Simon Jones
@simonrjones.net
Founder of digital agency Studio 24, UX design and technology. Believes in creating an accessible web for everyone. Web tech, PHP, content and accessibility. Trustee Cambridge Film Festival. https://www.simonrjones.net/links/
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Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms.
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
The mission is to keep the web sustainable.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms.
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay.
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
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This is remarkably sensible and level-headed.
We need politicians who are willing to explore. Even better, we need politicians who are able to do a retro on what did and didn't work.
We need politicians who are willing to explore. Even better, we need politicians who are able to do a retro on what did and didn't work.
"What didn’t it do? It didn’t save any time. I read every single transcript to ensure we didn’t miss any questions from constituents...I think the potential is real, even if that’s all it is for now – potential."
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
What ‘AI Mark’ taught me about the realities of the new technology
In a future that no one asked for, but many predicted, I took the plunge and turned myself into the first AI MP.
www.politicshome.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is remarkably sensible and level-headed.
We need politicians who are willing to explore. Even better, we need politicians who are able to do a retro on what did and didn't work.
We need politicians who are willing to explore. Even better, we need politicians who are able to do a retro on what did and didn't work.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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More people are getting their news from AI assistants – but can we trust what they tell us?
A new BBC/EBU study finds half of AI-generated news answers with significant inaccuracies.
Stephen McNair reports
A new BBC/EBU study finds half of AI-generated news answers with significant inaccuracies.
Stephen McNair reports
Artificial Intelligence and the news: ‘could do better’
Growing numbers of people are getting their news from artificial intelligence assistants. A new international study raises some concerns.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
More people are getting their news from AI assistants – but can we trust what they tell us?
A new BBC/EBU study finds half of AI-generated news answers with significant inaccuracies.
Stephen McNair reports
A new BBC/EBU study finds half of AI-generated news answers with significant inaccuracies.
Stephen McNair reports
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We're really excited about running our 2 hour making data accessible workshop next Tuesday.
We still have places available.
If you're interested visit our website to find out more.
www.contentdesignireland.ie/training/mak...
We still have places available.
If you're interested visit our website to find out more.
www.contentdesignireland.ie/training/mak...
Making data accessible course and workshop :: Content Design Ireland
Learn how to make tables, charts, graphs and spreadsheets accessible.
www.contentdesignireland.ie
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We're really excited about running our 2 hour making data accessible workshop next Tuesday.
We still have places available.
If you're interested visit our website to find out more.
www.contentdesignireland.ie/training/mak...
We still have places available.
If you're interested visit our website to find out more.
www.contentdesignireland.ie/training/mak...
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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now is a really excellent time to set up a monthly Wikipedia donation if you don’t have one already
This is horrifying, but I’m glad the Wikipedians are safe. It could have been far worse, given that the MAGA fascists have been trying to incite violence against Wikipedia editors, and trumpists are defenders of pedophiles like the gunman. gothamist.com/news/gunman-...
Gunman storms stage at Wikipedia conference in Manhattan, no injuries reported
The unidentified man was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
gothamist.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
now is a really excellent time to set up a monthly Wikipedia donation if you don’t have one already
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The collective term for ladybirds is a loveliness.
Have you noticed that ladybirds have been taking advantage of the dry, sunny conditions to find a sheltered spot to hide for winter? The summer's warm conditions are responsible for this autumn's ladybird explosion.
📸 Mike Selby, Anglesey Abbey
Have you noticed that ladybirds have been taking advantage of the dry, sunny conditions to find a sheltered spot to hide for winter? The summer's warm conditions are responsible for this autumn's ladybird explosion.
📸 Mike Selby, Anglesey Abbey
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The collective term for ladybirds is a loveliness.
Have you noticed that ladybirds have been taking advantage of the dry, sunny conditions to find a sheltered spot to hide for winter? The summer's warm conditions are responsible for this autumn's ladybird explosion.
