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David Millard

@hoosfoos.bsky.social
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Professor of Computer Science @ Uni of Southampton, UK. Hypertext, Mixed Reality, Human-AI Interaction

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano poets.org/poem/student...
Photo of a poem titled "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper", by Joseph Fasano.
 
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
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Silas Hooper @silashooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thoroughly enjoying @hoosfoos.bsky.social's autoethnography on notetaking and augmentation (not automation) with AI at #ht2026. The friction is the point. doi.org/10.1145/3800...
Dave with a slide stating the friction is the design.
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Silas Hooper @silashooper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Okay kids, where's the #HT2026 discourse? Today at the Narrative and Hypertext workshop, @hoosfoos.bsky.social and @drchargood.bsky.social appear to... agree about something? Crikey. Hypertext, genAI and the middle way.
Hargood with a slide about paths and problems in Hypertext with respect to the rise of generative AIMillard speaking to poets, potters and passengers - if and how AI is used in writing.
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Last week on Wonkhe: John Blake argues that the student loan book – a £300bn accounting fiction – is the single greatest obstacle to reforming how England funds its universities
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Silence of the Loans: How Loan Book Fictions Prevent Higher Education Reform
New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Interesting how many people are taking about Backrooms, and tracing the influences and “liminal spaces” etc. and yet how few mention videogames. I mean, Jesus, it’s a first person shooter. Hopefully, it might make people rediscover the Stanley Parable too.
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Blythe Terrell @blytheterrell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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/...
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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...
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LoGaCulture - Locative Games for Cultural Heritage @logaculture.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🌿 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
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Post Xmas terraforming Mars, with new extensions Venus Next and Colonies - let’s Science the **** out of this!
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durhammusicdept.bsky.social @durhammusicdept.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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...
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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 :-)
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Haunted Planet @hauntedplanet.com · 09/11/2025
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
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Dr. Adam Procter @adamprocter.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"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
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Svetlana Rudenko @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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
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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…
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Our Avebury launch last week: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... as part of @logaculture.bsky.social
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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.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Settlers of Catan, with all the trimmings, still stands up with the best of them.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Playing this card each turn, and making *beep de beep beep* noise each time, has kept me entertained this whole game.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Warm Summer evening means Ark Nova in the garden. Wine helps my zoo game.
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LoGaCulture - Locative Games for Cultural Heritage @logaculture.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#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
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Oops, I appear to have gone to #ukge and bought a lot of random board games by mistake :-/
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
All your Ad revenue are belong to us :-(
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
And in other news, asking banks if you could access their vaults would ‘kill’ the bank robbery business.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Well that sucks :-( also, why not check out @gamemakerstoolkit.com which is awesome!
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This is extraordinary, and well worth the watch. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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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 …
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Sciences @sciences.skyfleet.blue · 18/04/2025
Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser
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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.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
With markets in turmoil it’s time to invest in commodities! Today we delve into Clank! in search of treasure. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21...
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Busy Terraforming Mars for anyone who might fancy moving there in the next few years.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Race for the Galaxy in the Pub Garden in the April sunshine. Lost again.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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!
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
😱 I played Diplomacy by mistake!
Diplomacy board showing lots of unhappy people’s pieces
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
My daily quote brought up this slice of wisdom today: "Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life, for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them" - Laura Teresa Marquez As both a parent and a person living in 2025 I endorse this message.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
David Graham’s GDC talk on why he worries about the Death of Art. With GenAI the stakes might be higher than you think. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-i-...
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'I'm worried about the death of art:' What will generative AI cost us in the end?
EA software engineer David 'Rez' Graham issues a stark warning to GDC 2025 attendees.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nothing heralds the dawn of a new technological hellscape more than 6 new episodes of black mirror! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Black Mirror: first trailer for new season offers more tech nightmares
Netflix will bring ‘six electrifying stories’ from Charlie Brooker to the small screen in April with stars including Peter Capaldi and Issa Rae
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Oh www.404media.co/saudi-arabia...
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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
A company founded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Impromptu Isle of Cats. Victory for once, due to the fact that everyone else forgets to collect lesson cards!
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
First time playing seven wonders duel with both the agora and pantheon extensions - makes it quite a deep game. Lost :-/
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is interesting. It’s well argued but totally opposite to my own experience. When our institution changed and Senior Lecturers became Associate Professors everyone breathed a sigh of relief that finally we wouldn’t have to continually explain to international colleagues what on Earth we were.
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Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Very excited to announce MIX 2025 in Bath, England in July - our call for papers and presentations is open
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David Millard @hoosfoos.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ark Nova. Last :-(
A picture of Ark Nova showing Dave losing badly. Again.
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ACM SIGWEB @acmsigweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hello BlueSky! 😊 This is ACM SigWeb (www.sigweb.org) official BSky account. Follow us at Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/acm-... Youtube: youtube.com/channel/UCd7... Facebook: facebook.com/acmsigweb
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ACM SIGWEB | 56 followers on LinkedIn. ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web | The ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web is a community of scholars, researchers, and profes...
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BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com · 22/01/2025
Birthday: BoardGameGeek turns 25 today: boardgamegeek.com/thread/3446039 —WEM
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Happy 25th Anniversary to BoardGameGeek! | BGG
On January 22nd 2000, we began with a simple yet ambitious goal: to create a comprehensive resource for board game information. Now, as we mark 25 years, it's amazing to see how the site has grown int...
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