In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Tuesday May 7, 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. Federal judge rebukes Alabama AG's out-of-state abortion threat (~8 shares)
  2. The Australian Literary Heritage Project (~3 shares)
  3. Untapped : The Australian Literary Heritage Project - About Untapped | AustLit (~3 shares)
  4. 400 Rich People Pay $40K to Hear Trump Glorify Cop Assailants - emptywheel (~3 shares)
  5. Why the former Georgia Republican lieutenant governor is voting for Joe Biden (~3 shares)
  6. Entries related to artificial intelligence (~3 shares)
  7. Left Without a Congressional Map, Black Louisiana Voters Ask Supreme Court for Help - Democracy Docket (~2 shares)
  8. Hours After Aussie Gov’t Greenlights Online Age Verification Pilot, Breach Of Mandated Verification Database For Bars Is Revealed | Techdirt (~2 shares)
  9. The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review – how big tech altered the narrative | Philosophy books | The Guardian (~2 shares)
  10. Six months out: The courts in a second Trump administration (~2 shares)
  11. A B.C. First Nation’s 3-year effort to change a city’s name - Vancouver Island Free Daily (~2 shares)
  12. منتدى فلسطين للنشاط الرقمي 2024 (~2 shares)
  13. Open Letter Regarding the Events of May 4, 2024 - Google Docs (~2 shares)
  14. Rabbit Holed (~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

Search

Use Google's site search to look through prior digests.