Mason Hall

I am big on God, games, and space. This is a personal account.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“I love the inflation.”
—Donald Trump

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

Inflation is so high that it's erasing all wage gains.

Inflation: 4.2% in May for the past year
Wage growth: 3.4% in May for the past year.

Americans are getting squeezed financially. This isn't just "bad vibes" about the economy. There is real pain, especially for middle-class and lower-income households. It's tough because so many basic items are seeing sizable price increases: gas, electricity, food, medical care.

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

By the end of this trip Freddy is going to understand the meaning of the Kick Six.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

You gotta realize that if you embrace all the awesome stuff about America, we will not just embrace you back, we will *adopt you as one of us*. I'd give this guy a green card tomorrow, no questions asked. He's American as apple pie, hell yeah brother.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

There’s an eagle flying around the stadium

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

This is the most “The European mind can’t comprehend this” moment of my life. One of my friends said, “Punch me five times tomorrow and I’ll still think this isn’t real.”

[NASA Marshall @NASA_Marshall]

Today, @NASA provided new Artemis III details and announced the four crew members. The mission will undertake a series of challenging tests in Earth orbit to prepare for Artemis IV.

Learn more about the crew and their mission: https://t.co/rtOt2cpPZI

[Mason Hall @space_mace]

I dunno about the AI aspect of this, but the injustice of the story is appalling

[Wesley @WesleyLowery]

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.

Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. https://t.co/2AcQYwq30f

[Peter Hamby @PeterHamby]

Did Speaker Johnson think something was wrong in 2022 when it took weeks to count the California ballots - resulting in Republicans winning several tight House races?

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

This is Classic Warren.

Her "267%" increase is based on wholesale prices, not retail costs, and uses April 2020 (when wholesale prices crashed) as a baseline. This is like using the stock markets' March 2020 low to measure how much wealthier people are today.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“The Fourth Amendment is the real tyranny.”
—Stephen Miller, translated

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

82nd anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Always remember.

[Bethany Stevens @NASASpox]

The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and has been mitigated by Roscosmos as much as possible to date. The cracks have always been a concern that NASA watches very closely. NASA and Roscosmos have been working to determine the root cause of the cracks, and Roscosmos manages the issue through operational mitigation measures and periodic partial-repair efforts.

Following new leaks, Roscosmos has elected to proceed with a more extensive repair operation on Friday, June 5. Out of an abundance of caution, NASA has directed all four of the agency's SpaceX Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams to assume an elevated safety posture in the Dragon spacecraft while the repair is underway.

We continue to work with our Russian counterparts, along with the rest of the international community that supports the space station, to arrive at a more permanent resolution.

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

Universities are misreading the labor impacts of AI:
AI increases the premium for human character
Jobs that involve human interaction, judgement and leadership are least automatable
Demand for them will increase as we get less human interaction elsewhere
Liberal education cultivates these virtues, or can

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[NASA Marshall @NASA_Marshall]

Yesterday, we welcomed over 200 interns to NASA Marshall and seven interns to NASA Michoud for the summer!

We can't wait to see the amazing work these students do over the next few months to advance our @NASA missions.

Leave your best wishes in the comments 👇

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

In 2011, Vermont passed legislation mandating statewide single-payer-style health care and assigning an expert commission to come up with workable specifics. After three years of failure to make the numbers work, the state repealed the law.

Not even Vermont could make it work.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Seeing a lot of these memes. I've been one of President Trump's harshest and most persistent fiscal critics, but I'm going to explain why these statistics are generally useless and wildly misleading.🧵

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Biden's own wife thought he was having a stroke. Two NY Times columnists insisted he'd fought Trump to a draw.

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."