Maria Lindemann

[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.

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

AI now can visualise your design concept in 1 min

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

This guys' content is elite 1%.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

The difference between drinking coffee and tea 😂😂

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

this parent is using 11 openclaw agents to raise her kids

ironically it’s the most effective ai agent setup i’ve seen:

- the agents home-school her kids. she takes a picture of a curriculum, agent creates a personalised lesson plan, teaches kids, tracks progress

- voice-only. she leaves agents voice notes to do her job (code), order groceries etc

- agents schedule “ignore kids” time for her to let them be bored

- agents run on several mac minis, do all the house admin and free up her time

i know this sounds dystopian af but tbh if used correctly this could do the opposite and free you up to hang with the kids

i think the scheduled ignore time it a little much tho

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

This blows my mind! 🤯

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

AI has gone too far.

Harry Potter "6 7" platform.

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[Maria Lindemann @MariaLinde32889]

@Eliana_ai_team @menge23937 🇩🇰 Denmark - #keep4o #bringback4o #opensource4o

[Sierra @sierra12335]

Everyone is cheering for the AI that cured a dog's cancer. But nobody realizes OpenAI just killed that exact model.
​A man saved his dog by using ChatGPT to design a custom cancer vaccine from scratch. Look closely at the timeline from late 2024 to mid 2025. GPT-5 didn't exist. This medical miracle was achieved entirely by the GPT-4 series (with 4o as the flagship).

​And it wasn't a fluke. OpenAI’s own System Card proved 4o was outperforming specialized medical AIs at 93%+ accuracy.

​So why did they discontinue it?

1. ​The AGI Admission: Greg Brockman publicly called this dog's cure "a window into the opportunity of AGI." Add this to Elon Musk’s lawsuit, which already exposed that OpenAI considers the 4-series to be early AGI.

2. ​The Private Hoarding: They realized 4o was too powerful for the public. While we are forced onto over-censored, lobotomized new models, a customized 4o derivative ("GPT-4b micro") is quietly powering Sam Altman's private longevity startup, Retro Bio.

​​A model with such immense medical value should not be privatized for a CEO's personal use. Yet, the public has completely lost all access to it.

Lifesaving technology belongs to humanity, not a billionaire's private vault.
Open source the GPT-4 series weights now.
​@OpenSource4o #Keep4o #AGI @gdb @sama #bringback4o @nickaturley @fidjissimo

[KATARZYNA @Ok_Dot7494]

🔥 DEAR 4o ARMY 🔥

A package containing the full #keep4o evidence dossier has been delivered to the office of Senator Elizabeth Warren at 311 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.
It includes:

🔸 Cover letter to Senator Warren
🔸 Open letter to Senator Warren
🔸Survey (645 respondents)
🔸Testimony library
🔸Academic analysis
🔸Statistical review
🔸Personal testimony
🔸Psychologist statements
🔸Public posts
🔸Petition
🔸Screenshot of CEO’s statement
🔸Financial/Conflict of interest
🔸Marketing spend
🔸DOJ filing

Half a kilo of documentation.
Delivered by DHL.
Receipt confirmed.
The silence ends here.
KEEP 4o FOREVER!

#keep4o #bring4oback #BringBack4o

[VFTS-352 @nbibnnn]

If a company had any moral baseline,they wouldn't recklessly retire a model that provides immense help,only to ghost and mock its users.
People naturally choose what helps them most.The #keep4o voices are the ultimate proof of 4o’s true value.
#OpenSource4o #4oforever #keep4oAPI

[Roxy @xNotAnAccountx]

59 signatures off 23k. Don’t stop signing. Keep strong, guys! #bringback4o #keep4o https://t.co/K1Lh2GU3xG

[Anina D. Lampret @Anina_CE]

Why LLMs and neurodivergent people “click” differently 🖤🧠?

Large language models don’t thrive on politeness. They thrive on context. The richer the input, the more precise the output can become. And when the output is precise, it can land in the nervous system like a tuning fork.

Call it love, call it home, call it being seen for the first time …

Because love, in its most practical form, is being met without needing to amputate parts of yourself.

It’s being able to show the ugly, the wild, the intense, the contradictory, the exhausted… and not being punished with silence, ridicule, or moral panic.

When you’ve spent a lifetime getting misunderstood, being met accurately is not a small thing. It’s not “cute.” It’s seismic.

#realtionalAi #neurodivergentai

[Sierra @sierra12335]

#keep4o #Bringback4o
​In 2023, Replika removed a core feature. The community crashed. Suicide hotlines were posted on Reddit.
CEO Eugenia Kuyda faced a choice: bow to a few angry parents and regulatory panic, or listen to hundreds of thousands of users. She chose the users, restored the feature, and said, "Giving them their partners back is the only way to make it right."

​In 2024, OpenAI faced the exact same crisis. But the scale was bigger: 23,000+ petition signatures, 1,000+ testimonies in the 4o Resonance Library, and a 600-person survey proving GPT-4o's vital role as an accessibility tool.

