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
- Building ActivityPub: Day 0 (~11 shares)
- When Trump Attacks Our Elections, We Will Have No Excuse - Democracy Docket (~4 shares)
- Government wants a sweeping social media inquiry - Software - iTnews (~3 shares)
- Immigrants do work that might not otherwise get done – bolstering the US economy (~3 shares)
- Civil asset forfeiture is on notice — but came out unscathed at SCOTUS for now (~2 shares)
- I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza (~2 shares)
- The Hunt for Gollum: Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis to work on new Lord of the Rings film | Movies | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Raging solar storm could turn Northern Lights into a B.C.-wide show - Today in BC (~2 shares)
- Legal News for Fri 5/10 - Xtandi Cost Cut, Lawsuit Against Iowa Immigration Law, Musk Potential SEC Testimony, ABA Shift on Bar Exam Alts and FERC's New Rules (~2 shares)
- A Proclamation on Mother's Day, 2024 | The White House (~2 shares)
- A Proclamation on National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week, 2024 | The White House (~2 shares)
- Free Book on the Best Movie Mothers! – Movie Mom (~2 shares)
- How Stop Killing Games Ups the Ante in the Fight for Video Game Preservation - IGN (~2 shares)
- D.C. Circuit Upholds Bannon Conviction | Lawfare (~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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