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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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12h
US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing www.ft.com/content/7fd4...
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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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Tau-Mu Yi @taumuyi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#Econsky
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
oof.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I remember hanging out with some friends from the U.S. Census Bureau after a conference and offering to buy a round of beers. The reply was “Sorry, we cannot accept gifts.”
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you have a few minutes today, please submit a comment opposing the elimination of the Roadless Rule. Tomorrow, October 6, is the deadline. Tell the Forest Service why protecting our forests matters to you. Submit your comment: www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
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Regulations.gov
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/10/2026
Conservation group calls for moratorium on AI data centers on US public lands reut.rs/471Jdog
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Conservation group calls for moratorium on AI data centers on US public lands
Conservation group The Wilderness Society on Monday called for a moratorium on ​artificial intelligence data centers on federal lands, ‌citing concerns over water use, electricity demand, wildlife habitat and public access.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of course I have a project that touches on CNC adoption. Shoot me now.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Musk tweeting autism supremacy stuff again today, good time to read @juliametraux.bsky.social’s piece on the subject www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks! Now looking up bikeshedding…
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Stopped to stay overnight with old neighbors on my way back from giving a seminar. Visited the transformed campus where I did my PhD (Northweatern) in a gorgeous early fall day.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you are in Ohio you’ve seen anti-trans attack ads on Sherrid Brown several times. They’re running non-stop. They’ve been fact checked and (surprise!) they’re completely untrue! www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What do you mean by “gates”? I see this used a lot and don’t understand it.
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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rad...
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - Wikipedia
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I'd rather get free money from the government than have socialism, which just teaches lazy, stupid folks they don't have to work for money they get, y'all!!!"
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New I could use. I was gonna do this tomorrow, but I’m in the classroom on Monday. Sounds like a Friday activity…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ew.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Your grace in the face of that helped preserve my faith, FWIW.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gripping, depressing read.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
Newsletter: Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the its flagship Clarity Act legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown.
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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because the ends justifies the means? How is this Altruistic OR Effective?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yup. Now it’s multiple emails.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My daughter’s (female) high school Civics teacher is making them take an “empathetic” stance on the Cornell 7 and emailing the girls who got upset in class to “explain her approach” - but also to blame the lack of civility in society on their inclination to be upset.😠
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am skeptical of the most florid claims being made about AI's destructive potential, but I do think we need to heavily regulate AI for the sole reason that I would like to hear less about all of these people.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Besides, that’s the only way to reach them. So many think they need to make some book they read at 11 come to life.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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NᴇᴜʀᴀʟSᴛᴜɴɴᴇʀ @neuralstunner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hope you're prepared for the rest of the English-speaking world to call it "Pomp-eh".
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026
hahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is truly excellent. “With the whole species riding shotgun” is a killer parting shot. You don’t have to agree to appreciate the clarity and logic of a specific set of tools for thinking about the problem. Maybe The Problem of our age.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 24/09/2026
What the actual fuck. Trump apparently used U.S. government money to air this gross propaganda ad on Fox News tonight. This version he posted on Truth Social a couple of weeks ago; when it aired on Fox News tonight it said "Paid for by the U.S. Government" underneath.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported. n.pr/4d56tVL
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Warren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census data
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 24/09/2026
Administration gags public servants from serving public talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule
Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The corruption.
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jmcardinalsfan.bsky.social @jmcardinalsfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Kid Gets Sprayed by Hose on Monday
ALT: Kid Gets Sprayed by Hose on Monday
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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Or is this an example of mere skepticism, or an example of a real argument? rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/paperclip-...
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Paperclip Maximization Is a Failure of an Idea
Why the thought experiment doesn’t add up
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Albany Cheshire @albanycheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
She's just code switching.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not mutually exclusive.
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Kristina McElheran @kmcelheran.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And what does that imply for 🇨🇦 ?
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