Andrei Tohăneanu

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[George Buhnici @gbuhnici]

Transelectrica este cea mai slabă verigă din România în acest moment iar interviul prim ministrului @Bolojan de la @G4Media_ro o confirmă de la cel mai înalt nivel.

Hai să o spunem pe șleau. Copiii comuniștilor si retelele lor de corupție au acaparat și asta. Vor pur și simplu să stea între noi și energie și să își ia comisionul doar pentru că sunt ei mai “deștepți”,
aflați în locul potrivit pe care îl controlează prin PSD.

Urmăriți ce spune Dan Pîrșan de la Asociația Prosumatorilor (APCE) că se confirmă de fiecare dată.

România ar trebui să duduie economic din producție și exporturi bazate pe energie ieftină. Am putea fi centrala de energie a Europei Centrale și de Est. Chestia asta poate fi diferența dintre recesiune și boom economic. Doar că noi suntem ținuți sechestrați de oligarhia securiștilor care împart niște milioane în loc să producem cu toții trilioane.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Good discussion with CEOs today in Davos.

Europe has all the assets it needs to attract investment.

From capital to innovation.

We’re working on mobilising them fully.

Soon, we’ll put forward a single set of rules for companies to scale and grow across Europe - EU Inc.

Because we need European champions for a global market.

We are also working on a large-scale, deep and liquid capital market that attracts a wide range of investors.

An interconnected and affordable energy market.

And we’re shifting our focus to the high value sectors - from AI to defence.

My message is: Europe is the right place to invest.

[El Lunes @Ellunes]

Trolling extraordinaire

[Nicușor Dan @NicusorDanRO]

Puteți asculta înregistrarea convorbirii dintre pilotul român al aeronavei Spartan și controlorul de trafic din Zürich, în care este comunicată decizia de escortare a aeronavei românești.

Acest gest a reprezentat un semn de recunoștință pentru sprijinul acordat de statul român în transportul internațional al victimelor incendiului din Crans-Montana.

Este inadmisibil nivelul de dezinformare la care a ajuns o parte a presei române. Am respectat întotdeauna și voi continua să respect jurnalismul onest, chiar și atunci când acesta m-a criticat. Însă a-l acuza pe Președintele României de minciună în legătură cu un gest simbolic de respect al unui alt stat reprezintă un atac la adresa imaginii și credibilității țării noastre.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Ok, here is my trip report from 4.67 grams of magic mushrooms, 24.9 mg of psilocybin. The dose used in modern clinical trials.

First, the experience was exhilarating. Positive in every way. I felt like a kid finding and exploring a new playground.

My sensory perception was dialed up to levels I must have felt as a kid but have been dulled with time. I experienced sense of touch with awe. Feeling my fingers rub together felt novel. Touching my skin and running my feet over the threaded quilt lit up my brain. It seemed that my mind was insatiably curious and wanted to deploy its sensors into the world and discover all things.

I felt the same sensory joy in moving my body. Rolling my joints, curving my back, curling up in a ball, flexing muscles and moving all about in a fluid fashion. My body felt nimble, supple, fit, and strong.

My sense of hearing was equally as elevated. It helped that I was also wearing my new hearing aids which restore frequencies I’d long stopped noticing. The music I listened to hit more fully than I have memory.

My facilitator gave me some water in a glass jar. The visuals of the light reflections, water dynamics and sensory experience of holding the glass were so fascinating that I forgot to drink. My brain wanted to stare, study and marvel.

One of the most satisfying things I discovered was taking huge, deep breaths. Inhaling life and fueling the body’s needs and wants. I did it over and over and over. This material of existence, all around us, was available and free to be mined. You just needed to breathe in.

(After peaking and coming down, I ate a salad. It tasted like the most delicious food I’d ever eaten. The flavor exploded in my mouth. I savored every bite.)

At one point, I felt like my entire body was still. I had a perceived sense of total body control.  Like my heart had stopped. Complete stillness. This was surprising as I’m acutely tuned to my heart beat. I monitor my heart all day every day and can usually discern my heart rate by sensation. In that moment, I couldn’t feel my heart beat or any pulse pressure through my blood vessels. First time that’s ever happened. I asked Kate to check my heart rate on my wearable and it was mid 50s. I wasn’t worried. Just curious about my sensory experience.

