THREAD: Bill Gates says climate change is an even harder problem than the pandemic.
He told us about coronavirus vaccines, climate change innovations, misinformation, and how Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are different. Here's what he said trib.al/AKGEzZn
"Any suggestion that a politician helped create the vaccine or it’s faster because of a politician is a very dangerous thing."
Bill Gates on if he's worried about politics hijacking the vaccine approval process trib.al/AKGEzZn
"Trillions is about dollars and cents, but the damage goes way beyond that."
Bill Gates on the cost of fighting the pandemic trib.al/AKGEzZn
"To somehow say that a vaccine is malign or that the deaths aren’t really taking place, it’s surprising to me how interesting that is, and it spreads far more quickly than the truth."
Bill Gates on conspiracy theorists against him trib.al/AKGEzZn
Is Elon Musk the new Steve Jobs? Bill Gates weighs in trib.al/AKGEzZn
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Can Hasbro finally figure out how to monetize the 50-year-old classic tabletop role-playing franchise? A thread 🧵🐉
Hasbro is kicking off a year-long D&D blitz, starting with the release of the #DnDMovie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and ending with One D&D, the next iteration of the game trib.al/seQwF5M
Meanwhile, the game has minted a new generation of dice-slinging fans, along with D&D-themed podcasts, Twitch shows and D&D influencers on YouTube and TikTok.
But Hasbro needs to make more money from the revered franchise trib.al/seQwF5M
A growing number of women are choosing not to have kids, and as a result are advancing in their careers and using their wealth to buy property and travel more bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Single women without kids had an average of $65,000 in wealth in 2019, compared with $57,000 for single, child-free men, according to recent research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. For single mothers, the figure was only $7,000
Parenthood was losing its appeal even before Covid-19 and US birthrates have been falling for the past 30 years. In 1990 there were about 71 births per year for every 1,000 women age 15 to 44. By 2019 that had dropped closer to 58 births bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
YouTube went on a video purge to boot terrorism off its platform and stem an advertiser exodus. But its approach to extremism had a glaring blind spot: White nationalism trib.al/gRCVvuk
In its early years, YouTube, like many of its Silicon Valley peers, took a permissive approach when it came to content moderation. The company wrote a 70-page manual for moderators. “Use your judgment!” suggested one page trib.al/y3Pdx6j
Things changed with the rise of the Islamic State. Members of the militant group began uploading slick, cinematic propaganda to the site — one former publicist remembers dealing with a “beheading every day.”
NEW COVER: Abortion rights under attack, pandemic burnout at work and home, politicians who don't care.
After a series of seemingly non-stop societal attacks against American women, we've hit a breaking point. trib.al/oDHUMP2
Failures by the US government to guarantee paid family leave or to grant working women breastfeeding protections at work are the byproduct of a system that allows for the employment and economic advancement of women without actually supporting them trib.al/TNubxxH
Having a job has become too expensive for many women. Even before the pandemic, there were fewer women in the labor force than in 1999. The most common reason given is that they either can’t find or can’t afford child care trib.al/TNubxxH
Small business owners who use services like PayPal and Venmo for payments previously could, in theory, avoid paying taxes on money earned there if they made less than $20,000.
Under the rule, sellers who receive payments of more than $600 on these services will see that income reported to the IRS. That means business owners—as well as people who periodically empty their closets on EBay—will get a 1099-K from any platform where their income is over $600
Because Venmo and other platforms don’t make it easy to categorize transactions, entrepreneurs say the rule will create an administrative headache. One way to reduce confusion would be to separate payments by platform or account, but that’s not always practical