📸 Mike Selby, Anglesey Abbey
Have you noticed that ladybirds have been taking advantage of the dry, sunny conditions to find a sheltered spot to hide for winter? The summer's warm conditions are responsible for this autumn's ladybird explosion.
📸 Mike Selby, Anglesey Abbey
Other courses from Piccalilli are great so I’m sure this new one on JS will be good! #javascript #frontend #learning
It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.
Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects
piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.
Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects
piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...
JavaScript for Everyone
A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Other courses from Piccalilli are great so I’m sure this new one on JS will be good! #javascript #frontend #learning
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Join our in-person panel discussion on Erasmus+ & Youth Mobility.
🗓Tues 4 Nov,
📍Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Alfred Quantrill, President @yem1.bsky.social
Maria Kurinna, Youth for Inclusive Europe
Prof. Ian James, University of Cambridge
FREE tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
🗓Tues 4 Nov,
📍Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Alfred Quantrill, President @yem1.bsky.social
Maria Kurinna, Youth for Inclusive Europe
Prof. Ian James, University of Cambridge
FREE tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
October 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Join our in-person panel discussion on Erasmus+ & Youth Mobility.
🗓Tues 4 Nov,
📍Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Alfred Quantrill, President @yem1.bsky.social
Maria Kurinna, Youth for Inclusive Europe
Prof. Ian James, University of Cambridge
FREE tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
🗓Tues 4 Nov,
📍Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Alfred Quantrill, President @yem1.bsky.social
Maria Kurinna, Youth for Inclusive Europe
Prof. Ian James, University of Cambridge
FREE tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...
Decamped to my office in town since my home internet is dead in the great Vodafone outage!
I was surprised their website and customer service lines are completely dead too. No message, nothing. Customers just left with no information except national news. Not great.
I was surprised their website and customer service lines are completely dead too. No message, nothing. Customers just left with no information except national news. Not great.
October 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Decamped to my office in town since my home internet is dead in the great Vodafone outage!
I was surprised their website and customer service lines are completely dead too. No message, nothing. Customers just left with no information except national news. Not great.
I was surprised their website and customer service lines are completely dead too. No message, nothing. Customers just left with no information except national news. Not great.
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Looking for illustration and drawing projects. Portraits, children’s books, comic art and editorial illustration just some of the things I can offer.
🎨🧑🎨🖌️🖼️
Shares very much appreciated 🙏
🎨🧑🎨🖌️🖼️
Shares very much appreciated 🙏
Some news shared in visual format (more details in blog post #linkinbio).
Please swipe for a short heart-felt summary of my health and if you need an illustrator/artist please do get in touch!
Thanks for reading 🙏
Please swipe for a short heart-felt summary of my health and if you need an illustrator/artist please do get in touch!
Thanks for reading 🙏
October 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Looking for illustration and drawing projects. Portraits, children’s books, comic art and editorial illustration just some of the things I can offer.
🎨🧑🎨🖌️🖼️
Shares very much appreciated 🙏
🎨🧑🎨🖌️🖼️
Shares very much appreciated 🙏
Starting my morning with @stephenfry.bsky.social, his dulcet tones and some well chosen melodies on Desert Island Discs is rather lovely www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Desert Island Discs - Stephen Fry - BBC Sounds
Stephen Fry is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Starting my morning with @stephenfry.bsky.social, his dulcet tones and some well chosen melodies on Desert Island Discs is rather lovely www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Today is launch day! We’ve been working on Studioworks all year, and I think it’s already the best invoicing platform out there, with the lowest fees, most design customizations, and simplest UI.
If you’re curious to try it out, here’s a referral link for a free month:
studioworks.app/join/chris
If you’re curious to try it out, here’s a referral link for a free month:
studioworks.app/join/chris
Studioworks: Business management software for creative studios
We’re making everything you need to manage your creative studio, from proposals and contracts to invoicing and payments.
studioworks.app
October 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Today is launch day! We’ve been working on Studioworks all year, and I think it’s already the best invoicing platform out there, with the lowest fees, most design customizations, and simplest UI.
