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
- How We Got to a Place Where Right Wingers Cheer Stealing Nuclear Documents - emptywheel (~6 shares)
- When Trump Attacks Our Elections, We Will Have No Excuse - Democracy Docket (~5 shares)
- Supreme Court rulings on guns, abortion, Constitution: How originalism ate the law. (~4 shares)
- Library Worker Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize - I Love Libraries (~4 shares)
- Generative Baseline Hell and the Regulation of Machine-Learning Foundation Models | Lawfare (~4 shares)
- Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again | Elizabeth Holmes | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet | Climate crisis | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT | Tom's Hardware (~3 shares)
- Come Work With Us—As Our New Associate Editor! | Lawfare (~3 shares)
- Artwork - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian (~2 shares)
- Note by Chris Geidner on Substack: "NEWS: The original challengers to Louisiana's redistricting plan, backed by NAACP Legal Defense Fund, went to the Supreme Court on Wednesday in the latest step in a multi-year fight to get two majority-Black congressional districts in the state. Although a shadow docket filing,…" (~2 shares)
- Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’ | Scams | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Ex-Spanish soccer federation chief Luis Rubiales to stand trial for unsolicited kiss of soccer player Jenni Hermoso - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Louisville police say little about powerful cell phone hacking tool (~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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