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
- San Francisco police bought drones illegally despite warnings (~7 shares)
- Heritage Foundation Admits KOSA Will Be Useful For Removing Pro-Abortion Content… If Trump Wins | Techdirt (~5 shares)
- 445 Tenth Avenue | New York City 15 September 2024 Rodenstoc… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Global Voices announces its new Executive Director · Global Voices (~2 shares)
- Congressional Black Caucus PAC launches ad in swing New York district highlighting Trump's lie about Haitian immigrants (~2 shares)
- ActBlue (~2 shares)
- Hold On I'm Coming - Copyright order | PDF (~2 shares)
- Electric Avenue - Copyright order | PDF | Fair Use | Summary Judgment (~2 shares)
- 99. Optics Over Politics: Chief Justice Roberts and the Trump/January 6 Cases (~2 shares)
- How Spellbook Is Implementing OpenAI o1 Into Legal Workflows – Artificial Lawyer (~2 shares)
- Existing measures to mitigate AI risks aren’t enough to protect us. We need an AI safety hotline as well. | MIT Technology Review (~2 shares)
- John Roberts apparently cares about appearances — less so ethics (~2 shares)
- California firefighters' union: Trump should 'be ashamed' over threat to withhold firefighting aid (~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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