Robert DC🛸🦾

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 🫠

Your AI agent can now have its own iMessage number 2 commands. That's it. We went from 'AI will replace us' to 'AI is texting our friends pretending to be us' real quick 😂

AI-generated cinema is getting absurd Someone typed 'hunter gets ambushed by furry creature in a forest' and got a movie-quality scene out of it We're maybe 6 months away from a full AI film winning at Sundance and nobody will admit they liked it 🎬

The Waterloo Teeth were dentures made from the teeth of dead soldiers. After the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, scavengers pulled teeth from 50,000 corpses on the battlefield. These were exported to England and used by dentists for the next decade. They were considered premium quality. Demand for battlefield teeth was so high that soldiers started pulling teeth from the living.

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.