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
- Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~4 shares)
- Introducing Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky (~2 shares)
- Supreme Court's cold ruling criminalizing homelessness (~2 shares)
- "CARTWHEEL Tower", Fort Reno, Washington DC | 23 February 20… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Colorado Springs city councilman facing possible censure after comments made at meeting (~2 shares)
- The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get to Decide Who the First Amendment Protects | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers | Far right (US) | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- South Carolina implements one of US’s most restrictive public school book bans | South Carolina | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- The "Wow, Pictures!" Tabloid Coverage of Trump's Stolen Documents Is as Bad as Conspiracy Mongering - emptywheel (~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
- Network Neutrality as Governance Seam by Brett M. Frischmann , Blake E. Reid
- [couldn't read title]
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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