A thousand accounts is not a thousand citizens: AI influence-for-hire in Malaysia
A commercial platform used Claude to build fake accounts, a synthetic news site, and fabricated dossiers aimed mainly at Malaysian audiences. Anthropic rated the campaign Category Two: assets without evidence of authentic community breakout.…
EPA scraps carbon limits on coal and gas plants: what Monday’s rollback states
On 14 September 2026 the EPA said it will no longer regulate planet-warming pollution from coal and gas plants under Biden-era carbon standards. Officials frame affordability; critics cite cumulative CO₂ and omitted health damages. Both frames are in the…
When the mind leaves without asking
Unintentional mind wandering is not a moral failure. PsyPost summarizes research in the Journal of Attention Disorders: spontaneous mind wandering predicts distinct aspects of ADHD traits in adults, while deliberate wandering does not. Two routes of…
Short-form video and the mind that cannot come down
Meta executives say science does not back public fear of platforms. Caty Enders, in The Guardian, looks past the lawsuit headlines to a quieter claim: what short-form video may be doing to attention, impulse control, and memory. The map is thin — and not…
The 2026 National School for Democracy, seen from within
The tenth National School for Democracy, held in Bucharest from August 26 to 29, 2026, brought together experts and participants to explore democracy as something shaped not only by institutions, but by everyday choices.
Exclusive interview with James B. Glattfelder: Information, consciousness, and the architecture of reality
In this exclusive interview, Andrei Eugen Drăguț speaks with physicist and complexity scientist James B. Glattfelder—from the hidden networks of global corporate control to the radical possibility that consciousness is the very ground of reality. A…
Extraterrestrials and the human discipline needed before first contact
A reflection on how the first possible sign of extraterrestrial intelligence would test not only science, but humanity’s ability to verify evidence, resist manipulation, manage uncertainty, and remain disciplined before contact.
The layers that hold us together through body, mind, and social change
A layered essay on how bodies, minds, institutions, culture, and unequal pressure shape social stability and change without turning society into a single collective mind.
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Michael Pravica: Matter, consciousness, and the hidden dimensions of reality
In this exclusive interview, Andrei Eugen Drăguț speaks with Dr. Michael Pravica, Professor of Physics and member of HiPSEC, about matter under extreme conditions, useful hard X-ray chemistry, consciousness, higher dimensions, Orthodox faith, artificial…
The future is in knowledge and technology. Why do we keep missing It?
Romania spends €55 per capita on business R&D — last in the EU, next to an average of €597. This piece traces the gap beyond the usual "mentality" narrative into corruption, bureaucracy, brain drain, and multinational-driven organizational culture,…
Education for digital discernment cultivating attention critical thinking and resilience in the age of platforms
True education in the digital age requires more than digital literacy. It demands the cultivation of discernment: the ability to observe our own emotional reactions, evaluate sources and intentions, and act responsibly amid constant manipulation. This…
Exclusive interview with Constantin Pintilie: BlueSpace Technology, technological autonomy, and Romania’s strategic future
True sovereignty is not declared — it is built, layer by layer, in laboratories, factories, and decision rooms. In this exclusive interview for Andrei Eugen Drăguț, Constantin Pintilie, founder of BlueSpace Technology — the only Eastern European company…
The past was not as obvious as it feels
Hindsight bias, adaptive memory, false certainty, and the difficult ethics of judging yesterday with the knowledge of today
Exclusive interview with Nicolae Țibrigan: Romania, platforms, and democratic resilience
In this incisive interview by Andrei Eugen Drăguț, Dr. Nicolae Țibrigan exposes how modern platform architectures, strategic gendered attacks, and inherited distrust converge in a hybrid war on reality—fought in our bodies and public sphere. Essential…
Exclusive interview with Nicolae Țibrigan: Disinformation, the body, and the war on reality
Dr. Nicolae Țîbrigan explores disinformation as a psychological and somatic attack that exhausts attention, exploits trauma and identity, and undermines our ability to process reality and maintain civic judgment. He addresses the personal costs of…
The distributed Self and it’s criticism
A strong model of the self must do two things at once: synthesize what is fragmented and resist the temptation to explain more than it has earned. The distributed mind is a powerful map, but it becomes more credible when it admits its omissions, its…
The body is a distributed mind
The body is not a passive instrument controlled by the brain. It is a distributed system of sensing, processing, prediction, regulation, defense, memory, and identity. The self is not located in one place. It emerges from the integration of body, brain,…
When permission becomes intention
When permission becomes intention
Could God lie to you?
If God is perfect, lying seems both unnecessary and incompatible with moral perfection. But if we remove morality and keep only power, knowledge, purpose, and efficiency, falsehood becomes possible as an instrument. The real question is not simply…
The inheritance from a Romania that never finished becoming Itself
Romania did not only produce political events. It produced adaptations: distrust, vigilance, shame, improvisation, private loyalty, civic exhaustion, and a fragile but persistent hope. This is not a theory of Romanian victimhood. It is an attempt to…
Why this blog has no footnotes, no jokes, and only one image
This site does not pretend to be academic research, therapy, journalism, or spiritual authority. It is an essayistic project: a set of working hypotheses about human experience, written with seriousness, limitation, and the hope that clarity can still be…
Nobility without superiority and Its confusion with rank
There is a form of nobility that has nothing to do with rank. It does not depend on bloodline, wealth, title, aesthetic, education, posture, or the ability to appear composed under pressure. It is not the costume of elevation. It is not the language of…
Why we spend billions on Mars while ignoring Earth’s crises and the thirst for collective hope
The question is usually asked as an accusation: why are we spending billions on Mars while poverty, climate instability, war, collapsing health systems, housing crises and ecological damage remain unresolved on Earth? The standard answers are familiar.…
Attention capitalism and the battle for the human mind
Before the day has properly begun, before a thought has had time to form in silence, the phone has already staged an entire emotional sequence: a headline that provokes, a video that absorbs, a comment that validates, a post that unsettles, a…
Coherence in a fragmented world from self-delusion to societal resilience
A person wakes up and reaches for the phone before reaching for a thought of their own. Before breakfast, the mind has already absorbed war, scandal, outrage, financial anxiety, medical fear, political contempt, and the curated performances of hundreds…