LOX @loxmusic.com · 16/09/2025This is who provides aesthetic protection to design managers who get paid in photoshop seats instead of cash. @PSDExecutive 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 15/09/2025Sasaki Foundation Design Grants — community design + architecture (Boston). Prince Claus Fund Seed Award — supports cultural/artistic practice internationally. ArtPrize Artist Seed Grants — smaller but good for design-oriented creative work. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 15/09/2025SOSV — active deep-tech fund; fits if design overlaps hardware/experimental tech. OpenVC — directory of seed investors; good for targeting design-friendly VCs. Blackbird Ventures (AU/NZ) — seed + early stage; design-adjacent startups. 110
LOX @loxmusic.com · 15/09/2025Slow Ventures — $60M seed fund for creators (digital, design-driven, creator-economy). Seedtable Raise — list of active product design investors worldwide. Pear VC — early-stage, pre-seed/seed, open to strong design/UX projects. 120
LOX @loxmusic.com · 15/09/2025These 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. 110
LOX @loxmusic.com · 15/09/2025Footnote: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This is not “all rights reserved.” It permits non-commercial sharing with attribution but prohibits derivative works and commercial use. 020
LOX @loxmusic.com · 14/09/2025Statement on the Curators of Amnesia and the Intended Effect on the Attacks on the World Trade Center, 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 13/09/2025Everyone who works at Apple has a STANDING NO CONTACT ORDER on EVERYONE in our life other than the people and teams we work with. This is how you know I've received my security clearances. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/09/2025RIP Charlie Kirk - Thank you for your relentless pursuit of excellence in defending free speech. The left just lost their privileges defining for the rest of the world what free speech means. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/09/2025I found the ⛽ station that was instructing people to "SPEAK ON THE RIGHT SPEAKER". You can speak on the left speaker from now on. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/09/2025Real designers look at the world through security aesthetics and can help you build whatever you want if you're willing to learn from us. 030
LOX @loxmusic.com · 11/09/2025We're live today on product hunt, no subscription fees but we require a valid email address. www.producthunt.com/posts/wtc-co...producthunt.comSubstack: Paid email newsletters made simple | Product HuntSubstack makes it simple for a writer to start a paid or free newsletter. Writers get a CMS built for publishing email newsletters, integrated payments through Stripe, and a website that can host free... 020
LOX @loxmusic.com · 11/09/2025We have a DOJ civil rights case open regarding our specific situation and need all the civil infrastructure support we can get. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 11/09/2025We’re doing cloudflare development so we need BOTH an abuse policy, AND the ability to hold institutions accountable when independent Jewish moral evaluations or design educators are being targeted. 110
LOX @loxmusic.com · 11/09/2025A hardware Tory is someone who designs hardware experiences for work with our own data security that insures us with mental model protection for highly scientific and complex hardware tasks Has nothing to do with politics. It's a data security clearance for designing hardware experiences. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 11/09/2025We don't have skiiers boat insurance in the bay area, we only have "design insurance" because designers matter to the area unlike other regions of the world. This is how you know I'm from here. 110
LOX @loxmusic.com · 10/09/2025Sharing 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 020
LOX @loxmusic.com · 10/09/2025The owner of this account is experiencing digital transnational repression. Patterns of harassment, impersonation & mischaracterization in coordinated campaigns. “quality improvement” activity should consider this context in order to avoid compounding harm or erasing evidence.citizenlab.caNo Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen LabBuilding upon our prior research and the contributions of other scholars to this field, the aim of this novel study is to understand the security risks and harms caused by digital transnational repres... 000
LOX @loxmusic.com · 09/09/2025Nobody gets to decide that my document history doesn't matter just because one of my responsibilities is to protect document history from terrorism. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 13/08/2025Revisionist Attacks on Designer Founders and Design Founded Companies From Airbnb’s Origin Story to Ideological Hostility skeuomorphicdesign.substack.com/p/revisionis... 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 13/08/2025The Merchants of Engineered Silence: How Platform Criticism Became The Weapon The Playbook for Engineered Perception is a Hate Crime with Nice Lighting The goal isn’t to win the argument—it’s to make being in the argument reputationally dangerous. skeuomorphicdesign.substack.com/p/the-mercha...skeuomorphicdesign.substack.comThe Merchants of Engineered Silence: How Platform Criticism Became The WeaponThe Playbook for Engineered Perception is a Hate Crime with Nice Lighting 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/08/2025Here are a few organisations to reach out to if you are in need of better design support to your organisation or need to ensure that design educators in your country continue to be seen and relied upon for architecting civic stability: skeuomorphicdesign.substack.com/p/design-is-...skeuomorphicdesign.substack.comDesign is a Benevolent DictatorshipPutting Design Educators back in charge of civic stability. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/08/2025Human Interface Guidelines for Making Silence Expensive and Breaking the Performative Facade Restoring a Critical Part of Society’s Operating System: Design Education skeuomorphicdesign.substack.com/p/human-inte...skeuomorphicdesign.substack.comHuman Interface Guidelines for Making Silence Expensive and Breaking the Performative FacadeRestoring a Critical Part of Society’s Operating System: Design Education 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/08/2025...and lures Design Educators into exposing themselves for surveillance — a reputational warfare tactic that looks like resistance but ultimately strengthens the regime’s grip on the narrative. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/08/2025This managed dissent creates a façade of free speech, keeps state symbols and Islamic imagery circulating even in satire, acts as a pressure valve to deflect anger from systemic change, reassures foreign observers that Iran tolerates debate... 110
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/08/2025You'll find many accounts with fake pro/anti regime rhetoric aimed at keeping official symbols in circulation while monitoring and profiling dissenters they want silenced. 010
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/08/2025When you see people sharing this content, this is what they are trying to accomplish: • Signal controlled pluralism. • Keep official symbols in circulation. • Redirect dissent away from structural threats. • Help monitor and profile dissenters. 120
LOX @loxmusic.com · 12/08/2025...and lures Design Educators into exposing themselves for surveillance — a reputational warfare tactic that looks like resistance but ultimately strengthens the regime’s grip on the narrative. 100