Charles B

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[Charles B @BankrolledInc]

I love this App! - Well said!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Bon. Vu que t'as pas l'air très affûté, je vais t'expliquer comme à un gamin de 8 ans ce qui se passe quand on commence à envoyer les gens devant un tribunal pour des mots.

Étape 1 : aujourd'hui c'est Thaïs. Une fille dont tu détestes les idées. Tu applaudis. « Bien fait, elle l'a cherché. » Facile.

Étape 2 : sauf que tu viens d'accepter un truc énorme sans même le voir. T'as accepté que l'État décide quels mots sont autorisés et quels mots t'envoient au tribunal. Pas des actes. Pas des coups. Des mots.

Étape 3 : et cette ligne entre « mot acceptable » et « mot puni », elle est tracée par qui ? Par ceux qui tiennent le pouvoir. À l'instant T. Pas par toi. Jamais par toi.

Étape 4 : et le pouvoir, ça change de mains. Toujours. Le jour où ce sont des gens que TOI tu détestes qui tiennent le manche, l'outil que t'as applaudi quand il visait Thaïs, il se retourne. Vers toi. Vers ceux que tu défends. Vers tes idées à toi. T'auras plus aucun argument, parce que t'auras validé le principe toi-même.

Étape 5 : et même avant la prison, il se passe un truc plus vicieux. Les gens commencent à fermer leur gueule. Pas parce qu'on les force — parce qu'ils ont vu ce qui arrive à ceux qui parlent. Ils pèsent chaque phrase. Ils s'autocensurent. Et ça, c'est la pire censure qui existe : pas celle de l'État, celle que tu finis par t'imposer tout seul, par peur.

Étape 6 : résultat, une société où tout le monde réfléchit à deux fois avant d'ouvrir la bouche. Où une opinion, une blague, une connerie peut te coûter un casier. Ça porte un nom. C'est pas la démocratie. Le totalitarisme ça commence jamais par les chars dans la rue — ça commence par le silence.

Donc non : défendre son droit à parler, c'est pas défendre ses idées. C'est défendre le seul truc qui te protège TOI le jour où le vent tourne.

Mais bon, faut quelques neurones pour suivre jusqu'au bout. Prends ton temps.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Something just happened today that I genuinely did not see coming — and it could change the future of preventive medicine more than anything I've written about on this platform.
Midjourney — the AI company that became famous for generating images from text prompts — just announced a medical hardware division and unveiled a working prototype of a full-body scanner unlike anything that's ever existed.
It's called the Midjourney Scanner. And it works like this.
You step into a shallow pool of water. You stand on a platform that slowly descends — about two inches per second — through a ring containing roughly half a million tiny ultrasonic transducers, each the size of a grain of sand. Every one of them acts as both a speaker and a microphone, sending ultrasonic waves through your body from every angle and recording what comes back.
60 seconds later, you step out. The scan is done.
No radiation. No magnets. No claustrophobia. No IV contrast. Just sound, water, and an almost incomprehensible amount of computing power — roughly 2 petaflops processing 17 gigabytes per second of raw acoustic data — reconstructing a 3D map of your entire internal anatomy down to half a millimeter resolution.
Organs. Tissues. Blood vessels. Bones. Muscle. Fat distribution. All segmented by AI in real time.
As a cardiologist who has spent months writing about how the standard screening playbook misses the majority of future heart attacks — this is the technology I've been waiting for without knowing it existed.
Here's why this matters for the future of your heart.
Right now, getting a detailed look inside your cardiovascular system requires either a CT scan (radiation), an MRI (magnets, claustrophobia, 45-60 minutes, $1,000+), or a coronary CT angiogram (radiation, IV contrast, limited availability). These are powerful tools. I order them regularly and they save lives.
But they're reactive. You get them when something is already suspected. They're expensive. They're uncomfortable. And for most people, they happen once — maybe twice — in a lifetime.
Imagine instead: a 60-second scan with no radiation that you could repeat monthly or quarterly. Tracking cardiac structure over time. Watching body composition shift. Detecting changes in organ size, fluid distribution, or vascular architecture before symptoms ever develop. Building a longitudinal dataset of YOUR body that AI can analyze for patterns no single snapshot would reveal.
That's what Midjourney is building toward.
The company plans 50,000 scanners worldwide over six years, with capacity for a billion scans per month. The first location — the "Midjourney Spa" in San Francisco — opens at the end of 2027 with 10 scanners alongside saunas, cold plunges, and a gym. The scan costs a few dollars. The experience is designed to feel like wellness, not medicine.
The technology is built on Butterfly Network's ultrasound-on-chip platform — 40 modules per scanner — combined with Midjourney's own AI segmentation and reconstruction stack. David Holz, the founder, claims the system aims for image quality comparable to MRI in many aspects but at nearly 100x the speed with zero radiation.
Now the caveats — because I'm a physician and the caveats matter enormously.
This is a Gen 1 prototype. About a dozen people have been scanned so far. Current scan time is actually closer to 20 minutes, not 60 seconds — the system is bottlenecked by bandwidth and reconstruction algorithms. The 60-second target is aspirational for future hardware generations.
It is not FDA-cleared for diagnostic use. Midjourney is starting with body composition maps — a category below diagnostic imaging in the regulatory hierarchy. The path from "beautiful 3D body scans" to "clinically validated diagnostic tool that your cardiologist can act on" runs through years of clinical trials, comparative studies against MRI and CT gold standards, and FDA review.
No independent clinical validation has been published. The imaging claims come from Midjourney's own demonstrations. Comparative data against established modalities does not yet exist.
And the privacy implications of full-body internal scans at planetary scale — a billion scans per month — is a conversation that hasn't even started yet.
So I want to be precise. This is not ready for clinical medicine today. It may not be ready for years. Many ambitious medical hardware projects have failed in the gap between prototype and product.
But.
The fact that a working prototype exists — producing real segmented 3D anatomy from sound waves and compute alone — means the physics works. The engineering works. The question is no longer "is this possible" but "how fast can it be validated and scaled."
And if it is validated — if the resolution holds up against MRI, if the AI segmentation proves reliable, if the regulatory path clears — then what we're looking at is the most significant new imaging modality in 50 years.
For my entire career, preventive cardiology has been limited by the fact that seeing inside the body is expensive, slow, uncomfortable, and infrequent. We catch disease late because we image rarely. We image rarely because imaging is hard.
A 60-second, no-radiation, spa-based full-body scan that costs a few dollars would demolish every one of those barriers.
I've written about AI detecting inflamed arteries. About gene editing curing cholesterol. About GLP-1 drugs rewriting metabolic medicine. About cellular reprogramming reversing aging.
This is the missing piece: the ability to see inside every human body, routinely, safely, and affordably — so all of those interventions can be deployed before the disease arrives instead of after.
The company that taught AI to generate images from imagination just built a machine that generates images from the human body.
The future of medicine showed up today from the last place anyone expected.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸 @BarronTNews_]

