Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends

2 months ago | linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com | Caitlin Dewey |Anne Petersen |Emily Amick

Matt Kiser starts his day with a blitzkrieg of tabs. First, he opens up the homepages of more than a dozen major news organizations. Then, he opens every story on every page that interests him. Once his tab bar grows so crowded that the headers shrink to lines — “it’s some real Rain Man shit,” Kiser acknowledges — he begins the laborious process of clicking through each article and grouping stories on overlapping subjects.

Jan 17, 2025 | linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com | Caitlin Dewey

The US Supreme Court ruled today that Congress could outlaw TikTok, a predictable decision that puts two presidents in the awkward position of scrambling to save it. Dearly departing President Joe Biden now says he won’t enforce the ban, though he signed the underlying bill into law. Incoming President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has vowed to keep TikTok in the US, after griping and groaning about “the Chinese app” for much of his first administration.

Dec 9, 2024 | linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com | Caitlin Dewey

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Nov 13, 2024 | linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com | Caitlin Dewey

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Oct 9, 2024 | linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com | Margaret O’Mara |Caitlin Dewey

I can’t think of many graduation-gift books that aged as poorly as Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 #girlboss manifesto on female corporate empowerment. Take a seat at the table, Sandberg told women, and assert yourselves more — then equal wages and advancement will surely be yours. Maybe that’s true in some industries, but it hasn’t panned out in Sandberg’s native tech. The share of women in high-tech roles has barely budged in two decades, despite the invocation to … lean in.