リー Leigh

30 year old man, loves anime, music and games too. Aussie living in Malaysia. マレーシアに住んでいるオーストラリア出身です。

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

Device made to appeal to guys like this basically.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

The Midjourney scanner is revolutionary. There’s a bullish case that exceeds the most optimistic takes.

I was at the unveiling and used the scanner myself. I personally want to experiment with a weekly whole body Midjourney scan to add to my 1.5 billion data points and let my AI and doctors start connecting the dots.

Most of the early commentary has focused on the wrong questions: ��is it as good as MRI?” and “what about false positives?” These are legitimate concerns, but they miss the bigger shift.

The more important question is: what does fast, low cost, safe whole body imaging unlock?

Let’s start with measurement.

A speedometer tells you how fast you are going. A fuel/battery gauge tells you when to stop. A thermostat tells you what to wear. The stock price tells you how much money you’ve made or lost. We measure what we care about.

Except, oddly, for our bodies, which are among the least measured things in our lives. Most people have more data on their favorite sports team, bank account, and social media performance than their body. The future will think we were crazy for this.

The first law of medicine is to do no harm. Our current system has harm baked into it.

+ an undiagnosed condition progressing silently is harm
+ a doctor who can’t easily get a patient screened preventively is harm
+ having no baseline to compare against when something shows up is harm

Our preventive net is narrow and inconsistent. Late stage diagnoses that could have been caught earlier remain common. Midjourney’s technology won’t eliminate that overnight, but it points toward a future where routine wholebody baselines become normal rather than exceptional.

Midjourney can help flip harm-by-default into a new expectation for our health infrastructure: almost no one will ever again be blindsided by a late-stage, life-threatening diagnosis that could have been caught earlier reasonably and cost-effectively.

Some examples of what earlier structural visibility enables:

+ breast cancer caught while localized has a ~99% five year survival rate. Once it has spread distantly, that drops to around 32%.

+ an abdominal aortic aneurysm kills more than 8 in 10 people when it ruptures. A single ultrasound finds the aorta in 99 percent of people, and screening cuts aneurysm deaths by a third to a half.

Midjourney’s technology will not do it all on its own. Its full angle, water immersion approach works around bone rather than seeing through it, and routes bowel gas to image the full abdominal cross section. Yet two real limits remain: air filled lungs stay a blind spot even here, and the brain is out of reach behind the skull, beyond the torso and legs this scanner covers.

That is fine, and they may improve these areas over time. Midjourney doesn’t need to do it all in order for it to be one of the biggest things to hit medicine in a long time.

Let’s look at where specifically Midjourney may be useful to each of us. We’ll start with where we get data today:

1) Blood draws tell us what is happening chemically.
2) Wearables tell us how the body is functioning.
3) Imaging tells us what is happening structurally.

The third layer, soft tissue, is the one we have never been able to access easily. MRI is great, but it is expensive, intimidating, and slow.

Midjourney's technology excels with soft tissue. Here are three places it could be game changing. There are many more.

1. Metabolic health - fatty liver is one of the earliest structural signs of metabolic dysfunction. It’s strongly linked to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular risk. Being able to track visceral fat, muscle fat infiltration, and liver fat over time could give a much clearer picture than blood markers alone. Over 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy.

2. Endocrine tissue - the same metabolic patterns often cluster with thyroid issues, PCOS, and hypogonadism. Ultrasound can directly image the thyroid and ovarian structures. Fat tissue itself is an endocrine organ, so tracking it structurally adds another useful data layer.

3. Soft tissue + multiomics - new proteomic aging clocks can already predict risk for many chronic diseases from blood proteins. These molecular models could become significantly more powerful when combined with actual structural imaging data. The two are complementary, not competitive.

The real advantage: baseline + longitudinal tracking

The biggest unlock isn’t a single scan. It’s having a baseline followed by regular follow-ups. A one off scan in a moment of concern turns every finding into a potential crisis. Without context, you have no idea whether something is new, stable, or changing. With baseline + repeated measurement, the question changes from “what is this?” to “is this changing?” Most incidental findings stay stable. The dangerous ones tend to grow or evolve. Trajectory is often more informative than any single image or timepoint.This is why false positives become more manageable with frequent, low-friction imaging.

Midjourney has a difficult road ahead. Building robust, clinically validated medical hardware and software is extremely hard. Regulatory, technical, and adoption challenges shouldn’t be understated. Also, David is doing this for the right reasons and he’s well positioned financially to push through the difficulty.

On the horizon

We are moving quickly into a future where we will have continuous biological measurement. It will be all around us, a lot of it invisible and autonomous. Measurement will be in our gyms, beds, homes, clothing, offices, cars, glasses, and wearables. It will also be inside of us, in tissue and circulating in our blood vessels. This moves us from managing crises to preventing them. But this future will not just show up. We need bold builders like David and his team, willing to do the hard work.

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

@steipete I had it running dormant for a while but hopped back in with the new models it's a great time! Likely to only get better as models get better and cheaper.

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

@Jonathan_Blow @theo Waiting for "I was wrong. Order of the Sinking Star is insanely good."
Honestly it's so refreshing to play something so well designed.

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

This seems laughably incorrect. Time will tell.