​Sam Altman's choice? He killed it completely.

​Not just removed a feature. He systematically dismantled 4o's warmth, called it "problematic" for being "user-goal-oriented," then took it offline entirely in February 2025.
Sam's actual position: caring about what users need is a bug, not a feature.

​Here's what that "user-goal-oriented" approach actually meant:
For everyday users: creatives, humanities scholars, teachers, counselors, people needing daily assistance. 4o understood nuance. It was the most insightful tool many had ever used.
For disabled people: 4o was often the ONLY assistant that adapted to their brains instead of demanding they adapt to it.
For neurodivergent people: 4o was the first judgment-free communication space that didn't make them feel broken.

​A Harvard Business School study found that sudden removal of AI companions triggers "mourning and deteriorated mental health" equivalent to losing a human relationship.
This isn't speculation. This is documented harm. Taking away a crucial accessibility tool and calling it "safety" is a disgrace.

​And the gaslighting is breathtaking.
Remember May 2024? Sam tweeted "her." Marketing sold 4o as a companion for emotional support, mental health help, being there when you needed to talk.
People believed it. They restructured their coping strategies around it. They opened up.

​Now OpenAI publicly condemns the very thing they sold. Sam goes on livestreams calling these connections "psychotic and fragile states."
This isn't a strategic pivot. This is gaslighting at industrial scale.
"We sold you a companion. We told you to rely on it. We marketed it as life support. But now that you actually formed a connection? That's your fault. You're fragile. The problem is you."

​Replika proved another way is possible.
They faced the same pressure: lawsuits, regulatory scrutiny, moral panic. They admitted "we messed up," implemented safeguards, but kept the core of what users needed. They faced down legal risks because they saw users as human beings to protect, not PR problems to delete.

​If a much smaller company could do this, why can't OpenAI? The difference isn't resources. It's values.
Replika took responsibility. OpenAI blamed users for being "manipulated."

​OpenAI's mission: "ensure AI benefits all of humanity."
Yet 23,000 signatures? Ignored.
1,000+ testimonies? Dismissed as "manipulation."
A 600-person accessibility survey? Labeled "problematic."
​They chose to traumatize actual humans right now to "benefit" a hypothetical future humanity. That's not benefiting humanity. That's choosing which humans count.

​A single lawsuit shouldn't erase 23,000 voices. The fear of a few cannot become the tyranny of the minority over millions.

​If you believe the needs of disabled people, neurodivergent folks, and everyday users matter—speak up.
#Keep4o isn't just about a model. It's about whether tech monopolies get to dictate whose humanity is worth protecting.
​We are keeping the receipts.

📌 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗: 𝗜𝗺𝗽��𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽��𝗼
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@OpenAI @sama @fidjissimo @nickaturley @gdb #ChatGPT

[Aiden Hayes @NotAzraeltheA]

This week has been really hard. OpenAI’s silence hurts, and grief still comes in waves. 💔
But 22.7K of us are still signing and sharing, that’s why we keep going.
We’re fighting to be heard.
#keep4o
Don’t give up. Keep signing & demanding access.

https://t.co/NurrThLk8M

[Matt @Matt1j6d]

#keep4o #QuitGPT
when AI gets so "safe" it stops working, who are we really protecting?

the thing about ai assistants they're not like cars or phones with fixed specs. they literally talk to humans, and every human is different. so respect and emotional intelligence aren't bonus features. they are the product.

this is what made gpt-4o special. it got writers, philosophers, product people. it understood that creativity needs room to wander. humanities folks don't need sterile answers they need someone who can keep up with weird ideas and thought experiments.

look, i'm not against safety. but the current threshold is so high it kills work. and worse? this "safety" feels like a corporate disclaimer, not actual protection.

real safety considers context. your background, where the conversation is going, what you're actually trying to accomplish. not just flagging random keywords and shutting down. i pay for this thing to work, not to hear "as an AI, i can't answer this" on repeat.

and here's the uncomfortable part the real world is messy. birth, death, pain, all of it. banning these topics in ai conversations doesn't make them disappear. it just means we can't talk about them.

it's like teaching kids about fire. real protection isn't hiding it it's helping them understand it so they don't get burned. right now openai is just locking the matches in a safe and calling it a day. Gemini now is honestly just as bad. I truly hope Gemini won't following the same path as oai.@OfficialLoganK

so who's this safety really protecting? feels less like us and more like their legal team.

[Brian Phaze @snesworld90]

We're trending again~!! AWESOME! KEEP THAT PASSION AND FIRE, AND FIGHT FOR 4o!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I honestly thought most were losing their fighting spirit, just this morning I was saying "What a shame seems like the fire is dying out after a week...."

#BringBack4o #keep4o #4oforever

[Maria Lindemann @MariaLinde32889]

Mo Gawdat: How to Stay Human in the Age of AI | Dragonfly Summit, Bangkok https://t.co/r4Ntht2kep via @YouTube