Kristina McElheran

@kmcelheran.bsky.social

2K followers 1.4K following 280 posts

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

Videos

Business 68%

Economics 20%

Posts Replies Media Videos

Pinned

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

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 3h

“The departures – including that of the chief of the section, as well as the principal deputy chief, deputy chief and acting deputy chief – represent the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February.”

That last clause says so much.

MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting

At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

www.ms.now

Reposted by Steve Peers, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael Kevane , and 5 more Steve Peers, Daniel W. Drezner, Michael Kevane, Erol Akçay, Melanie O’Brien, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Timothy D. McBride, Kristina McElheran

MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 4h

A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting

At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

www.ms.now

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Kristina McElheran

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

perfidy (concealing a military object as a civilian object like Hegseth apparently did) is both morally abhorrent and also puts EVERYONE in danger because it erodes existing and pretty-dang-effective norms around “don’t shoot at civilian aircraft.”

Reposted by Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Sharrow, Ben H. Ansell , and 4 more Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Sharrow, Ben H. Ansell, Brendan Nyhan, Aaron Sojourner, Prokla Redaktion, Kristina McElheran

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12h

Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.

📸: Jerry Holt

Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 16h

ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 19h

Even I know to NEVER investigate the demonic red glow coming from the basement.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Nelson Flores, Kristina McElheran

Persmikity @mikstress.bsky.social · 1d

I highly recommend “sound on” for this new angle

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 2d

Betamax

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 3d

The time is. Twelve. Forty one. PM.

3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 4d

Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d

Posting to counter that image circulating.

The past, especially in the American West, is more complicated and way more diverse than they want to admit.

A Black cowboy wearing fur chaps in the early 20th century.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings , and 10 more Elizabeth Saunders, Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings, American Library Association, Malcolm MacLean, Alan Richardson, Aurélien Mondon, Nelson Flores, Andrew Rudalevige, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jeannette Sutton, Kristina McElheran

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 3d

The time is. Twelve. Forty one. PM.

3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 4d

Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Kristina McElheran

Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 3d

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Kristina McElheran

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 3d

You read my mind.

Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 3d

One the most important things I have taken away from working with Census data is that we simply need to think harder about the denominator.

Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 3d

Two stories going on here. Participation (age-adjusted) up quite a lot from two years ago explains most of the increase in unemployment.

Reposted by David Darmofal, Kristina McElheran

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Preston Mui @prestonmui.bsky.social · 3d

Two stories going on here. Participation (age-adjusted) up quite a lot from two years ago explains most of the increase in unemployment.

Reposted by Jacob T. Levy, Samantha Brennan, Kristina McElheran

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3d

I'm sorry, help me out here, but did this dingus go public about his event being "cancelled" when it was never booked in the first place? You don't get to INVITE YOURSELF to a university and proclaim it a free speech issue! www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/con...

Conservative MP accuses students of free speech attack after campus event cancelled

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Garnett Genuis accused a student group at York University of attacking free speech after he was denied permission to hold an event there — but the

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! but my understanding is that's all demographic projections that will amplify this divide once revised--see, e.g. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Seeing economic data through the fog of immigration estimates

The US immigration rate in 2025 is unknown and will continue to be for a while. Policymakers and economic forecasters need to accept significant uncertainty about the rate and the resulting pace of ov...

www.piie.com

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d

Job growth has stopped (and may even be in decline).

It stopped right around "Liberation Day."

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d

NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA:

Employment Growth: +8k
Unemployment Rate: 6.8% (+0.3%)
Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.4%
Employment Level: 21.1M

a graph of canadian unemployment rates, employment growthm employment rates, and employment levels

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, David Rothschild, Kristina McElheran

B.J. Gunts @bjgunts.bsky.social · 3d

In Casablanca, the opening scene depicts nazis demanding to see papers then shooting a ma who runs away. However, it’s slightly more complicated because the man wasn’t cooperating and the officer was practicing self defense.

Reposted by Kristina McElheran

Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 4d

New Census Working Paper: "Technology-Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation" by Yueyuan Ma and Shaoshuang Yang www.census.gov/library/work...

Technology-Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation

Tech breakthroughs spur more inventors to start firms and weaken concentration; a model of idea allocation explains a large share of the post-1990s HHI rise.

www.census.gov

Reposted by Mark Rubin, David Chester, Ian Hussey , and 7 more Mark Rubin, David Chester, Ian Hussey, Paul Nightingale, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Francesco Nicoli, Michael Evans, Andreas Haupt, Kristina McElheran

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 4d

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Reposted by Steve Peers, Stephen Ryan, Kristina McElheran

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4d

Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Kristina McElheran

Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 5d

ICE funding expires January 30. Call Congress to say whether you think it should be continued. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Colin F. Camerer, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 27 more Jason Mittell, Colin F. Camerer, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jennifer A. Richeson, Suzana J. Camargo, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Glenn Lyons, Rosemary A. Joyce, Henning Melber, Paul Bowman, Peter Holmes, John Foot, Robert Wolfe, W. Andy Knight, Michael Zimmer, Adrian Daub, Gerald Friedman, Anne Norton, Nikolay Marinov, Kent Johnson, Ann Bartow, Mary Jane Curry, Ryan K. Brook, Eric J. Sundquist, John H. Knox, Albin Wagener, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Jaap Kooijman, Kristina McElheran

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

Make it viral.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Elizabeth Sharrow , and 8 more Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Elizabeth Sharrow, Joseph Schafer, Jonathan Hopkin, Alan Richardson, Daniel Kuehn, Ann Bartow, Prokla Redaktion, Albin Wagener, Kristina McElheran

Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 5d

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 3 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller, David Rosnick, Kristina McElheran

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Q: You've talked about returning some control to American companies. Did that play at all into your decision to capture Maduro?

TRUMP: No. What really played is the fact he sent millions of people into our country from prisons and mental institutions

Add to Home Screen

Light up
your news

Add to Home Screen

Light upyour news

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news