Tootfinder

🥳 New Kitten Release
Housekeeping:
• Updated runtime version to Node version 22.18.0 (latest LTS).
• Removed `--experimental-global-customevent` in node launch command (as `CustomEvent` is no longer behing the CLI flag since Node v19.0.0)
• Renamed `--experimental-loader` flag to `--loader` as the experimental prefix is no longer required.
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Study: endoscopists used to AI-assisted colonoscopies detected fewer precancerous growths after AI assistance was removed, compared to before AI was introduced (Joedy McCreary/MedPage Today)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/coloncancer/116968

Relying on AI in Colonoscopies May Erode Clinicians' Skills
Concerns of 'deskilling' raised for clinicians who use AI in colonoscopies, then go without it

Just like in Nazi Germany...educators get reported and thrown out
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

Non-Abelian Chern band in rhombohedral graphene multilayers
Taketo Uchida, Takuto Kawakami, Mikito Koshino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07366 https://arxiv.o…

Non-Abelian Chern band in rhombohedral graphene multilayers
Moiré flat bands in rhombohedral multilayer graphene provide a platform for exploring interaction-driven topological phases, where a single isolated band often forms a Chern band. However, non-Abelian degenerate Chern bands with internal symmetries such as SU($N$) have so far been realized only in highly engineered systems. Here, we show that a doubly degenerate non-Abelian Chern band with Chern number $|C|=1$ emerges spontaneously at filling $ν=2$ in rhombohedral 3-, 4-, and 5-laye…

Before the Large Hadron Collider,
the same 27 km tunnel housed
LEP: the Large electron-positron collider.
In the early 2000s, the infrastructure for the Large Electron Positron collider was removed and replaced with new infrastructure for the Large Hadron Collider: the currently-running LHC.
After the LHC is retired, going back to colliding electrons and positrons in the same tunnel is an option that should be explored for building a Higgs factory:
not for its …

The fastest, cheapest particle physics path to a Higgs factory
A next-generation collider is required for studying particle physics at the frontiers. Here's the fastest, cheapest way to get it done.

Been to the hospital and had the cast removed.
Should make typing easier.
More pain now than when I first went there though. RSI aggravated by the cast. Thumb fucked up by the cast. Wrist hurts when moved.
Apparently I'm to stretch the wrist slowly and gradually recover mobility like wrist yoga. Physio to come maybe.
Have booked a massage for tomorrow to try and realign my frame, all fucked up by the cast and the sitting around for a month.
Do not recommend fracturing bones in your arm. It's an bad scene man.

I had seven moles surgically removed yesterday because my dermatologist didn't like the way they looked.
So now I have stitches all over my body and I'm not allowed to stretch unduly to prevent the sutures from coming apart.
I guess that's one way to keep me from reaching anything but the lowest hanging fruits.

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum (Rusty Surette/KBTX-TV)
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p13#a250909p13

I took some renovation debris to our local recycling centre yesterday and picked up a bag for small batteries. I like how the design is Halloween inspired.
#Recycling

Cybercriminals are using AI to execute highly targeted attacks at scale, causing people to unwittingly send money and sensitive information or simply open themselves up to theft.
Hackers are now able to rent generative AI large language models created in the underground cybercrime community to help formulate text-based scams.
But just as generative AI is enhancing and scaling social engineering attacks, so too is it giving defenders a leg up.

The hacking underworld has removed all of AI's guardrails, but the good guys are closing in
Fake Taylor Swift ads and malicious QR codes are just some of the newest ways cybercriminals are using AI as the cat-and-mouse cybersecurity game heats up.