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
- Big publishers think libraries are the enemy (~5 shares)
- Active Listening • Buttondown (~3 shares)
- Google insists the ad tech business ain't broke • The Register (~2 shares)
- Science fiction novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow appointed as A.D. White Professor-at-Large – Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large Program (~2 shares)
- De-electrification | 25 March, 2005. Philadelphia, PA. Vesti… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Letter of Concern to FBI Regarding Threats of Violence in Libraries | ALA (~2 shares)
- Government declares war on big tech, but can it actually win the battle? - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Trump's Handlers Attempt to Retcon His Fascist Attack on Haitian Migrants - emptywheel (~2 shares)
- WayBack Machine – Access Archived Webpages Directly Through Google Search | beSpacific (~2 shares)
- Artwork - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian (~2 shares)
- When Threats of Violence Come to University Libraries ‹ Literary Hub (~2 shares)
- Yaak Is Now Open Source (~2 shares)
- bird.makeup - User (~2 shares)
- ActBlue (~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
- Political Fair Use by Cathay Smith
- Video Game Law by Mark A. Lemley, Sonali Maitra
- Thinking About Possible Remedies in the Generative AI Copyright Cases by Pamela Samuelson
- Emotions and Ethics in Teaching Mass Atrocities Using Archives by Andy Aydın-Aitchison, Annalisa Battista
- Not Dead Yet: A Reply to Professors Manesh and Grundfest 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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