With this heightened sense of sensory perception, it felt like my consciousness was dialed up to 10/10. I felt hyper aware and hyper alive.

It felt like mushrooms restored my perception to youthful levels, returning them to factory settings and dissolving my aged numbness.

Once my senses were reset, my attention sifted from the texture of existence to existence itself.

We spend most of our time playing games at the layers of people, dramas, companies, politics, jobs, money, ideologies, and status.  Underneath these games is the knowing that physical death has been inevitable. Everyone before us has died.

When death is inevitable, people pick their game among a wide array of options including reincarnation, heaven, legacy, offspring, ancestral veneration, existentialism and many more. These frameworks make death soothing, a virtue, and something positive to be anticipated.

But what if death is no longer inevitable? I’m not suggesting immortality. I am suggesting a radical remake of human life. The speed of progress in AI, biology and medicine point to a new frontier of possibility. Are we cavemen-equivalent now compared to what we will be like in 50 years? It’s now harder to argue why we should limit our imagination.

With so much promise, why have we not shifted our societal attention to secure our own existence? To solve aging. To address existential risks. To care for our planet. Why are we still messing around with self destruction, war and ignoring preserving our own existence?

We work hard to be fit. To learn a skill.  Build a relationship. To make money. When we identify an opportunity, we focus and work hard. It seems to me that we’re not yet aware or awake to the opportunity of what existence could become.

Whatever one’s life philosophy and belief of what happens after this life, the majority of us want to live to see tomorrow. We have stuff going on and things to look forward to. And when tomorrow arrives, we want to see the next day. Wanting tomorrow is functionally equivalent to wanting infinitely.

The want to exist is deeply embedded in all of us. Our actions prove this every day.

Humans have been the alpha form of intelligence for a while now, imposing our will upon all we can. Our powers have increased dramatically in the past few decades. We can edit our own DNA, design materials at the nano scale, and build thinking machines.

Our alpha status is now challenged by AI. Whether AI is friend or foe, and in what ways, and on what timelines is anyone’s guess. No one knows.

Mushrooms opened up my sensory awareness of this landscape to depths I hadn’t accessed before. My ability to see and understand felt like the movie Inception, where characters take a sedative to enter a different realm to carry out missions. A space as real as what we experience each day, but with different foundational pillars of reality.

It felt convincing that without the aid of a reality expanding intervention (like mushrooms), you can’t really see or understand this dimension, handicapping awareness.

While in this mushroom-induced dimension, it felt clear that we are about to start waking up from a slumber that has hypnotized us into accepting death. This will happen faster than people think. Once people see a practical path to extending a healthy life, they will adopt ferociously.

The body positivity movement came to mind. Most people don’t really want to be overweight and unhealthy. But when we want something we can’t achieve, we come up with moral frameworks about why we didn’t want it in the first place (i.e. sour grapes). Once GLP-1s came about, people’s attitudes changed overnight. The same will happen with aging. No one wants to be crippled and handicapped by age.

This awakening will also come about with the emergence of new ideologies.

Revolutions erupt when a civilization’s founding myth becomes incompatible with its reality.  The system fractures, dissolves, and opens up space for new meaning to rush in and replace it.

This pattern has been repeated throughout history.

> The agrarian empires (800-200 BCE) ruled via tribal power and violence, creating a moral crisis that gave rise to Buddhism, Greek philosophy, Judaism and Confucianism.

> Feudalism (1600-1800) ruled via divine monarchy, creating a stagnation crisis that gave rise to rational inquiry, the scientific method, individual rights and democracy.

> Industrial capitalism (1848-1945) ruled via mechanization and labor exploitation, creating a crisis of alienation, mass poverty and urban chaos that gave rise to socialism, nationalism, regulation and collective rights.

> Liberal capitalism (1980-2025) ruled via consumer sovereignty and free markets, creating a crisis of attention capture, metabolic collapse and existential despair that will give rise to something new. Capitalism solved for scarcity. Its defining virtue was freedom to choose. Ironically and perhaps inevitably, compulsion replaced scarcity and freedom decayed into addiction.

Revolution is at our doorstep.

