David Colarusso

@Colarusso
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Co-Director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab—@SuffolkLITLab. Attorney & science educator by training and practice. Creator of @lolscotus & @icymi_law. Data scientist, craftsman, and writer by experience. See eponymous website for more. He/him. No manels!

#AccessToJustice (#a2j) work: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3911381 (#LegalTech) & https://spot.suffolklitlab.org (#LegalTech + #AI)

Teaching ⚖️+🤖https://www.CodingTheLaw.org/Fall_2022/level/1/
Personal website 🌎http://www.DavidColarusso.com
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David Colarusso9h ago
While washing the dishes, I finished the latest @99pi.org, and I think I know what I’ll be reading before bed—Emily Dickinson. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/658-the-em-dash/
The Em Dash - 99% Invisible

Last summer, Bryan Vance found himself in an argument with a stranger on Reddit. Vance, a Portland-based journalist who runs Stumptown Savings, a newsletter covering local grocery deals, had been accused of using ChatGPT to write his content. The evidence? His use of em dashes. “A Reddit user accused me of using AI, pointing to

99% Invisible
David Colarusso6d ago

"Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies"

Art matters. Stay free.

David ColarussoJan 25
No haggis was had, but I did just have some shortbread and read some poetry. Happy Burn’s Night.
Show threadDavid ColarussoJan 24
I hadn't given them sufficient permissions and had to ssh into the server to perform a chmod. Upon seeing the command line, the 12yo responded as if I were invoking a powerful ancient magic.
David ColarussoJan 24
I just realized that I'm currently consuming both William Gibson and Neal Stephenson novels at the same time, one is a physical book for before bed and the other an audio book that follows me about my chores. I suspect this says something about how my unconscious is processing our current times.
David ColarussoJan 23
My oldest recently turned 12, and they're leaving home (i.e., 127.0.0.1). That's right, I've set them up with SFTP access to their first public-facing web server.
David ColarussoJan 19
I will be thinking a lot about this passage in King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail today, the one about white moderates who are more devoted to "order" than justice, who prefer the absence of tension to the presence of justice. See https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html#:~:text=First%2C%20I%20must%20confess%20that%20over%20the%20past%20few%20years%20I%20have%20been%20gravely%20disappointed%20with%20the%20white%20moderate.%20I%20have%20almost%20reached%20the%20regrettable%20conclusion%20that%20the%20Negro's%20great%20stumbling%20block%20in%20his%20stride%20toward%20freedom%20is%20not%20the%20White%20Citizen's%20Counciler%20or%20the%20Ku%20Klux%20Klanner%2C%20but%20the%20white%20moderate%2C%20who%20is%20more%20devoted%20to%20%22order%22%20than%20to%20justice%3B%20who%20prefers%20a%20negative%20peace%20which%20is%20the%20absence%20of%20tension%20to%20a%20positive%20peace%20which%20is%20the%20presence%20of%20justice%3B%20who%20constantly%20says%3A%20%22I%20agree%20with%20you%20in%20the%20goal%20you%20seek%2C%20but%20I%20cannot%20agree%20with%20your%20methods%20of%20direct%20action%22%3B%20who%20paternalistically%20believes%20he%20can%20set%20the%20timetable%20for%20another%20man's%20freedom%3B%20who%20lives%20by%20a%20mythical%20concept%20of%20time%20and%20who%20constantly%20advises%20the%20Negro%20to%20wait%20for%20a%20%22more%20convenient%20season.%22 (deep link)
David ColarussoJan 15

7yo has a “spirit day” at school on Friday where you’re supposed to dress up as “future you.” I was curious what she was going to choose,¹ and she just let us know she’s going as an astrophysicist. As a former physics and astronomy teacher, I’m over the moon. 🥰

¹ I didn’t say a word.

Show threadDavid ColarussoJan 13
We finished! On the way out the door this morning, the kids and I attached the last piece of our #LEGO Enterprise. Fun was had by all.
Show threadDavid ColarussoJan 11
Guinan joins us on page 207 of instruction book two. I predict this gets finished tomorrow. Stay tuned.