Dungeons & Dragons has never been more popular.

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

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

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

TOMORROW: Our new series explores how it’s getting harder to be a woman in America.

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Reading material threaded. Set a reminder ⬇️ twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNGa… No paid family leave. Abortion rights under attack. Burnout at work. Women in America are hitting a breaking point trib.al/0o3gyQw

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

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.

But a new IRS rule is changing all of that.
trib.al/nw7iYDi 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

We’re fighting Covid with faulty data—even after billions of dollars in spending and nearly a million dead, the way the U.S. measures the risk of the virus hasn’t improved much since 2020 🧵 trib.al/eLM20zQ Hospitalizations have been one of the best ways of measuring the virus’s consequences. But the Omicron wave muddied what was once a simple metric. About half the people with Covid who entered the hospital were there for something else

A nasal spray that fights Covid at the point of infection could be the next pandemic game changer trib.al/7pyy4SV A growing cohort of virologists is proposing we spray vaccines up people’s noses rather than inject them into arms to start fighting illness much faster than an injected vaccine can trib.al/7pyy4SV

People who’ve worked with Jack Dorsey say he has a knack for knowing the next big thing. His Bitcoin fascination might be the biggest—and strangest—prediction he’s made yet 🧵 trib.al/YKq4zgP Dorsey is devoting himself to Bitcoin after resigning from Twitter in late 2021, a little over a year after he survived an attack by activist investors.

He often declined to wield power when he was in charge, people say, which explains why Twitter was slow to make changes.

In the Mississippi Delta—the poorest region in the poorest state—the doctors, nurses, and administrators have sacrificed and improvised, month after month.

Thanks to Covid, things are only getting worse trib.al/eq4xVLD When the delta variant emerged in mid-2021, it zeroed in on the poorest pockets of the rural South. By late summer, the Covid death rate in Mississippi was higher than anywhere else trib.al/eq4xVLD

The condiments section might as well be a theater of war.

Shelves of rival ketchups, mustards, mayos, and dressings stand at attention, ready to bombard taste buds. The fight isn’t only about flavor, but branding—and McCormick is fighting to win trib.al/R6V5myb Spice king McCormick wants to make things even spicier in its campaign to conquer the hot sauce industry and make it the reigning condiment.

The seasoning giant’s first step? Acquiring Frank’s RedHot and Cholula trib.al/R6V5myb

[THREAD] A Bloomberg Businessweek analysis of how 15 global cities rank for career women shows each failing in several ways. Here are a few highlights of what we found trib.al/lKjCdt4 São Paulo is the worst business city in the world for working women.

The country is rated as safe by just 10% of survey respondents. Brazil's wide gender pay gap and poor perceptions of gender equality in the workplace also contribute to the ranking trib.al/lKjCdt4

[THREAD] America’s billionaires are giving their fortunes to family while avoiding billions in U.S. taxes. Here’s how trib.al/YP13CYy For years, Nike founder Phil Knight has used a range of legal techniques to ensure his heirs keep control of most of his assets and profit from them, quietly transferring vast piles of money in a textbook example of how the rich avoid taxes trib.al/YP13CYy

If you’re ready to quit your job, here’s how to do it trib.al/WkKyHWK “The great resignation is coming,” says Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at Texas A&M University who’s studied the exits of hundreds of workers.

We asked Klotz what to expect as the great resignation picks up speed. trib.al/WkKyHWK

[THREAD] The people who got in early on NFTs—those who were lucky, true blockchain believers, or both—have still done supremely well. So who are these people? And what are their motivations? These are some of the biggest and most active collectors trib.al/2sDIprv Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile bought a short Beeple video for $67,000 and sold it four months later for $6.6 million trib.al/2sDIprv

NEW: The global middle class shrank last year for the first time since the 1990s, with about 150 million people slipping down the economic ladder. These are some of their stories trib.al/WaawJct About 150 million people—a number equal to the populations of the U.K. and Germany combined—tumbled down the socioeconomic ladder in 2020, with South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa seeing the biggest declines trib.al/WaawJct

THREAD: As depressing as the current situation is, though, the next pandemic—and there will be a next one—doesn’t have to be this bad. These are the five steps we need to take trib.al/LwmCyPE 1. Pathogen surveillance

We need to approach emerging viruses the way we approach terrorist networks: Track them so we can intervene before they can wreak havoc trib.al/LwmCyPE

Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard—sometimes without pay—and struggling to cope with a never-ending lockdown trib.al/HHBt5KS Jozsef Szaller, who planned shore excursions for cruise
guests, was hoping to study photography and dreamed of going shark-cage diving in South Africa trib.al/HHBt5KS

[THREAD] Bloomberg 50: From Guy Fieri to Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, these are the people in entertainment who defined an unprecedented year trib.al/QWmKpE7 Guy Fieri (a.k.a. the Mayor of Flavortown) raised more than $21.5 million in seven weeks to assist unemployed restaurant workers trib.al/nRUq9ky #Bloomberg50 @GuyFieri

[THREAD] The damage caused by coronavirus can be brutal. And the burden of care will weigh on countries for years to come.

We talked with six Covid long haulers about what it’s been like to live with the mystifying condition trib.al/CzB3cQS Jenny, 45 (Oxford, England): “If I was teaching now, I’d be on my feet and using my lungs all day. My main symptom now is this pain in my chest, and it’s really tiring. I just don’t know what it is, and no one else does, either.” trib.al/CzB3cQS

The BTS Army and K-pop stans are beating QAnon and MAGA supporters at their own game trib.al/NIBCCdm In the past few months, K-pop stans have regularly hijacked QAnon and MAGA social media hashtags. They’ve led get-out-the-vote efforts against the president. And many were among the online pranksters who boasted about helping derail a Trump rally in Tulsa trib.al/NIBCCdm