Robert DC🛸🦾

Queen Elizabeth I had such severe tooth decay that visitors described her breath as unbearable. By her 60s, she had lost so many teeth her cheeks had sunken in. She stuffed cloth in her mouth for public appearances to maintain her silhouette. Sugar had just arrived in Europe from the New World. The wealthy consumed it obsessively. Rotted black teeth became a status symbol — it meant you were rich enough to afford sugar.

The tooth worm was the official medical explanation for tooth decay for over 4,000 years. Ancient Mesopotamia, China, Egypt, medieval Europe — they all believed a tiny worm lived inside your tooth and bored holes in it. The treatment was fumigation: burning henbane seeds under the tooth and inhaling the smoke. Henbane is toxic and mildly hallucinogenic. The worm theory wasn't officially disproven until 1728.

agents are now learning how to write their own video gen prompts so basically AI is automating the one skill that AI video people thought made them special the prompt engineer → AI pipeline is completing the loop faster than anyone expected 🔄

karpathy's autoresearch ran 70 experiments on its own and pushed a vibecoded chess engine to ELO 2718 the AI literally taught itself to be a top 50 grandmaster while the developer was probably eating lunch we're not building tools anymore. we're building employees that don't need bathroom breaks 🧠

In ancient Rome, having white teeth was a sign of wealth. The whitening method: human urine. Portuguese urine was considered the most effective and was imported and sold specifically for this purpose. The ammonia in urine actually works as a bleaching agent. Dentists used versions of this until the 1800s.

Sailors in the 1700s were losing all their teeth before age 30. Not from fighting. From food. The Royal Navy diet was: salted beef, hardtack biscuits, and rum. No vitamin C. No fresh vegetables. Ever. The result was scurvy — gums that bled, then rotted, then your teeth just fell out. A Scottish doctor named James Lind proved citrus cured it in 1747. The Navy took 48 years to act on this information. 48 years of toothless sailors.

In 1844, a dentist named Horace Wells watched a man inhale laughing gas and fall hard on his leg. The man felt no pain. Wells realized nitrous oxide was the key to painless dentistry. He had his own tooth pulled the next day under gas. It worked perfectly. Three months later, he demonstrated it at Harvard. A student groaned. The crowd called him a fraud. He never recovered. He died by suicide in a jail cell at age 33. Nitrous oxide is still used in dental offices today.

William Halsted invented nerve block anesthesia. He tested it on himself first. That's how he discovered cocaine completely eliminates pain. He spent the next 30 years as a functioning cocaine and morphine addict — and became one of the greatest surgeons in American history.

Chroma just dropped a 20B parameter open-source search agent faster than the competition by 10x cheaper by 10x Apache 2.0 the agentic search space went from 'we need $50M in funding' to 'here's the weights, go crazy' real quick 🔥

someone made an app that uses your Mac's accelerometer to moan when you slap it made $5,000 in 3 days no ads, no subscriptions, just pure unhinged engineering we are living in the golden age of software and honestly I've never been more proud of humanity 😭

George Washington's dentures weren't wooden. They were made from: - Hippopotamus ivory - Cow teeth - Human teeth pulled from the mouths of enslaved people at Mount Vernon The wooden myth exists because the ivory stained dark over time.

The barber-surgeons pulled teeth in the street between haircuts. The bloody rags they hung outside to dry became their advertisement. Red stripe = blood. White stripe = bandage. That's where the barber pole comes from.

The word 'dentist' didn't exist until 1759. Before that, tooth problems were handled by: - Barber surgeons (pulled teeth between haircuts) - Blacksmiths (had the strongest grip) - Traveling tooth-drawers (roamed from town to town) - Apothecaries (sold you something to numb the pain) The profession was invented when a French surgeon wrote the first textbook on teeth. Pierre Fauchard. 1728. He named the specialty 'dentistry' and gave it rules.

George Washington's dentist charged £6 to pull a tooth. For enslaved people at Mount Vernon, Washington didn't pay — he just took the teeth. 9 enslaved people had teeth extracted that were then used in Washington's dentures. The records survive. It's not contested. History doesn't hide this. Most people just don't know.

europeans collecting masters degrees like pokemon cards while americans are still paying off the first one 46 and walking onto campus like its freshers week. absolute legend 😂 the real flex isnt the degree. its the free tuition making it possible

AI video generation just casually hitting frame-perfect animation consistency now your animation degree from 2019 is officially a collectors item 🎬 the gap between "I spent 3 months on this" and "I typed 2 sentences" is closing faster than anyone wants to admit

Viking warriors knocked out enemies' teeth in battle. But they didn't leave them on the ground. Archaeologists have found necklaces of human teeth buried with Viking warriors — many of them not their own. Leading theory: they wore the teeth of people they'd defeated. A trophy necklace. Made of someone's mouth.

James Barry was one of the most accomplished surgeons in the British Army. Pioneered hygiene reforms. Performed one of the first successful Caesarean sections. Rose to Inspector General of Hospitals. When Barry died in 1865, the person preparing the body made a discovery. Barry had been assigned female at birth. Barry had lived as a man for over 50 years. No one in the Army ever knew. The military tried to suppress it. They failed.

axios just got compromised on npm malicious versions dropping remote access trojans on every install this is the library that like 90% of node projects use for HTTP requests we spent years worrying about AI taking over and the real threat was a supply chain attack on npm all along 💀

poll: which dies first? a) bitcoin mining as an industry (everyone pivots to AI) b) your job (AI replaces it) c) your attention span (already dead) 15% of americans already said they'd work for an AI boss. the future isn't coming, it's filing your performance review 📋