Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org

It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌿 Biotopia is now live at the Natural History Museum of Funchal, rethinking how we engage with natural heritage: logaculture.eu/news-events/...

🎮 Meanwhile, the Closing Symposium explored the impact of #LocativeHeritage beyond #LoGaCulture: logaculture.eu/news-events/...

#HorizonEurope

Post Xmas terraforming Mars, with new extensions Venus Next and Colonies - let’s Science the **** out of this!

Last week, Musicon saw a stunning performance of @hauntedplanet.com's reality art. @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social performed her music alongside Prokofiev and Butterworth's, with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social playing violin and @madshaahr.bsky.social demonstrating dreamlike graphics from an MR headset.

Attending the Future of Text at the Royal Society. Listening to a talk by the Father of the Internet, while the Father of the Web looks over his shoulder. Neither of whom are physically here. thefutureoftext.org/future-of-te...

Absolutely loving The Blue Prince (store.steampowered.com/app/1569580/...). The pacing is fantastic, every play a satisfying revelation. I thoroughly recommend buying a small notebook to accompany your journey - designing the structure and indexing system of my notes is almost as fun as the game :-)

Augmented Reality workshop: “Alice Dali AR” at Botanic Garden, Durham🌿 20 th November 2-3 pm #music #art on a walk #nature www.eventbrite.ie/e/augmented-... 🎵🌺🦋composer @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social narrator @madshaahr.bsky.social @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

"After The Browser Company’s Dia, Perplexity’s Comet, and others, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered browser that actively fights against the web."

dctr.pro/2qo

Gamers are on the field- and Raven is always watching!🪶 “Voices of the Boyne” @logaculture.bsky.social @tcdscss.bsky.social #evaluation @madshaahr.bsky.social #locativeAR

The Shadow of the Machine I have been attending the ACM Hypertext 2025 conference in Chicago, part of which was the Narrative and Hypertext workshop which I run with Charlie Hargood from Bournemouth University. This year we…

Presented my paper The Shadow of the Machine (speculations about AI and the future of hypertext) at the NHT workshop at the hypertext conference. You can find the paper and video presentation on my blog: davidmillard.org/2025/09/17/t... #ht25 #nht25

Avebury stone circle visitors can learn with new games Several organisations are involved in the apps, designed to help visitors get more from visits to Avebury.

Our Avebury launch last week: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... as part of @logaculture.bsky.social

Settlers of Catan, with all the trimmings, still stands up with the best of them.

Playing this card each turn, and making *beep de beep beep* noise each time, has kept me entertained this whole game.

Warm Summer evening means Ark Nova in the garden. Wine helps my zoo game.

#LoGaCulture just presented at #ACM Creativity&Cognition'25! 🎮 Our pictorial paper shows how a digital game can foster inclusive, speculative engagement with Madeira’s natureculture heritage 🌿🌊🦎 #HCI #DigitalHeritage #GameDesign #SpeculativeDesign #RtD #HorizonEurope

A quick game of Akropolis - this game my city is temple tastic. And notice the barracks (in red) at the edges, safely away from the civilian population. As it should be.

Appreciated. It’s a difficult time.

Oops, I appear to have gone to #ukge and bought a lot of random board games by mistake :-/

All your Ad revenue are belong to us :-(

And in other news, asking banks if you could access their vaults would ‘kill’ the bank robbery business.

If a British government carried out the same sort of political attack on Oxford or Cambridge that the Trump administration is on Harvard, the backlash would be so great among media, economic and political elites that it wouldn't last the day.

Trump administration halts Harvard’s ability to enroll international students Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem posts copy of the department’s letter to the university on X

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Well that sucks :-(

also, why not check out @gamemakerstoolkit.com which is awesome!

The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before The documentarian manages to stay calm and polite as guns are repeatedly pointed at him in the West Bank. Then someone shoves him …

This is extraordinary, and well worth the watch. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser The ‘off-the-charts saturated’ greenish hue — called olo — has been seen by only five study participants.

Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser

With markets in turmoil it’s time to invest in commodities! Today we delve into Clank! in search of treasure. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21...

Busy Terraforming Mars for anyone who might fancy moving there in the next few years.

Race for the Galaxy in the Pub Garden in the April sunshine. Lost again.

In honour of free trade tonight’s game is Le Havre :-) Piles of tariff free goods pile up on the docks. It is a time of plenty!