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
- Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like | TIME (~4 shares)
- SCOTUS to Fifth Circuit: Do whatever you want (~4 shares)
- The Secret Life of Data (~3 shares)
- Challenges in the Online Child Safety Ecosystem | Lawfare (~3 shares)
- Dutch city pilots radical debt cancellation scheme for poor families | Netherlands | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Billions of cicadas are about to emerge from underground in a rare double-brood convergence (~3 shares)
- Universities Face an Urgent Question: What Makes a Protest Antisemitic? - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope - Center for Progressive Reform (~2 shares)
- BREAKING: U.S. House Passes Sen. Ossoff’s Bipartisan Bill to Protect Children from Online Sexual Exploitation, Sending it to President’s Desk - U.S. Senator for Georgia Jon Ossoff (~2 shares)
- About Spot (~2 shares)
- Podcast Episode: Right to Repair Catches the Car | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- Lawfare Live: Trump's Trials and Tribulations, May 1 | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- 'Jeffrey Clark betrayed his oath': Officials call to disbar (~2 shares)
- US Capitol, Washington, DC | 2 June 2021 The Western face of… | Flickr (~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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