Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥

"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Yes, I really did create a musical to celebrate CARROT Weather’s 10th birthday. 15 songs, 40 minutes of music. I thought it’d be fun to release one song a day inside the app, so the complete story (in 2 acts!) will gradually be revealed over the course of two weeks.

All completely free - my thank you to everyone who has stuck with CARROT for all these years.

(And yes, as far as I know, CARROT is the first app with her very own musical.)
https://mastodon.social/@CARROT/115208443697378150

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration. Learn how you can take part ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/wayback-machine-to-hit-once-in-a-generation-milestone-this-october-one-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

people often ask me; "Foone, you're an amateur physical media historian, when is it spelled disc, and when is it disk?"

Well it's simple!
Discs grow down from the ceiling, and disks grow up from the floor.

This website is incredible

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Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.

Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.

https://walzr.com/IMG_0001

a BBC tech newsletter attributed the attack on the Internet Archive to Have I Been Pwned, which is like blaming the weather service for hurricanes. https://view.email.bbc.com/?vawpToken=PXK7BQYTXZHE7E5HKHJHMC7V3M.60238

(they've apologized to Troy Hunt and said they'll put a correction in the next newsletter)