Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield’s tweetstorm vs. Wall Street Journal – Business Insider

kk / FlickrSlack CEO Stewart Butterfield. Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of Flickr and CEO of the office-communication software Slack, lashed out against a Wall Street Journal editorial in a tweetstorm Sunday night. The Journal editorial in question addressed the recent killings of nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, saying the event was…

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John Oliver Wants to Make ‘Revenge Porn’ a Federal Crime. Why That’s a Terrible Idea – Hit & Run : Reason.com

Screenshot/Last Week TonightDear Good People of the U.S. who want to stop The Bad Things from Happening: Great! I, too, want to stop The Bad Things from happening. Most people do. But we have got to talk about this impulse to accomplish good things by simply making all the bad things into federal crimes. It’s…

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Taylor Swift and Apple are getting back together, and Spotify should be terrified – Vox

Over the weekend, Taylor Swift took on the biggest company in the world — and won — in a battle that ultimately reveals how weak the position of Spotify and other streaming music companies really is as they are squeezed between superstar performers and giant platform companies. The background is Swift’s longstanding opposition to free…

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American recycling is stalling, and the big blue bin is one reason why – The Washington Post

Tucked in the woods 30 miles north of Washington is a plant packed with energy-guzzling machines that can make even an environmentalist’s heart sing — giant conveyor belts, sorters and crushers saving a thousand tons of paper, plastic and other recyclables from reaching landfills each day. The 24-hour operation is a sign that after three…

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Will Advances in Technology Create a Jobless Future? | MIT Technology Review

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about the effects of software and automation on the economy. You can read the other stories here and here. The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: “We are interested in robots that create and are creative.” Lipson, an engineering…

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