staff writer @ The New Republichttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mwtmlcxlzk2rUltimately just not that mysterious why guys who've reheated the Gospel of Wealth with fake math, want legal impunity and believe economic growth will solve every problem known to man also get along with Trump https://newrepublic.com/article/216111/trump-just-pledged-let-ai-companies-whatever-want01 Oct 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtmlcxlzk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mwr7ysxrj22mI wrote about why dismantling fuel efficiency standards may not actually be good for a US auto industry that is rapidly losing ground against more fuel efficient cars https://newrepublic.com/article/215959/trump-isnt-helping-auto-industry-he-helping-tank-it30 Sep 2026 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwr7ysxrj22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mwr5exknyc2mIf you are for some reason interested in the perils of industries being allowed to self-regulate then please enjoy this ~3,000 word story I just wrote about a case where that is actively going really, really bad https://newrepublic.com/article/215729/forestry-industry-just-get-write-emissions-rules30 Sep 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwr5exknyc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mwqjxtreg22yReally helpful thread on my piece from a few days ago from @greenprofgreen.bsky.social, who may know more about the GHG Protocol than anyone on earth! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqjxtreg22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mvsk54hpjk2wCan't think of a better time to be betting on diesel and V-8 engines18 Sep 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsk54hpjk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mvoae7dsic24Amodei and Altman are probably not building a Machine God. They might reasonably want to stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year making machines they don’t fully understand, which they also believe could kill everyone https://newrepublic.com/article/215447/trump-refusal-regulate-ai-bad-for-ai16 Sep 2026 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvoae7dsic24https://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mvililmuzc2wNot saying this is what's happening, but it'd obviously be strategic for AI companies to push for something called AI safety policy while Republicans still control Congress and the White House14 Sep 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvililmuzc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mvify77m5s2mI spent a bunch of this summer writing a feature for @newrepublic.com about the fight over the hyperscale data center being built down the road from my parents' house in South Jersey, looking at some of the many reasons why people hate data centers https://newrepublic.com/article/214982/vineland-new-jersey-data-center-next-door14 Sep 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvify77m5s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mv4hkaa3222rA little funny that Abundance basically functioned as an ideological transitional program between green Bidenomics and AI boosterism09 Sep 2026 21:17 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4hkaa3222rhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mukmpopel22vI wrote a quick goodbye to what may well have been the most normal summer of the rest of our lives https://newrepublic.com/article/215007/goodbye-least-apocalyptic-summer-rest-life02 Sep 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukmpopel22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mu3qwuaetc2iDesperately want to read a 6,000 world profile of Mark Carney's transition from net-zero finance guru to fossil fuel boosting Canadian nationalist from someone appropriately cynical about both eras27 Aug 2026 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3qwuaetc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mtzels5ogk2aHard to escape the feeling that effective altruism often functions as a way for some smart and usually well-intentioned people to do mental gymnastics around political economy26 Aug 2026 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzels5ogk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3msjgrllibs2wSo is the point here to keep a bunch of Democratic candidates who've just won their primaries from winning in the general07 Aug 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3msjgrllibs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mruvi6cc3k2jAt this point gotta imagine that, for people who know better, not acknowledging climate change is somewhat damaging at a psychic level30 Jul 2026 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruvi6cc3k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mrok5zgajk2oI think it’s morally bankrupt to build a political faction around the cause of courting tech executives who have become progressively more dependent on fossil capital back into the Democrat Party, then pretend there is some objective reason to be scared of mentioning climate change28 Jul 2026 04:11 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrok5zgajk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mroj6ibakc2oThe line between climate hushing and climate denial is getting awfully thin28 Jul 2026 03:53 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mroj6ibakc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mrnqscli422nFascinating how much of a firewall there seems to be between mainstream reporting on local anti-data center fights, and on frontier labs debating the ethics of AGI, open source models, automation, etc. Arguably these things are very related!27 Jul 2026 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnqscli422nhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mqzsxffrcs2fThe people who wanna pick dumb fights over historical accuracy in period films never make the case that audiences should look at gnarly boils and rotting brown teeth for three hours19 Jul 2026 22:22 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzsxffrcs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mqwms65c2s2cThe question of whether politicians should talk about climate change is a weird stand-in for the question of how to govern like it exists, and help people make sense of the fact that the climate they grew up in no longer exists18 Jul 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwms65c2s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mqprcmaeyk2tB Reathing in wildfire smoke Aggressive diarrhea Ticks everywhere Brat summer is back 🍏🔥15 Jul 2026 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqprcmaeyk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/katearonoff.bsky.social/post/3mpmlval4bs25Right-wingers yelping about being told (as in past heatwaves!) to set their AC to 78—so a grid that serves >8.5 million people doesn't shut down—really illustrating what AFAIK is a pretty US-specific pathology: being militantly proud of your extreme sensitivity to mild discomfort01 Jul 2026 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:tfcfinlt55bchirdqxsjbat4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmlval4bs25