Our current systems are fractured, evolving, and opening up space for new meaning to rush in and replace it. Change has been a reliable feature of human society. It will happen on accelerated timescales given the pace of technological and scientific advance.

After journeying this terrain, I was left feeling unbridled enthusiasm for the future of existence. That we may be the equivalent of cavemen trying to anticipate a future that is unimaginable to our current minds. And that existence could be more exquisite than any can actually paint at this moment.

New archetypes will emerge: warriors and caretakers of existence. People who are defiant of death, and view self-destruction as primitive and low-status.  Who take the continuation of human existence as seriously as profits, fame or power. They will emerge as our high-status societal idols.

The irony is that people thought this experience would collapse my interest in life and have me willfully kneeling to death.

To find truth though, one must always invert.

What seems more likely is that people use death to shield from the disappointment of not experiencing the potential of life without the limitations of death.

[George Buhnici @gbuhnici]

Primele 300 de ediții din CuriosITy sunt de acum o mică istorie. Am început acum 6 ani acest proiect fără să cred că poate rezista într-o lume cu deficit de atenție. Am descoperit apoi că în realitate e fix pe dos. Cele mai urmărite episoade sunt cele mai lungi și mai consistente. De la noutăți din internet și tehnologie, CuriosITy a devenit rezumatul săptămânii așa cum l-am perceput noi, niște “geeks” curioși despre lume. Îi Mulțumesc lui Radu Neagu pentru că mă ajută cu partea cea mai dificilă, și nu mă refer la rezistența la glume cringe ci mai ales la montaj. Mulțumesc lui Vlad Ilovan pentru documentare. Tot mai multe subiecte sunt alese de el. Vreau să mulțumesc în mod special însă comunității fără de care chiar nu ar exista această serie. E muncă multă și nimic nu mai e ieftin zilele astea. Abonamentele voastre sunt o investiție pe care o respectăm iar profitul se vede în comentariile membrilor noștri. Mă înclin și vă Mulțumesc!
#CURIOSITY #PODCAST #STIRI

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Scientists from Spain and China have made a major breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research. They created special nanoparticles that can clear away toxic brain plaque — one of the main causes of Alzheimer’s — and even reverse memory loss in mice. The study, published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, showed that just three injections of these nanoparticles removed up to 60% of the harmful amyloid beta proteins from the brain within one hour.

The most amazing part is what happened afterward. Mice that had severe memory and thinking problems started behaving like normal, healthy mice again within six months. This dramatic recovery happened because the treatment didn’t just clean up the brain — it also repaired the brain’s blood-brain barrier (BBB). This barrier normally protects the brain and helps remove waste, but in Alzheimer’s, it becomes damaged and allows harmful substances to build up.

These nanoparticles work like a “supramolecular drug,” which means they do more than just carry medicine — they actively help restore the brain’s natural cleaning system. They reactivate an important protein called LRP1, which helps clear waste from the brain. By fixing this system, the treatment improved blood flow, reduced inflammation, and allowed the brain to start healing itself.

Although this research is still in the animal-testing stage, it opens an exciting new direction for Alzheimer’s treatment. Instead of only trying to destroy toxic proteins, future therapies might focus on reviving the body’s natural defenses. If this approach works in humans, it could completely change how we fight Alzheimer’s and other brain-degenerative diseases.

[Andrei Tohăneanu @AndreiTohaneanu]

@gbuhnici Nice! Mulțumim pentru efort ! 🙏🏻

[George Buhnici @gbuhnici]

ADIO poluare, facturi la energie. Toate acestea ar fi posibile dacă fiecare casă are avea așa ceva. Și suntem destul de aproape.

Imaginează-ți o lume în care fiecare casă are propriul reactor de fuziune rece – da, acel vis SF despre "cold fusion" care ar putea rezolva criza energetică globală peste noapte.

Pornind de la articolul de pe Gizmodo (link mai jos), unde cercetătorii au rezolvat un mister vechi de 35 de ani cu un reactor de laborator micuț (cam cât un frigider de bere!), care combină plasma cu electrochimia pentru a crește ratele de fuziune cu 15%... wow, propun să ne folosim imaginația în legătură cu viitorul apropiat.

