Kristina McElheran
Associate Prof at University of Toronto. Digitization scholar studying firm use of technology, productivity, strategy, and the future of work.
- Great coverage of our paper J-curve paper on AI’s productivity impacts by @willagreer.bsky.social in @npr.org’s Planet Money newsletter! www.npr.org/sections/pla...
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranour government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranJeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranunlike "CEO said a thing!" journalism, this Canadian reporter actually manages to ask an objective expert instead of parroting a rich executive
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranAbolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."
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- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe Illinois Department of Public Health sidestepped the federal government this week by independently joining the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN). It is the second state to do so, after California joined the network last month. trib.al/0ecIsxF
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe French are taking none of Musk’s bullshit.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranRemember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.
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- Reposted by Kristina McElheranStill having a very hard time understanding how cameras are going to be the thing that stops what we all saw happen on camera from multiple angles
- #BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said that all federal immigration officers in Minneapolis will begin wearing body cameras while in the field.
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- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThis was happening in Seattle at the same time hundreds of cyclists were biking for Pretti in another part of town, after almost a thousand biked in solidarity last night. There’s many different protests happening even within a single city it’s getting hard to keep track of them. That’s very good.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranToday I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
- Reposted by Kristina McElheran“Children were in the crowd screaming.”
- Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranChildren. They are literally tear gassing children.
- This.
- I am happy about this pick but reminder that @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social should never have been fired in the first place
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranTo recap: The people who spent years calling drag queens and librarians “groomers” and complaining about the “deep state,” are now protecting the group of mega-wealthy pedophiles and sex traffickers running our country.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheran"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
- Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. wapo.st/45BXc3S
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranFor absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranI’ve tried to tell out-of-towners that one of the low-key traumas of living here is these psychos ignoring all traffic laws. I’ve actually reduced my driving further just to avoid their shittery, but they can cream you on a bike or roll up on sidewalk just as easily.
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- This was an enormous public service.
- I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
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- I have a new research project on 3D printers, and this is really landing…
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranbro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???
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- Reposted by Kristina McElheranit is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth
- Reposted by Kristina McElheran“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranI feel like I'm losing my mind watching Dems view Tom Homan as a reasonable professional. He took $50k in cash in a Cava bag! What are we doing here.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranIn all seriousness, it's a good thing that these ICE goons are stupid enough to keep announcing their criminal intentions to people recording them.
- "You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranCrackerjack Trump team continues to impress with its opsec www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranLiam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranWho’s next? One demotion cannot detract from accountability. Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranOn NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranSome people who aren’t on TikTok won’t care about this. That’s a mistake. 170 million Americans use TikTok. It was the primary way young voters were reached. It activated ppl and allowed us to share what’s happening on our streets as it’s happening. This is very bad for everyone.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranDamn proud of Minnesota.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
- May The Force be with them.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranMinneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranBroken again by this post from the cute brunch spot a block from where ICE killed Alex "We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranYour HHS tax dollars at work:
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranMurphy on Bovino: "That was a bone-chilling interview. I was shaking while I was listening to it, in large part bc it takes just an unbelievable amount of gall to lie to the American public. Everybody saw that video ... it should freak the public out that the Trump administration lies this easily"
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranDems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranReally hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranThe nurses are pissed
- Reposted by Kristina McElheranCall the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
