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
- SCOTUS approach to Trump's immunity claim likely to delay D.C. case further (~4 shares)
- Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear | Donald Trump | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Vol 49 Nr 1 (2024) | Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten (~3 shares)
- Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths - The Verge (~3 shares)
- Podcast Episode: Right to Repair Catches the Car | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Stories Are Weapons | Annalee Newitz | W. W. Norton & Company (~3 shares)
- Australia’s new national cancer plan is brimming with good ideas – here are my top three picks | Ranjana Srivastava | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- I’ve been studying congressional emails to constituents for 15 years − and found these 4 trends after scanning 185,222 of them (~2 shares)
- Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network | TechCrunch (~2 shares)
- Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada | Canada | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Upsolve Launches Tool To Help Pro Se Bankruptcy Filers Get Relief from Student Loans | LawSites (~2 shares)
- Supreme Court immunity arguments: The court just showed how and why it will let Donald Trump get away with it. (~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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