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
- Louisiana moves to make abortion pills ‘controlled dangerous substances’ - The Washington Post (~4 shares)
- Trump appointee blasts Fifth Circuit over "landmines" in recent decisions (~3 shares)
- Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog (~3 shares)
- New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight malignant brain tumor - UF Health (~3 shares)
- A Post I Never Thought I Would Need to Write: Jewish Students Have the Right to Feel Safe on Campus - Michael Geist (~2 shares)
- Paying caregivers more could boost Nebraska’s economy − new research (~2 shares)
- Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Legal News for Mon 5/13 - Cohen's Testimony Against Trump, Fifth Circuit Review of Nasdaq DEI Rules, Menendez Corruption Trial and TX Judge Pauses CFPB Late Fee Cap (~2 shares)
- Software Liability and Insurance | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- Stormy Daniels Steps Down | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability? | Techdirt (~2 shares)
- T. rex is Fierce, T. rex is Charismatic, T. rex is Litigious: Disruptive Objects in Affective Desirescapes | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core (~2 shares)
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: court remands NYC's false advertising case against oil companies to state court (~2 shares)
- Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh | 15 June 2023 The Cathedr… | 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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