Kristina McElheran

@kmcelheran.bsky.social

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Associate Prof at University of Toronto. Digitization scholar studying firm use of technology, productivity, strategy, and the future of work.

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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · Sep 1

Beware of coverage of AI-related pre-prints...unless they are mine. ;-)

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

www.newyorker.com

Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kristina McElheran

Tifa | Sacred Ho🧘🏾‍♀️ @chicmojo.blacksky.app · 1d

These French babies arguing 🤣

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 2d

Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : NOV 22 - DÉC 5, 2025

CANADA

ÉLEVÉ [stable]

Environ 1 personne sur 161 est infectée

Par rapport au point le plus bas de la pandémie au Canada :

-Infections : 8.8 x🔺
-COVID longue : 6.0 x🔺
-Hospitalisations : 8.2 x🔺
-Décès : 11.4 x🔺

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 5d

I’m yelling “Bad Choices!” At the dog. I think that makes us woke.

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Michiel van Meeteren, Kristina McElheran

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7d

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 14d

Help me understand how anti-inflammatory diets are all the rage but anti-inflammatory medications are trash.

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14d

In the last 28 years, Alaska’s rural school districts have made close to 1,800 requests to the state to maintain and repair their crumbling public schools, which also frequently serve as emergency shelters.

Only 14% have been approved.

(Published March w/ KYUK and @npr.org)

A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that…

www.propublica.org

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 18d

Honestly, I think this is why the “gig economy” is potentially so destabilizing. It really tampers with the deep Connective Tissue of Life in ways that are hard to model. Especially hard to grapple with from within
a disciplinary silo…

Ravshan Hojimatov @hojimat.bsky.social · 18d

1. Herbert Simon wrote that if a visitor came from Mars and observed the world economy they would call it "organization economy", not "market economy" because almost everyone is either an employer or an employee somewhere, not an independent household.

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 18d

Dark, but having trouble finding the humour. I’m supposed to be writing about data-driven decision making and analytics and AI. But it’s hard to be serious about “improved decision making” when we basically just ignore stuff that makes us uncomfortable.

Patrickthebiosteamist @patbiosteamist.bsky.social · 19d

Dark humor things I think about lately is the fact that I haven’t heard people say the phrase “we have the tools” regarding Covid anymore.

National stockpiles haven’t been replenished, variant surveillance is dying, wastewater surveillance isn’t standardized, mask bans are being pushed…

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 18d

Under his eye.

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Ravshan Hojimatov @hojimat.bsky.social · 18d

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 18d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Reposted by Elizabeth Sharrow, Bonnie Honig, Ann Bartow , and 3 more Elizabeth Sharrow, Bonnie Honig, Ann Bartow, Eric C. Schwarz, Julie Novkov, Kristina McElheran

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18d

For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.

"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."

www.teenvogue.com

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Patrickthebiosteamist @patbiosteamist.bsky.social · 19d

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 19d

This is both informative and hilarious.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 19d

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations to Sabrina Shroff on obtaining a “not guilty” for client: Sean “Sandwich Guy” Dunn on misdemeanor charges of assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich.

I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent

Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

www.nbcnews.com

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 21d

It’s wild to re-watch the Handmaid’s Tale right now. We are so unbelievably dumb.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Jacob Montgomery, Kevin Carey , and 5 more Brendan Nyhan, Jacob Montgomery, Kevin Carey, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Aaron Sojourner, Clark Gray, Kristina McElheran, Jesse R. Lasky

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 22d

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts

Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

www.bu.edu

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Steve Peers , and 5 more Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Steve Peers, Christopher McCabe, Rosemary A. Joyce, Jonathan Hopkin, Silvia Secchi, Kristina McElheran

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22d

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Axel Bruns, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 9 more Nina Jankowicz, Axel Bruns, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip Nel, Robert B. Reich, Kate Starbird, Jesús García, Olivier Jourdan, Ludger Schwarte, Pádua Fernandes, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Kristina McElheran

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22d

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 25d

Sounds like a joke I used to tell my young kids about the dribbling in basketball!🏀

Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, Karen R. Lips, Evelyne de Leeuw , and 10 more Graeme S. Cumming, Karen R. Lips, Evelyne de Leeuw, Philip N. Cohen, Smith, Robert Wolfe, Aaron Sojourner, Margot C. Finn, Scott A. Imberman, Paul Nightingale, Wolfgang Huber, Julie Novkov, Kristina McElheran

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25d

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 25d

That sounds awesome.

Reposted by Greg Linden, Kristina McElheran

Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 25d

Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...

$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch

Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.

futurism.com

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 26d

Come for the alliteration, stay for the insight.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 26d

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 26d

Betting that was on purpose so that his followers can watch the grammar scolds come out and confirm that woke lefty intelligentsia are “mean.”

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 26d

Check the source. My first thought was, “they want to starve people into a fight” but then started reading the stats on who suffers most from SNAP losses. Unless the disabled and children are about to storm the stores, this is just more BS to trick people into accepting a police state.

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26d

You can now search our database of 3.5 million U.S. political, election, and social issue ads on Facebook and Instagram, dating back to October 10, 2023. Discover who’s running these ads and who they’re targeting. app.polidashboard.org/meta_ads?cou...

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Stephan Lewandowsky, Martin J. Attrill , and 6 more Katharine Hayhoe, Stephan Lewandowsky, Martin J. Attrill, Dawn J. Wright, Margot C. Finn, Brian Keegan, Mary Margaret McCabe, Fabian Holt, Kristina McElheran

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 26d

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

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