🚨 JUST IN: Vice President JD Vance is stepping up at the White House today and filling in for Karoline Leavitt as press secretary at 11AM, and honestly this is the kind of rotation that makes politics fun again.

JD absolutely crushed it last time because he does not walk into that room scared of the media, he walks in ready for the fight, ready with facts, ready with confidence, and ready to remind every reporter in that room that the Trump White House is not there to be bullied by the same press corps that spent years lying to Americans.

Karoline has been a machine at the podium, but JD behind that microphone is a different kind of entertainment because he can take their fake outrage, flip it back on them, and make the entire room look ridiculous without even raising his voice.

Now the only question is simple:

Is Marco next in the rotation after JD? 🤣🇺🇸

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 BREAKING: Arkansas combat veteran Aaron Spencer just won the Republican primary for Lonoke County Sheriff after previously being arrested for killing the man accused of r*ping his 14 year old daughter. He just defeated the very sheriff who put him in cuffs. Voters sent a loud message and now he says he’s ready to clean up the county.

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 WOW! JD Vance just said LOUD AND CLEAR that we are NO LONGER pretending that "America First" includes ANY other country

"[A Ukrainian-American] was sticking his finger in my face saying 'you need to support my country!'"

"I said, 'sir, with all due respect, if you're an American, your country is the United States of America—NOT a place that you immigrated from.'"

"Whether your family's been here for 300 years or one second, to be an American means to look out for Americans FIRST — and that's the perspective we have to take to our immigration policy."

[Charles B @BankrolledInc]

@Artemisfornow Agreed.... !

[Charles B @BankrolledInc]

@benonwine Because they are mostly captured and indoctrination has been established a long time. Also the competition requires effort from voters. That's why I'm at sea an not in the UK. The whole establishment has to collapse first before things change.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Every single Media Outlet that has been SILENT after the publication of Rupert Lowe’s Inquiry is COMPLICIT

If it wasn’t for the X Platform…the World WOULD NOT KNOW about these ATROCITIES

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

JD Vance just gave the clearest breakdown of the Trump vs. Obama Iran deal distinction I've heard.

Here it is — the Gulf State test:

The Gulf Coast Coalition loves this deal.
They hated the Obama deal.

Why?

They thought Obama made Iran stronger.
They think Trump makes Iran weaker.

Vance: "They know more about this, and they have more to lose than anybody, including the USA. So I trust their judgment."

The negotiating position:

Obama in 2015: Iran has a sophisticated nuclear program. Let's bribe them with American money to stop it.

Trump in 2026: We already destroyed your nuclear program. Promise not to rebuild it, and you get some sanctions relief.

One is negotiating from fear.
The other is negotiating from rubble.

The substance:

"The Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment, ours will not."

"The Obama deal allowed the accumulation of stockpiled weapons-grade material, ours is actually leading to the destruction of that stockpile of enriched material."

