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Michael Darius (@diagramsecurity)
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Honoring memory, provenance and safeguarding design history and building relationships from structural blindness since 1999. Evidence-based, covenantal work in exile. Resisting distortion. TIME Invention of the Year

Friday, 19 September 2025 (Cupertino Electric Employee Abuse Report Form)

Trademark copyright patent infringement submitted on behalf of inventors and designers everywhere who have ever been denied access to their own property and had their life destroyed as a result.

https://blossom.primal.net/d6a711305d9faf7cd53a2ac3fbe35583abb6d166cb40eb394fd749ecadb89f52.mp4

A Royal Proclamation on the Full Nature of Order,

πŸŽ“Doctor of Arts, Design & Applied Sciences

This is who provides aesthetic protection to design managers who get paid in photoshop seats instead of cash.

@PSDExecutive

SOSV β€” active deep-tech fund; fits if design overlaps hardware/experimental tech.

OpenVC β€” directory of seed investors; good for targeting design-friendly VCs.

Blackbird Ventures (AU/NZ) β€” seed + early stage; design-adjacent startups.

Sasaki Foundation Design Grants β€” community design + architecture (Boston).

Prince Claus Fund Seed Award β€” supports cultural/artistic practice internationally.

ArtPrize Artist Seed Grants β€” smaller but good for design-oriented creative work.

Slow Ventures β€” $60M seed fund for creators (digital, design-driven, creator-economy).

Seedtable Raise β€” list of active product design investors worldwide.

Pear VC β€” early-stage, pre-seed/seed, open to strong design/UX projects.

These are the seed funds that protect real designers like me from enemies of cultural work who conduct political hospitalizations and when they can't conduct political hospitalizations they try to invert the narrative to a criminal one...

Sharing this screenshot from the @DesignBayArea app so there is a record that our cultural rescue work is being targeted in communities committed to design heritage

We don't need your bitcoin, we aren't giving out wallet addresses, we have real concerns that require forum.

⚠️ Crisis Communications: Design Educators in Exile: The Forgotten Architects of Civic Stability

The Infantilisation of Design Educators and how we can Recover Societal Levers for Civic Stability

https://skeuomorphicdesign.substack.com/p/design-educators-in-exile-the-forgotten

The aim of Facebook was never to put you in touch with your "Friends" (or like-minded people), it was always to create a weapon that your political enemies could use to marginalise and attack you.