Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025 (James Manso/WWD)
https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/quince-10-1-billion-v…
Quick note: About how when tech bros apply the morale from SciFi stories in a way that we find wrong, it's not cause they didn't read the book. It's cause they identify with other characters than you are.
https://tante.cc/2026/02/12/but-they-did-read-it/
I've posted pictures of 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 in other seasons but I took this one on a freezing cold day with blowing, not falling, snow
#photo #photography #cornell
The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: #Climate May Go from Greenhouse to Hothouse: https://eos.org/articles/earths-climate-may-go-from-greenhouse-to-hothouse - uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Jackie Stoudemire:
🎵 Flying High
#JackieStoudemire
https://eccentricdisco.bandcamp.com/track/flying-high
https://open.spotify.com/track/5UTNIhH5tpOM20KFx0y1ci
Atlassian is cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~1,600 jobs, to fund investment in AI and enterprise sales; filing: the cuts will incur $225M-$236M in charges (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/atlassian-slashes-10percent-of-work…
Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/anthropic-closes-30-billion-funding-r…
Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/swarm-aero-seriesa-drone-factory
Disney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/disney-is-rolling-out-its-tiktok-lik…