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
- Book about book bans banned by Florida school board | Books | The Guardian (~5 shares)
- One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down | Ars Technica (~5 shares)
- Reed O'Connor jumps the gun to get ahead of Title IX rule challenges (~4 shares)
- Life360 confirms a hacker stole Tile tracker IDs and customer info - The Verge (~4 shares)
- The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know. | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Johnson & Johnson reaches $700 million settlement in talc baby powder case - CBS News (~3 shares)
- News Detail Page (~3 shares)
- Big Four consulting firms 'operating in the shadows for too long' as Senate committee demands new rules for government contracts - ABC News (~2 shares)
- ‘Disregard for truth’: inquiry calls for greater scrutiny of private consultants following PwC tax scandal | PwC | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest 2024: Submit your story | Grist (~2 shares)
- Courts Are Rejecting Attempts to Weaponize Laws That Protect Consumer Reviews - Technology & Marketing Law Blog (~2 shares)
- 102. Cory Doctorow Coined "Enshittification." He Sees 4 Ways to End It. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst (~2 shares)
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission v LGSS Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 587 (5 June 2024) (~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
- Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts by Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li, Charles C. Y. Wang
- Section 230's Debts by Blake E. Reid
- Crisis and Change at the United Nations: Non-Amendment Reform and Institutional Evolution by Oona A. Hathaway, Maggie Mills, Heather Zimmerman
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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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