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Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/hotel-mana…

Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from BPC, YC, Insight Partners | TechCrunch
Canary offers a product suite that encompasses every part of the guest journey, from booking to departure. The company offers services that let hotel guests check in on mobile devices or text the front desk for help. And it's leaning into AI in serving its customers’ guests through voice, web, and text with an LLM, sometimes offering instant responses.

NFL minicamp overreactions: Bengals in the wrong with first-rounder? Steelers 10-win team with Aaron Rodgers?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

Trying is important. Giving yourself a chance to do it differently is important. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-190-self-compassion-shame-hoarding/

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Jamiroquai:
🎵 King For A Day
#NowPlaying #Jamiroquai
https://overcomingrock.bandcamp.com/track/king-for-a-day-jamiroquai
https://open.spotify.com/track/4klPQOLiUPgwZ3YIWgGJrK

Memo: Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff in the knowledge and information organization, which includes core search and much of the ads organization (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-offers-buyouts-empl…

Google Offers Buyouts to Employees in Search and Ads Unit
Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in the knowledge and information organization, which includes the company’s core search and much of the ads organization, a senior executive told staff on Tuesday. The move comes as Google’s search business faces unprecedented threats from ...

DeVonta Smith happy this wide receiver is on Eagles roster, offers endorsement after strong minicamp

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/devonta…

Self-compassion is one of the ways we can start to break this shame cycle. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-190-self-compassion-shame-hoarding/

Miami-based Guardz, which offers a detection and response service for managed service providers protecting SMBs, raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Guardz locks up $56M Series B for cybersecurity
The new round brings Guardz's total funding to $84 million in just more than two years.

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.