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
- Trump Witnesses Have Received Financial Benefits From Trump Businesses, Campaign — ProPublica (~5 shares)
- A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit (~4 shares)
- Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’ - The Verge (~4 shares)
- Big Media Ignoring the Who What When Why of GOP Apology for Trump's Crimes - emptywheel (~4 shares)
- EFF Appeals Order Denying Public Access to Patent Filings | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Mexico elects first female president − but will that improve the lot of country’s women? (~2 shares)
- Instead Of Banning Books, Idaho Library Decides To Ban Kids In Response To New Law On ‘Inappropriate Books’ | Techdirt (~2 shares)
- 'The World Has Won': New International Regulations To Protect Against Pandemics Finally Approved - Health Policy Watch (~2 shares)
- Lincoln Memorial | 1 October 2020, Washington, DC The Lincol… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term | WIRED (~2 shares)
- Enter June: The SCOTUS rush approaches - by Chris Geidner (~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
- Parables of AI in/from the Majority World by Ranjit Singh, Rigoberto Lara Guzmán, Patrick Davison
- Are Non-Practicing Entities Opportunistic? Evidence from Litigation of Standard Essential Patents by Brian J. Love, Christian Helmers
- New Legal Realism at 20: Rethinking Law in an Era of Populism and Social Movements by Jeffrey Omari, Pablo Rueda-Saiz, Richard Ashby Wilson
- 'Mistakes' in War by Oona A. Hathaway, Azmat Khan
- Who Framed Mickey Mouse? by Zvi S. Rosen
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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