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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Flying Lizards:
🎵 Money (That’s What I Want)
#TheFlyingLizards
https://guydavidov.bandcamp.com/track/the-flying-lizards-money-that-s-what-i-want-guy-davidov-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mHx2EsLJlImS6tENOt22o
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…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Jackie Stoudemire:
🎵 Flying High
#JackieStoudemire
https://eccentricdisco.bandcamp.com/track/flying-high
https://open.spotify.com/track/5UTNIhH5tpOM20KFx0y1ci
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…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tara Lily:
🎵 Flying To Kolkata
#TaraLily
https://taralily.bandcamp.com/track/flying-to-kolkata
https://open.spotify.com/track/2UaFQKDdGsbbHwnC7dLXil
Internal doc: the State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, following Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts (Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2026/03/state-offlo…