"The Obama deal gave them over a billion dollars of American money. This deal gives them $0 of American money."

Bottom line from @JDVance:

"We're coming at it from a position of strength, and the fact that our gulf coast partners love this deal."

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump personally supports retired US Marine James Capers Jr., 88, and awards him the MEDAL OF HONOR

Incredible moment ❤️🇺🇸

[Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder]

President Trump just personally awarded US Marine Maj. James Capers, Jr. with the Medal of Honor, 60 years after he saved his whole team after being wounded himself in Vietnam.

This is who they say is an evil racist.

They are lying.

[Charles B @BankrolledInc]

@piersmorgan Reading the replies to this retard, gives me hope!

[Charles B @BankrolledInc]

@RupertLowe10 Typical from an organisation with a pdf file problem!

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

VERY interesting.

Trump talks about how he is bringing our chip/semiconductor manufacturing back to the US, and out of Taiwan.

This tells me that Trump is preparing to end US influence in Taiwan. We are getting out of China’s back yard, and they are getting out of ours.

Meaning that Trump and Xi have been planning this for a long time. Back channel deals are in place.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans 99% des cas, quand un Français me parle des Américains, c'est la même rengaine :

→ « les Américains sont pas nos amis »
→ « les Américains font des guerres partout »
→ « les Américains veulent nous coloniser »

La victimisation, toujours...

Et à chaque fois que je parle avec un Américain, c'est l'exact inverse :

→ « pourquoi vous régulez autant ? »
→ « pourquoi t'es à moitié socialiste sans le savoir ? »
→ « pourquoi vous détruisez autant de valeur avec vos normes ? »
→ « nous on veut juste faire du business avec vous »

Il y a en Europe une narrative insupportable, partagée par énormément de gens, qui consiste à croire que les Américains sont méchants.

C'est faux. Et c'est surtout dangereux, parce que c'est l'histoire qu'on se raconte pour ne pas regarder notre propre médiocrité en face.

Voilà ce que sont vraiment les Américains :

→ des joueurs bourrins, qui rentrent dans le jeu pour gagner
→ un rapport à l'argent que l'Européen ne comprend pas : l'argent c'est du sang, ça doit circuler, pas dormir dans un Livret A
→ pragmatiques jusqu'à l'os : business is business. Les guerres d'ego passent après le business, jamais avant.

Un Américain ne te déteste pas.

Il veut transacter avec toi.

C'est nous qui transformons une opportunité en procès d'intention.

Et voilà ce qu'on fait en Europe comment on se tire une balle dans le pied, à chaque fois :

On confie à des bureaucrates le soin d'écrire des lois sur la technologie alors qu'ils n'y connaissent rien.

Zéro.

Et l'output est à la hauteur : affreux, illisible, catastrophique.

On légifère sur un terrain qu'on n'a jamais foulé.

Puis on s'étonne du résultat.

Parce que les Américains, eux, sont joueurs. Ils ne pleurent pas sur nos règles : ils jouent avec.

Et ils gagnent.

Pourquoi ?

Parce que sur un play réglementaire, ce n'est pas le plus vertueux qui gagne. C'est celui qui aligne le plus de cash.

70 lobbyistes par député européen.
50 000 lobbyistes à Bruxelles.

Le top du classement des plus gros dépensiers ? Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Google.

On a écrit les règles. Ils ont acheté la table.

L'Europe n'a pas été colonisée.

L'Europe a designé son propre cercueil et elle a même payé le menuisier en taxant ses propres entrepreneurs pour financer l'opération.

Le pire ? On appelle ça « protéger nos valeurs ».

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

Remember when they wanted to punish us for refusing the poison. @afneil

[Charles B @BankrolledInc]

@Aliceshaw25 snake

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Kimbal Musk explains United States Government wants to pay $1 billion dollars per rocket launch

SpaceX came along and said no, the price is way lower at only $50 million

US Government pushed back and wanted the cost $1 billion dollars per launch

“Government would say, "But we'll pay you $1 billion. We just want you to do it our way." No, but that's the wrong way. You have to do it this way. It's $50 million. We were very happy with that price. The government was like, "No, we don't want that." And we actually couldn't believe it. We're like, "But you must want it for a lower price." Actually, they didn't care that much about price.”

Basically it works like this

Old defense contractors can spend as much as they want and the government will pay that amount plus 10%. That means they have an incentive to make the launches as expensive as possible

SpaceX said here’s a fixed price of $50 million and if we can do it cheaper then we can keep the extra money

This is a much better incentive system because it saves taxpayers a huge amount of money and SpaceX gets rewarded for making launches cheaper

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ».

J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée.

Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques.

Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil.

Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers.

Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984.

Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag.

Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur.

C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire.

L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.

[Charles B @BankrolledInc]

@JohnCleese Maybe they fly flags that use lenticular print to switch from St George to the Palestinian flag, for maximum trolling!