I thought about posting it last week, it seems like the time has arrived!
@brave has been my default browser for a few years.
Sat, Nov 1, 2025, 18:08
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We're fed an endless stream of consternation over AI slop these days. The content apocalypse is nigh! It'll rot your brain! Okay, sure, maybe, but have you seen the kind of content sludge that perfectly ordinary humans are capable of producing? It's thrice as tragic.
The web is full of it. Garbage writing and brain-dead shorts. Content mills pumping out nonsense pages and gagging videos to appease whatever the high priests of SEO now think they've divined will please Lord Google or Master TikTok.
It's been infecting websites everywhere with "calls to action", "white paper available upon sign up", and "10 ways to supercharge your productivity". Links stuffed into every crevice to juice rankings, capture "most searched for" keywords, and convert, convert, convert.
It's an affront to humanity to make sentient beings do this work. Turning human potential, creativity, and ingenuity into content sludge is a process no more dignified than turning pink slime into chicken nuggets.
I'll take AI slop over human sludge any day. Let the little robots barf up tokens to unlock the next basis point of incremental conversion. Better them than us, I say. This is exactly the soul-crushing, creative drudgery that machines were made to munch through without complaint.
But couldn't we do without sludge or slop, you say? Sure, right after we reach a shared state of nirvana. As soon as the average 4.5 hours of screen-on time is turned into real reading, real making, real pursuits. So that'll happen exactly never.
Case in point: the most important attribute of a phone for most people is still the battery life. These little content slop and sludge faucets can already spew out nearly an entire day's worth of nonstop eyeball junk, and yet you crave more. More! MORE!
So stop whining about the AI slop. You're already steeped in human sludge. And the door to exit both was always there. But you're not going to open it, are you?
Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
Blast from the past: piped.video/rEkc70ztOrc (themeatrix.com/).
If you are in the SF Bay Area, check out liveearthfarm.net/ and shop.realfoodbayarea.com/.
Follow @Polyface_Farms.
🚨 Nearly all of the meat in America (99% of chickens, 98% of pigs, and 70% of cows) comes out of large-scale factory farms that are heavily dependent on antibiotics, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.
Fewer than 2% of farms reject chemical inputs and are actually rebuilding soil and ecosystems—rather than depleting them.
In response, @Polyface_Farms' regenerative farmer Joel Salatin argues that what America desperately needs is a Food Emancipation Proclamation.
His proposal is simple: remove the regulatory barriers that prevent small, chemical-free farms from innovating and selling directly to their neighbors.
Healthy, chemical-free local food prices would drop 30–40%, he says.
Ordinary families—not just the wealthy—would be able to afford real, healthy food.
Thousands of young farmers would finally be able to make a living on small acreage.
And millions of consumers would have the freedom to walk away from the industrial system.
Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
@Brave passed 100M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in September 2025. DAU grew faster, past 42M.
Blog post at brave.com/blog/100m-mau/.
Brave Search at 1.66B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 19.49B QPY.
Non-Brave-browser search users grew 10% in September (7.60% → 8.36%).
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@Brave hit 97.8M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in August 2025.
Brave Search at 1.56B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 18.36B QPY.
All-browsers summer slump is over. On to 100M MAU!
Of particular note: from June to August 2025, we have seen a 26.4% increase in Linux MAU.
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Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
I stand with @dhh because they’ll come for me next. Eventually they’ll come for you, too.
It’s time we put our feet down and say “no” to these losers who demand everyone share their exact opinions or get smeared, fired, etc.
Let’s usher in a new era of OSS: one where everyone is welcome, and nobody tells other people what they must think and say.
A group of Lefist Activists are pushing for the Ruby on Rails project to remove the project’s founder (@dhh) because they claim he “holds racist and transphobic views” and “other traits undesirable”.
This group, which compares themselves to the French resistance during WWII, is also demanding the adoption of a “modern Code of Conduct”.
github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-…
"If you can't intimidate people into silence and compliance with the woke orthodoxies by threatening their job or their social circle, you might be able to threaten them with actual violence. That's what the "nazi" accusation is there to convey." world.hey.com/dhh/calling-so…
Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
It's a strange time to talk about Android protecting users. Android recently changed the security update system in a way which massively downgrades security and puts users at risk. Commercial exploit companies and governments can easily obtain access to broadly distributed partner previews. Adding 4 month delays for patches is atrocious.
In June, you folks claimed AOSP wasn't going anywhere:
x.com/seangchau/status/19330…
You then proceeded to not release the July or August monthly updates to AOSP followed by not releasing the September quarterly update. You officially communicated to the media and said AOSP releases were continuing followed by 3 months of not pushing releases to it. Why should people believe what you say about sideloading?
Ford Explorer (2025) - an overview of the powerful and safe road king!
I drove it for 3685 miles (or 5896 km) in 1 week, was in the desert, in the forests, etc. everywhere except snow.
Mazda CX-5 - Quick Review
Simple review after driving it for 500 miles, a relatively powerful, very comfortable, and smart car!
Date: Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 20:28
Location: 47.794700,-124.252000
Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
One year ago, the French police detained me for 4 days because some people I’d never heard of used Telegram to coordinate crimes. Arresting a CEO of a major platform over the actions of its users was not only unprecedented — it was legally and logically absurd.
Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
New Google malicious compliance effort in the European Union, in lock step with Apple. Now competing app payments are allowed but rendered uncompetitive by junk fees and discriminatory deprioritization of search results. Plainly unlawful.
support.google.com/googlepla…
Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
THE GOLDEN AGE IS HERE 🇺🇸
Today, @Apple announced that it will invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years.
Pavel Dmitriev retweeted
Artificial superintelligence requires a combination of computing performance and algorithms that exceeds what we have now.
It might be that it requires so much more of both that it’s very far away. And it might be that we have sufficient algorithms, but need so much more compute that it’s far away. And it might be that we have enough compute, but require such algorithmic advancement that it’s far away. It is also possible that we have sufficient compute and are just a few readily-accessible steps away from the needed algorithms such that it will arrive shortly and incrementally.
Once it’s here, it will no longer develop incrementally, as it will be able to improve itself and perhaps even the materials science underlying its manufacturing processes at an exponential rate. That will be a very interesting time for humanity.