White House is still pussyfooting around, though. From another article (FT):

John Kirby, spokesperson for the US National Security Council, said Schumer had told the White House in advance what he was planning to say. But he sought to distance the White House from the Senate majority leader’s comments, saying that the Biden administration remained “focused on making sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself, while doing everything that they can to avoid civilian casualties”.

This is the kiss of death. Putting Kamala Harris in charge of an issue means the administration doesn’t think there’s any solution (remember how she was supposed to fix the border?).

White House officials say they have largely reached the limits of their power to protect abortion rights…

Yeah, sounds about right.

The US is decoupling from the global trading system even under Biden. Biden maintained Trump’s block of the WTO appellate judge system (apparently because the WTO had the temerity to rule against the US in a couple of trade cases). He kept the Trump tariffs against China, and he’s had fairly tense trading relations with allies like Japan, South Korea, and Europe, in an effort to court union support. He has strongarmed/blackmailed Taiwan into helping setting up chip production in the US, a distinctly Trumpy move.

So while Trump might add a layer of unpredictability, the general direction of US trade policy is the same no matter who wins the election.

He’s more mRNA than man now.

Based Gemini.

Salon complaining about the NYT having a right wing bias is the ultimate in ultra-liberal wankery. The Times isn’t perfect, far from it, but good grief, get a grip.

The Dems have a bench of pretty impressive governors, who could have risen to prominence by going through a primary campaign. It’s hard to think of Biden as the best possible hope against Trump, given that he has a 38 percent approval rating, a bit lower than Trump at this point and 10 points below Obama…

It’s been omitted from previous statements before. Sure, the Taiwan issue is important, but there’s no need for hysteria over this kind of minutiae.

Right wing smearing is to be taken for granted. An open nomination process could have brought to the fore someone younger and with more energy to campaign. And Biden was never a terrific campaigner to begin with.

Basically, his ego got the better of him, exactly the same as Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Even if Biden squeaks through a victory in November, him choosing to run again back in 2022/2023 was an act of incredible selfishness, and choosing personal ego over the good of the country.

Ya never watched Veep?

From my understanding, Russia is making more use of aerial bombing, because they are trying to exploit Ukraine’s ammo shortage. Using aircraft more means more aircraft losses. Unfortunately, the bombing seems to have had some effect. It was a factor in their capture of Avdiivka last month.

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Isn’t the airspace under Israeli control?

Statistically, you can get to a margin of error of a couple of percent with that sample size. That’s good enough for political surveys, and that kind of sample size is a common one for polls of this sort.

Because it looks bad if your text is peppered with quotes joined by little strips of connecting material. It gives (rightly) the impression that you don’t know how to digest information and put things in your own words.

That, or most people recognize that the race is already over.

Some of the prior cases described in this article, as precedents that could spell trouble for OpenAI, frankly sound like miscarriages of justice. Using copyright to prevent organizations from photocopying articles for internal use? What the heck?

If anything, my take home message is that the reach of copyright law is too long and needs to be taken down a peg.

Here’s the story as I understand it. US automakers want to make expensive premium cars because those sell for high margins. The big breakthrough in the EV market over the past few years has been China EV makers figuring out how to make cheap and “good-enough” EVs, which are catching on in many places across the world. This is clearly the direction in which the market has to move (whether via Chinese or non-Chinese automakers) to spur mass EV adoption. In the US, however, the established automakers can rely on protectionism to block imports, this keeping the US market limited to big expensive cars that remain using ICEs.

These complaints about EVs being too expensive are way out of date, now that China is pumping out hordes of cheap EVs that consumers like.

Even if the US doesn’t want to let in Chinese auto imports, the question remains: why are Chinese automakers able to bring down prices, but not US automakers? You can point to Chinese government subsidies, but the US also does industrial policy these days. One of Biden’s favourite talking points is how much money his government is putting into supporting US green manufacturing through the IRA.