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
- We have a new treaty! Report on the conclusion of the WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge - The IPKat (~3 shares)
- Killer whales keep ramming and sinking boats. Scientists now may know why, report says - Hasan Jasim (~3 shares)
- Opinion | Trump’s Taste for Tyranny Finds a Target - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Elon Musk's X can be liable for hate speech published on platform in landmark QCAT ruling - ABC News (~2 shares)
- WIPO Member States Adopt Historic New Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (~2 shares)
- Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza - The Verge (~2 shares)
- EFF Urges Supreme Court to Reject Texas’ Speech-Chilling Age Verification Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- Justice Sotomayor Describes Frustration With Being a Liberal on the Supreme Court - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Derek Hines' Disappearing [Three Colors of] Ink - emptywheel (~2 shares)
- Successful city parks make diverse communities feel safe and welcome − this Minnesota park is an example (~2 shares)
- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC | 4 February 2017. Manhattan. Nik… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Postmodern Community Standards | The Laboratorium (3d ser.) (~2 shares)
- Join the Creative Commons Board of Directors - Creative Commons (~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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