Johan Vorster

Information Technology & project management consultant. Entrepreneur. Loves emerging technology. Positive Living. Never give up.

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.

Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.

The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.

The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.

At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.

Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.

But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.

Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)

[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

Johan V gave South African National Lottery 1 star via @hellopetercom https://t.co/xpnRzPgkx2

[xAI @xai]

SpaceXAI will provide @AnthropicAI with access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers, to provide additional capacity for Claude → https://t.co/nfDR9S822L

[Safwan @tec_safwan]

25 AI tools you can’t Ignore in 2026:

1. https://t.co/gJe3nXNdJG – solves anything
2. https://t.co/rN1CY0fHEA – rank higher on Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Etc!
3. https://t.co/Onu7jY72U3 - create viral AI videos that you can monetize
4. https://t.co/f731WlXujZ - AI powered speech-to-text
5. https://t.co/e0BNpz34Kv - create perfect YouTube thumbnails
6. https://t.co/feeksXRQca – AI employee in your Slack
7. https://t.co/qsFV99W2Kr - create viral Facebook posts
8. https://t.co/9fJfYClaqn – turn long videos into shorts
9. https://t.co/NJ9aTdVUws – marketing compliance to not get fined
10. https://t.co/0F5MNlFvrz – best ai photo editor
11. https://t.co/ghli1tkMSV - create ebooks & audiobooks
12. https://t.co/D3vhavdSoo - ai for Bible study
13. https://t.co/W9Wj9q4yml - the ultimate ai agent
14. https://t.co/wuHo8EhUr6 – creates AI avatars
15. https://t.co/bRK6RtLhQm - ai for webinars
16. https://t.co/qPXZbae3Yr - ai for YouTube
17. https://t.co/OcOV5enc6C - build and sell software
18. https://t.co/SR20G86DS4 - ai tool for advertising
19. https://t.co/1cCZCMsOjV - design anything
20. https://t.co/UNRcYu2JOa - create a perfect brand identity
21. https://t.co/uFioyyGjue – the most powerful vibe code tool
22. https://t.co/7HWYhHAiXx - computer, is a powerful AI agent
23. https://t.co/kQ3VGlxpfw - create frontend mockups
24. https://t.co/PlrqVdQM0f - create ai music
25. https://t.co/ye8GY7vK12 – your second brain, upgraded with AI

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[The Market Mind @Market_Mind_]

Products from one Barrel of Crude Oil

[Selina @selinatasnim1]

Don’t PAY APPLE for extra iCloud storage.

I fixed it in 10 minutes
I freed up 12GB without paying a dollar.

Use these 8 simple steps:

[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

@elonmusk Happiness is achieved when your expectations and your reality are the same. For some it might involve lots of money, but I think money does not play a decisive role.

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

In 1999, Buffett explained why most people never get rich.

He proves you are walking around with a $500,000 asset right now.

Save this rare footage of this before you lose it.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Alan Watts gives some of the most insightful thoughts on life and its worth watching 1000%

[Knowledge & History @xKnowledgeBANK]

In 1998, Warren Buffett gave a 1-hour masterclass on how to never lose money investing.

[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

Scientists point to the jet stream as a key factor behind hydroclimatic extremes at mid-latitudes https://t.co/xLDVr4cv1Z

[👺 Silas B. 👺 @SilasUnleashed]

Protect this woman at all costs. 🔥

[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

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[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

Interesting

[Biometric Update @BiometricUpdate]

HID acquires Italy-based government ID document printing firm

#acquisitions #biometrics #digitalID #identitydocument @HIDGlobal

https://t.co/uucFGjrULY

[Arrive Alive @_ArriveAlive]

Do you know where the blood from your blood donation is used? https://t.co/mVphkzQntx #ArriveAlive #DonateBlood @theSANBS

[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

Great video showing lions eating on the golf course

[Boer @twatterbaas]

How is this for a 19th hole!.

🇿🇦SouthAfrica, Skukuza Golf course, last night.

[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

South Africa loses its top spot on the African continent https://t.co/Xu8xQBYqlk

[Johan Vorster @johanvo]

Powerful

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Mohammed Qahtani won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. It’s easy to see why.

Please watch his speech. Words have power. Words can be our power. Words can unite or divide. Words can spit venom or can mend a broken soul. Words matter.