Dacă am perfecționa cold fusion-ul adevărat, implementat în fiecare gospodărie? Energie curată, nelimitată, fără emisii, fără dependență de petrol sau uraniu. Facturi la curent? Zero. Schimbări climatice? Încetinite dramatic. Economii întregi transformate. Țări sărace ar deveni independente energetic, iar inovațiile tech ar exploda (vezi foamea de electroni a inteligenței artificiale).

Sigur, nu e încă vorba despre cold fusion (încă nu am ajuns la fuziune la temperatură ambiantă), dar experimentele acestea altfel relativ ieftine ne arată că imposibilul devine posibil dacă ne punem mintea la problema care contează.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

What if you could not only watch a generated video, but explore it too? 🌐

Genie 3 is our groundbreaking world model that creates interactive, playable environments from a single text prompt.

From photorealistic landscapes to fantasy realms, the possibilities are endless. 🧵

[Andrei Tohăneanu @AndreiTohaneanu]

@andreibratucu @MisterSpread Lasă vrăjeala cu patéul, dacă îți permiți roșii românești ești bine, bo$$! 😅

[ZERO IKA 🗡️ @IamZeroIka]

One of your biggest goals in life should be to become a good person.

In a world that constantly rewards ego, self-promotion, and surface-level success, being a good human almost feels like the true rebellion and is what the world actually needs.

More people who show up with humility.

More people who listen without judgment.

More people who don’t just take up space, but make space for others.

The irony is, the ones who’ve already made peace with themselves are the quickest to lift others up.

Beautiful people give compliments because they see worth in others without feeling it takes from their own.

Rich people support ideas because they’ve learned that true value lies in what can grow and inspire.

Fit people cheer for your progress, knowing how hard self-discipline is.

Successful people don’t laugh at your beginning because they remember theirs.

Confident people celebrate your wins because they’re not threatened by them.

It’s only those who haven’t built anything real inside themselves who feel the need to drag others down.

They don’t see growth..they see a mirror, and they look away because they don't like their shape.

Become the rare bird in a predatory world.

[Andrei Tohăneanu @AndreiTohaneanu]

@andreibratucu Sunt, dar mai mult mă uit. "Dăcât!"

[Andrei Tohăneanu @AndreiTohaneanu]

@EmmanuelMacron @NicusorDanRO Merci beaucoup! ✌🏻&♥️ 🇷🇴🇪🇺

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

L-am sunat pe @NicusorDanRO și l-am felicitat pentru alegerea sa în fruntea României.

În pofida numeroaselor încercări de manipulare, românii au ales în această seară democrația, statul de drept și Uniunea Europeană.

Franţa va fi alături de dumneavoastră pentru a consolida parteneriatul nostru și pentru a lucra împreună pentru o Europă mai puternică, mai suverană și mai independentă.

[Andrei Tohăneanu @AndreiTohaneanu]

@gbuhnici Domnul Paleologu avea dreptate în IGDLCC. 😅

[andreibratucu🦇🔊 @andreibratucu]

Hai sa luam o decizie împreună!

Dacă în primul tur al alegerilor am avut o prezenta la vot de puțin peste 50%, înseamnă că aproape jumătate din populația eligibilă pentru vot e nepăsătoare sau neîncrezătoare.

Hai sa folosim cele doua săptămâni să convingem toți cunoscuții care nu vor sa voteze sa o facă.

Și sa voteze cu cine doresc ei, dar sa voteze. Sa vedem 80-90% procent LA vot pentru a fi convinși ca MAJORITATEA populației își dorește una dintre variante.

Dacă cunoști oameni care nu cred în vot e timpul sa vorbești cu ei. Sa le spui ca e important sa votam și sa ne asumam dorința electorală. Sa vedem părerea a 15 milioane de romani exprimata in mod democratic la vot.

Iar apoi sa respectam rezultatul și consecințele votului nostru!

O sa repostez acest tweet in fiecare zi pana la vot și o sa vorbesc cu toți cei pe care ii cunosc, fa asta și tu :)

[Andrei Tohăneanu @AndreiTohaneanu]

@andreibratucu Felicitări Andrei-san! ✌🏻&♥️

[Andrei Tohăneanu @AndreiTohaneanu]

@realdanielnita Pai s-au aplicat deja tarifele sau le-au adus acum ca să își facă stoc ?