If you’re curious to try it out, here’s a referral link for a free month:
studioworks.app/join/chris
If you’re curious to try it out, here’s a referral link for a free month:
studioworks.app/join/chris
Congratulations Craft team, this is brilliant news and I think great for the #Craft and #Laravel communities! 🎉
We announced our plans for Craft 6 at last week’s Dot All conference in Lisbon.
The big news: we’re switching to Laravel!
craftcms.com/blog/laravel #CraftCMS
The big news: we’re switching to Laravel!
craftcms.com/blog/laravel #CraftCMS
Craft’s Going Laravel | Craft CMS
We’re switching to the Laravel PHP framework for Craft 6!
craftcms.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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This time last week I shared this call for 3 small AI-related freelance gigs to do specialist literature searches on AI and worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety. The call's open till Friday this week www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries
We are looking for freelance researchers to conduct literature searches on the impacts of AI on worker safety, infrastructural safety, and environmental safety.
www.careful.industries
October 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This time last week I shared this call for 3 small AI-related freelance gigs to do specialist literature searches on AI and worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety. The call's open till Friday this week www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
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To add alt text or not to add alt text actually isn’t the question.
Simply click "Alt" after you've uploaded your image, write a description and post.
Simply click "Alt" after you've uploaded your image, write a description and post.
October 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
To add alt text or not to add alt text actually isn’t the question.
Simply click "Alt" after you've uploaded your image, write a description and post.
Simply click "Alt" after you've uploaded your image, write a description and post.
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Here’s my Bylines starter pack.
This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…)
Please follow & share.
go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…)
Please follow & share.
go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
November 17, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Here’s my Bylines starter pack.
This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…)
Please follow & share.
go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…)
Please follow & share.
go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
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If you’re having a bad day & feeling down just watch this.
‘I’m a lyrical dance flap’
‘I’m a lyrical dance flap’
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If you’re having a bad day & feeling down just watch this.
‘I’m a lyrical dance flap’
‘I’m a lyrical dance flap’
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This video is really important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This video is really important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
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Farage wants to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain – even for people who’ve lived, worked and built lives here for years.
It’s not policy, it’s cruelty.
Read the Bear’s analysis ⤵️
It’s not policy, it’s cruelty.
Read the Bear’s analysis ⤵️
Farage wants to deport legal migrants in Britain
Reform’s “Boriswave” slogan masks cruelty, cooked-up data, and echoes of Trumpist authoritarianism
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Farage wants to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain – even for people who’ve lived, worked and built lives here for years.
It’s not policy, it’s cruelty.
Read the Bear’s analysis ⤵️
It’s not policy, it’s cruelty.
Read the Bear’s analysis ⤵️
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It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.
September 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.
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My statement on the formal recognition of the Palestinian state.
September 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My statement on the formal recognition of the Palestinian state.
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Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️
This Is for Everyone is available now from thisisforeveryone.timbl.com
@thetimes.com
This Is for Everyone is available now from thisisforeveryone.timbl.com
@thetimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️
This Is for Everyone is available now from thisisforeveryone.timbl.com
@thetimes.com
This Is for Everyone is available now from thisisforeveryone.timbl.com
@thetimes.com
Very much enjoying the Last Night of the Proms. Bohemian Rhapsody, Bill Bailey on Typewriter, the wonderful Louise Alder singing My Fair Lady (and much more), an uplifting new piece by Rachel Portman The Gathering Tree, and brilliant conducting by Elim Chan. Had the whole family up watching it!
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Very much enjoying the Last Night of the Proms. Bohemian Rhapsody, Bill Bailey on Typewriter, the wonderful Louise Alder singing My Fair Lady (and much more), an uplifting new piece by Rachel Portman The Gathering Tree, and brilliant conducting by Elim Chan. Had the whole family up watching it!