In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Wednesday April 24, 2024

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

  1. FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes | Federal Trade Commission (~5 shares)
  2. How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) - The New York Times (~4 shares)
  3. Trump's Nuclear Documents Were Mixed with Post-Presidential Press Clippings - emptywheel (~4 shares)
  4. View of The Pivotal Role of Prison Libraries as an Information Resource for Prisoner Rehabilitation (~4 shares)
  5. FTC bans contracts that keep workers from jumping to rival employers - The Washington Post (~4 shares)
  6. Federal Judge Strikes Down North Carolina Law Criminalizing Felony Voting - Democracy Docket (~4 shares)
  7. Back in the day, being woke meant being smart (~3 shares)
  8. "How web bloat impacts users with slow devices" (~3 shares)
  9. Climate protesters arrested for blocking Boston-area airport (~3 shares)
  10. SCOTUS, but not Roberts, struggles with whether cities can criminalize homelessness (~3 shares)
  11. Oklahoma AG tells SCOTUS that state court decision allowing Glossip's execution cannot stand (~3 shares)
  12. How web bloat impacts users with slow devices (~3 shares)
  13. How the Starbucks case at the Supreme Court could affect unions everywhere : NPR (~2 shares)
  14. Tell Congress: Access To Laws Should Be Fully Open | EFF Action Center (~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

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.

Hastags

Mastodon is big on hashtags. Here's what folks I follow were using yesterday:

Hastags

Mastodon is big on hashtags. Here's what folks I follow were using yesterday:

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? ;)

Plot of yesterday's posts

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