January News Briefs

Suchir Balaji was found dead in his apartment in San Francisco at the end of November. Belaji worked for Open AI as a researcher until he quit in August. On October 23, he posted a blog post and tweet about how generative AI does not fall under fair use and does in fact violate the Copyright Act. His death was ruled a suicide.

The Tyrant Judge of Grand Junction

To translate this all into everyday English, Judge Tammy Eret has (allegedly) deprived United States citizens of their constitutional right to legal representation, strong-armed defendants into pleading guilty to crimes that they did not commit, and then locked them up in the county jail on the taxpayers dime for sentences longer than allowed by law; the majority of these defendants, as mentioned earlier, did not receive the legally required representation in court. 

Just the Tip: A Long Look at GarCO’s SPEAR

“We have recently declared Garfield County and the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office as ‘hostile’ governments to Latinos and immigrants,” said Alex Sanchez, President and CEO of Voces Unidas de las Montañas, a Latino advocacy group based in Frisco and Glenwood Springs, in an email. “This was after the BOCC passed a racist anti-sanctuary resolution that blamed Latinos for bringing crime and disease to the county,” said Sanchez