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
- Zuckerman v. Meta Platforms, Inc. | Knight First Amendment Institute (~8 shares)
- We can have a different web (~8 shares)
- A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed | WIRED (~7 shares)
- A Civil War-era abortion ban will soon control lives in Arizona — for now (~6 shares)
- Black Voters Appeal Decision Blocking New Louisiana Map to US Supreme Court - Democracy Docket (~5 shares)
- Arizona repealed its Civil War-era abortion ban. Now what? (~4 shares)
- Do you love to read but the world wide web has turned your brain into fluff? First Dog on the Moon is here to help | First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (~3 shares)
- Florida Bills Woman $127,000 After She Spent Only 10 Months Behind Bars (~3 shares)
- National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT (~3 shares)
- OECD Legal Instruments (~3 shares)
- Why the U.S. Intelligence Community Needs an OSINT Agency | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- SCOTUS to Fifth Circuit: Do whatever you want (~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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