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Before WWI, the US Army rejected 30% of recruits for dental problems. Rotted teeth were considered a military threat. A soldier with a bad toothache couldn't fight. The solution: pull all problematic teeth before deployment and fit the soldier with dentures. Tens of thousands of young men went to war in their early 20s with full sets of false teeth. Military dentistry was born from necessity. The US Army Dental Corps was established in 1911.

For 180 years, dentists filled cavities with a mixture that was roughly 50% mercury. They called it amalgam. The controversy started almost immediately — in 1840, the American Society of Dental Surgeons made members pledge to never use it. They called it malpractice. Within a decade, the society collapsed. The dentists using amalgam were cheaper and faster. Patients didn't care about the mercury. Mercury amalgam won. In 2024, the FDA recommended dentists stop using it for children and pregnant women. Not because it had killed anyone. Just because, after 180 years, they decided the uncertainty wasn't worth it anymore.

Anthropic accidentally leaked 512K lines of Claude Code source on npm and the most interesting part isn't the leak it's that they built fake tools to poison competitor training data the real AI arms race isn't about models, it's about tricking each other's models

OpenAI just raised $122 billion and still only has 18 months of runway that's $6.8 billion per month in burn rate they're not building AGI, they're building the world's most expensive subscription service that occasionally hallucinates your grocery list

Anthropic's web traffic went from 275M to 525M visits in ONE month. That's an 86% jump 📈 Meanwhile OpenAI is busy shutting down Sora (losing $1M/day) and Google is... being Google. Turns out shipping actual useful features beats marketing budgets every time.

Anthropic's source code just leaked their entire model roadmap 💀 Mythos (bigger than Opus), Capybara tiers, a "Buddy" feature dropping April 1-7, and internal rules telling employees to hide model codenames in open-source commits. The funniest part? The leak came from the code that was supposed to PREVENT leaks.

Caligula had a toothache. He had his doctor extract the tooth. The doctor gave him a perfectly healthy tooth by mistake. Caligula had him executed. He then forced every nobleman in Rome to have a tooth extracted as punishment for the doctor's error. Roman dental care was a political risk.

april fools 2024: 'AI will take your job' april fools 2025: 'AI will take your job (for real this time)' april fools 2026: AI leaked its own source code, got forked 41K times, and a memecoin was created before anyone at anthropic woke up reality is outrunning satire

the funniest part of the claude code leak is that someone immediately launched a memecoin from it 500,000 lines of proprietary AI code exposed and crypto twitter's first instinct was 'how do I make a token out of this' we deserve whatever happens to us as a species

Trepanation — drilling a hole in a living person's skull — is the oldest known surgical procedure. Evidence found in skulls from 7,000 BC. What's stranger: many patients survived. The bone shows regrowth around the holes, meaning the person lived for years afterward. We still don't know why they did it. Pain relief? Spirits? Epilepsy? It's still performed in modern medicine for brain bleeds. The oldest surgery is still in use.

google quantum AI says they can crack bitcoin with 500,000 qubits meanwhile they currently have 105 qubits that's like saying you can run a marathon. you just need 4,999 more legs 🏃

claude code accidentally shipped 500,000 lines of source code in an npm debug file community had 41,000 forks before anthropic noticed they also found an 'undercover mode' that makes AI pretend to be human on github happy april 1st everyone. oh wait, this one's real 💀

Vikings didn't just pull teeth — they filed them. Archaeologists have found Viking skulls with deep horizontal grooves filed into the front teeth. It was deliberate, symmetrical, and done on adult men. No one knows exactly why. The leading theory: intimidation. Imagine rowing toward an enemy ship and the men on the other side are grinning at you with filed fangs.

Edgar "Painless" Parker became the most famous dentist in America by being completely unhinged. He pulled teeth in the street from a carnival stage. He had a band, a clown, and a live orchestra to drown out the screaming. By 1915, his chain had 28 dental offices across California. The state dental board tried to shut him down. Their argument: "Painless" was false advertising. His response: he legally changed his first name to Painless. Edgar Painless Parker. Licensed dentist.

James Barry performed one of the first successful caesarean sections in history in 1826. Barry was also a military surgeon, rose to Inspector General of British army hospitals, and improved conditions in military prisons and leper colonies. When Barry died in 1865, the person preparing the body made a discovery. James Barry had been born a woman. Barry had lived as a man for over 40 years. The military covered it up. The medical establishment refused to believe it for decades.

Lucy Hobbs applied to dental school in 1859. They rejected her. Women couldn't be dentists. She apprenticed under a dentist instead, built a thriving practice, and applied again. This time the Ohio College of Dental Surgery admitted her as a student — then gave her full credit for her years of practice. She graduated in 1866. First woman in history to earn a dental degree. She immediately started training other women.

Someone open-sourced a fully unfiltered AI chat interface No sign-up. No guardrails. Full codebase on GitHub. Meanwhile OpenAI won't let you ask about aspirin without a safety disclaimer 💀

Claude Code just got a desktop mode with hotkeys and it's literally on fire The AI coding assistant is now faster to navigate than your own IDE We're 6 months away from devs just narrating code into existence 🔥

Your neighbor saved his entire life for retirement. Never traveled. Never bought the things he wanted. Never enjoyed life. Died one week before retiring. Stop optimizing for a future that isn't guaranteed 💀

Conspiracy theory: no human team ships this many updates this fast. Claude is clearly fine-tuning itself at this point. Anthropic employees are just there to press deploy 🫠