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
- Patient Rights and Consumer Groups Join EFF In Opposing Two Extreme Patent Bills | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~5 shares)
- Big Tech Would Be Key to Delivering Project 2025’s Anti-Abortion Plans – Mother Jones (~3 shares)
- FSFE - FSFE-Tube (~3 shares)
- Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents | EFF Action Center (~2 shares)
- Could dinosaurs still exist somewhere in the world? A paleontologist explains (~2 shares)
- Captive Humans for Trade: Where’s the Law in "Hostage Diplomacy"? - Slaw (~2 shares)
- Eric Adams Is Indicted in New York - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Mission | Social Web Foundation (~2 shares)
- Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe | MIT Technology Review (~2 shares)
- Arizona moms sue the state over new rule on ESA voucher spending (~2 shares)
- Rich countries could raise $5tn of climate finance a year, study says | Climate finance | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- be organized from the very beginning – librarian.net (~2 shares)
- Local. Left behind. Prey to populist politics? What the data tells us about the 2024 UK rioters | UK news | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- LinkedIn (~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
- Wai 262 Response: Government Strategy for Māori Engagement by Jayden Houghton
- What Copyright Can’t Do by Blake E. Reid
- Wai 262 Response: Prioritising the Treaty Relationship to Design a Reconciliatory Procedural Framework by Jayden Houghton
- [couldn't read title]
- Physician Decision Making Under Uncertainty in a Post-Dobbs America by Molly J. Walker Wilson, Michael S. Sinha
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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