Caryn Waller

@jk_rowling The venn diagram of men who hate boundaries and men who exploit the removal of boundaries is a circle.

@JeffBezos Don’t know why Tom Payne isn’t in the mix. He did reluctant rich boy so well in Prodigal Son and is English. Has acting creds, a great Bond look and young enough to do the younger bond so we have him for decades.

Who’d you pick as the next Bond?

“women like us fall into two categories: dragons and fools. you must make sure they think of you as a dragon” rip Maggie Smith💔 (1934-2024)

Not quite a farewell but a thank you.

@LinkedInHelp It resolved yesterday like magic. No cleaning of cookies needed. I was just about to get scrubbing those cookies and ‘voila.’

@CarynWaller That's not ideal! Can you try clearing your cache and cookies or using a different browser? That may resolve this. Let us know if not! -JC

@LinkedInUK - having problems getting into the site since yesterday - only on my MacPro using Safari not iPhone. Any issues going on?

US only here but I expect in many places in Europe the change will be even more pronounced

Will this video be played just prior to landing on all arriving international flights to the US now? "Welcome to America. Remember 3 things: run, hide, fight. Enjoy your stay! Note this is not the AR15 version. The “I won’t be a victim?” guy? Victims don’t DECIDE to be MURDERED.

It’ll never catch on they said. It’s official, we now have more phones than people. #statistics from @StatistaCharts #morephonesthanpeople

@caitlinmoran Bought. Thanks - looking forward to it

This book is an absolute joy - can't recommend enough. Like a warm, gossipy window into the lives of women hundreds of years ago.

This could be ways of working for so many businesses. My take away. Never be scared to change and evolve.

Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment "In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern Fears about new technology replacing human labor and causing overall unemployment have raged across industrialized societies for hundreds of years, despite a nearly continual rise in both jobs and wages in capitalist economies. The job apocalypse is always right around the corner; just ask the Luddites. We had two such anti-technology jobs moral panics in the last 20 years — “outsourcing” enabled by the Internet in the 2000’s, and “robots” in the 2010’s. The result was the best national and global economy in human history in pre-COVID 2019, with the most jobs at the highest wages ever. Now we’re heading into the third such panic of the new century with AI, coupled with a continuous drumbeat of demand for Communist-inspired Universal Basic Income. “This time is different; AI is different,” they say, but is it? Normally I would make the standard arguments against technologically-driven unemployment. And I will come back and make those arguments soon. But I don’t even think the standand arguments are needed, since another problem will block the progress of AI across most of the economy first. Which is: AI is already illegal for most of the economy, and will be for virtually all of the economy. How do I know that? Because technology is already illegal in most of the economy, and that is becoming steadily more true over time. How do I know that? Because, see the chart. This chart shows price changes, adjusted for inflation, across a dozen major sectors of the economy. As you can see, we actually live in two different economies. The lines in blue are the sectors where technological innovation is allowed to push down prices while increasing quality. The lines in red are the sectors where technological innovation is not permitted to push down prices; in fact, the prices of education, health care, and housing as well as anything provided or controlled by the government are going to the moon, even as those sectors are technologically stagnant. We are heading into a world where a flat screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100, and a four year college degree costs $1 million, and nobody has anything even resembling a proposal on how to fix this. Why? The sectors in red are heavily regulated and controlled and bottlenecked by the government and by those industries themselves. Those industries are monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels, with extensive formal government regulation as well as regulatory capture, price fixing, Soviet style price setting, occupational licensing, and every other barrier to improvement and change you can possibly imagine. Technological innovation in those sectors is virtually forbidden now. Whereas the sectors in blue are less regulated, technology whips through them, pushing down prices and raising quality every year. Note the emotional loading of the interplay of production and consumption here. What do we get mad about? With our consumer hat on, we get mad about price increases — the red sectors. With our producer hat on, we get mad about technological disruption — the blue sectors. Well, pick one; as this chart shows, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Now think about what happens over time. The prices of regulated, non-technological products rise; the prices of less regulated, technologically-powered products fall. Which eats the economy? The regulated sectors continuously grow as a percentage of GDP; the less regulated sectors shrink. At the limit, 99% of the economy will be the regulated, non-technological sectors, which is precisely where we are headed. Therefore AI cannot cause overall unemployment to rise, even if the Luddite arguments are right this time. AI is simply already illegal across most of the economy, soon to be virtually all of the economy.

@MerriamWebster This is what I would edit it to..”your gut microbes produce a variety of small molecules shown to affect metabolism, inflammation and appetite”. Original 19 words. This is 16 words.

Writing Puzzle #62 Spot the unnecessary word! In an NYT article from this week, there's a word that could be cut. "...your gut microbes produce a variety of small molecules that have been shown to affect metabolism, inflammation and appetite.."

@QueenLancashire Alison (Susan Lynch’s character) helps save the day in a redemption arc as a result of Catherine’s continual kindness. I suspect Catherine will die saving Ryan who finally comes good and a new series starts with Ryan as a newly qualified police officer working with Joanna.

@mhdksafa I’m a little late to the party as it’s now afternoon so “Good afternoon”. Hope you’ve had a great day so far.

@caitlinmoran Puns & jokes, fixing & building stuff, absolute support - esp. in an emergency, cheerleading you to provide confidence you may not have otherwise, not overthinking - can be bad when greater thought needed, but also fab when overthinking is detrimental to healthy progress

I feel like every day now, I read/hear something saying "We don't talk about what's POSITIVE about masculinity; what's GOOD about men and boys." So: what IS the best stuff about boys, and men? Honest, celebratory question.

@MaryLuvsLaughin @QueenLancashire Claire or #Harry the ultimate family betrayal this week? Close run thing..

@QueenLancashire Looks like the ultimate betrayal but I'm hoping Claire can justify her choices.

@OxfordDiplomat Sooo many, West Wing if I need to believe in humankind AND smile, Big Bang, Friends, Red Dwarf, or Blackadder for instant laughs. These are all my go to's when ill.

What TV show can make you smile and change your mood almost instantly. No matter how many times you’ve seen it? 👇🏼

Please read; the most important piece I've written. Mass poisoning has suddenly killed off most sea life for 30 miles by the Tees. The govt claims it's natural; ind scientists warn it's manmade. The govt is desperate not to inquire too deeply as its freeport policy is at stake.