Tesla Board Still Doesn’t Understand the Job – ValueEdge Advisors (~3 shares)
- Miami Trapeze Artist Decries Use of Aerial Photos for Code Inspection | Miami New Times (~2 shares)
- Rising Floodwaters, Rising Risks: Navigating the Chemical Threat of Climate-Driven Disasters in Pennsylvania - Center for Progressive Reform (~2 shares)
- This Week in AI: When 'open source' isn't so open | TechCrunch (~2 shares)
- Five Observations on the TikTok Bill and the First Amendment | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- On Trump's immunity claim, the history, and its consequences (~2 shares)
- Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NYC | 19 October 2013. Cent… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Australian court orders Elon Musk’s X to hide Sydney church stabbing posts from users globally | Australia news | The Guardian (~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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