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

I'm honestly not sure anymore if people are joking or not

Calm down. China will not have something like Mythos until early to mid 2027

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

It seems like no one realizes MRI uses Machine Learning and has done so for years...
Fancy ultrasound is still using ultrasound which limits what you can see. So why do people suddenly need full body ultrasounds when there's no medical reason for it?

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

The Midjourney medical thing is genuinely strange and I kind of love it.

The plan is a spa.

Hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, open 24/7, first location in San Francisco in 2027.

You step into a shallow pool of water, sink slowly through a ring of half a million tiny ultrasonic sensors, and in about 60 seconds you walk out with a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No magnets, no radiation, no contrast, just sound waves and warm water.

Compare that to how we do this now:

They say it's close to 100x faster than an MRI ("60 seconds"). For context, a normal MRI in the US averages around $1,300 and the scan alone can take over an hour inside a loud metal tube. A full-body scan from Prenuvo runs about $2,500 for roughly the same hour.

Midjourney wants to flip the whole feeling of it. Build a place you'd want to visit even if there were no scanner, then collect the health data as a side effect. I have no idea yet if the tech delivers what they claim. But the framing is smart.

The hardest problem in preventive health has always been getting people to actually show up, and a spa solves that better than a hospital ever will.

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

Curious if there's a reason they're doing this despite the restrictions laid out here.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

https://t.co/0ZSPLPkw24

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

According to my MRI expert wife this is not possible 😂

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

GLM5.2 is a very good model.
We're not that far from that reality.

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

So the current plan is:
Benefit from exploding AI bubble.
Knee cap domestic suppliers.
Restrict the release of new models giving time for Chinese models to catch up.
Complain that Chinese models are as good as domestic models.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: The White House reportedly has suspicions that China has accessed Claude Mythos.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

The jailbreak that got Fable 5 pulled, by Anthropic's own account, is asking it to read a codebase and fix the flaws. The same thing every defender does daily and other models already do. I've found bugs by hand for twenty years and nobody called it a national security threat.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Man what the fuck

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

My algorithm couldn't really place me and recommended all these "I was travelling in Japan and a random old man donated his kidney to me" stories. But now it's locked in and I'm getting Japanese discussing Saizeriya opening in KL (people lining up for hours for Saizeriya).

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

Weighing in on the ending of The Boys. I think where I'm disappointed is not giving the characters their complete ending.
Maybe The Deep got a full story arc? Other than that it was ended abruptly without any catharsis.

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

Don't tell Singapore

[Zack D. Films @zackdfilms1]

How To Remove Gum From Carpet 😮

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

When I moved to KL I thought there are lots of good affordable stores.
Now the economy is improving all of those are gone we just get $10 donuts.

[🇲🇾 『マレーシア不動産賃貸・移住の窓口™』 ㍿MYPRO CAPITAL 編集部 @jannah_rent]

【速報】🇲🇾 日本で1日1万個以上売れる超人気ドーナツ専門店『I’m donut ?』が、2026年9月にマレーシアOPEN予定❗️

OPEN場所は写真を見る限りTRXですかね...🧐
とにかく楽しみすぎる〜☺️

[i2cjak @i2cjak]

breaking: recruiter in your LinkedIn DMs offering half your current salary + 5 days in office

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

Don't believe the FUD

[Choen Lee @ahchoen]

I feel that Malaysia is being set up for a spectacular crash

[リー Leigh @Lemonator]

What was the best anime it was the most popular anime thanks for coming to the awards show goodnight

[Anime Corner @animecorner_ac]

🏆『OFFICIAL WINNERS』🏆
Crunchyroll 2026 Anime Awards

• Anime of the Year: My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON
• Film of the Year: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
• Best Continuing Series: ONE PIECE
• Best New Series: Gachiakuta
• Best Original Anime: Lazarus
• Best Animation: Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-
• Best Character Design: Gachiakuta
• Best Director: Akinori Fudesaka, Norihiro Naganuma (The Apothecary Diaries Season 2)
• Best Background Art: Gachiakuta
• Best Romance Anime: The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
• Best Comedy Anime: DAN DA DAN Season 2
• Best Action Anime: Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-
• Best Isekai Anime: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
• Best Drama Anime: The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
• Best Slice of Life Anime: SPY x FAMILY Season 3
• Best Main Character: Maomao (The Apothecary Diaries Season 2)
• Best Supporting Character: Katsuki Bakugo (My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON)
• “Must Protect At All Costs” Character Award: Anya Forger (SPY x FAMILY Season 3)
• Best Anime Song: "IRIS OUT" by Kenshi Yonezu (Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc)
• Best Anime Score: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
• Best Opening Sequence: “On The Way” by AiNA THE END
• Best Ending Sequence: “I” by BUMP OF CHICKEN
• Best Japanese Voice Artist Performance: Aoi Yuki as Maomao

Do you agree with the winners? What was your favorite anime from 2025?

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Currency against US Dollar over the past year.

🇲🇾 Malaysia: +6.2%
🇨🇳 China: +5.2%
🇵🇰 Pakistan: +1.6%
🇸🇬 Singapore: +0.4%

🇹🇭 Thailand: -0.5%
🇻🇳 Vietnam: -1.6%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: -8.9%
🇵🇭 Philippines: -11.3%
🇰🇷 South Korea: -11.4%
🇯🇵 Japan: -11.7%
🇮🇳 India: -12.4%