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A look at the TV journalists who left corporate jobs and built businesses that enabled them to hire dozens of people, using Substack, YouTube, Beehiiv, and more (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/substack-tv-n…

On Substack, TV News Personalities Find a 2nd — and Successful — Life
Why TV journalists like Jim Acosta, Mehdi Hasan and Joy Reid are flourishing. inthe independent world of Substack.

For some reason the combination of 160K and my Mitutoyo 100x/0.90 objective means that as the last bits of ILD begin to etch away, substrate features become *less* visible.
I expected to see strong contrast at edges of substrate features when the ILD was etched away despite poly, STI trenches, and diffusion areas all being the same material (silicon).
But that's not what I'm seeing.
Going back to my archives, though, most of my good full die 100x shots are with the …

California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/19/facebook-users-dec…

Meta, California agree to settle Facebook privacy case
Third parties harvested personal data even though the company claimed to offer privacy, a lawsuit says.

Polariserande drink. Jag tyckte att den var jättegod. Min fru att den smakade söt tandkräm. Saffran, rosor, mynta. Gott! #drinkklubben

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse
'Accept that quality matters more than velocity.
Make efficiency a promotion criterion. Reward eng…

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

Japan Ruling Party Proposes Cutting Subsidies for Solar Projects | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/japan-ruling-party-proposes-cutting-subsidies-for-solar-projects

My favorite 20 LPs of 2025: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/my-top-20-favorite-lps-of-2025
Tagging a bunch of you that have helped me out finding things this year or who have expressed interest - sorry if I missed you, there's a lot…

My top 20 favorite LPs of 2025
** Since some of these are metal records, there’s a small amount of R-rated horror type stuff and grossness on a couple of the images below. ** Here are my 20 favorite albums released in 2025…

The Financial Times launches its free newsletter FT Alphaville on Substack to reach younger readers, joining Reach, the Daily Mail, and other publishers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/f…

Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readers
The Financial Times joins titles including the Daily Mail in joining Substack, launching a free weekly newsletter on markets and finance.

The alleged 'sweeping betrayal of trust' that rocked Zions bank and spooked Wall Street
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/18/the-alleged-sweeping-betrayal-of-trust-that-rocked-zions-bank-and-spooked-wall-street.html