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DR M'S STORY

DR M'S STORY

  • preface: who i am
    (September 11, 2023)
  • introduction: the problem
    (September 11, 2001)
  • chapter one AI and algorithms
    (February 2021)
  • chapter two: disinformation
    (March - June 2020)
  • chapter three: free speech/dei
    (November 9, 2016)
  • chapter four: privacy
    (April 24, 2017)
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THE ELEVATOR PITCH

I started an internationally-recognized free speech art collective at one of the "wokest" schools in the country

and then became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

PR and FIXING OUR POLITICAL DIVISIONS

I was the speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year.

And, as a grad student,
co-built the first nationally scalable multi-campus disinformation fighting platform (w/ a Fortune 500).

I have an interdisciplinary phd (and law degree) in putting out the dumpster fire collision of

technology, Constitutional law,
American democracy, postmodernism,
and post-AI education.

I've launched three start-ups to prove my students could fix higher ed, AI, and post-digital
America.


And the last crew almost pulled it off, except we live in Minneapolis, some jerk tried to shoot me, and all hell broke loose.

MARCH 20, 2025

preface: the problem

there's a 99% chance we're the last "Manhattan Project" standing

For twenty years, I've been leading teams of interdisciplinary (misfit) Oppenheimers

-- dozens of top world experts (plus hundreds of volunteer lawyers, students, advocates, lawmakers, artists, and citizens) --

on a very particular AI, Disinformation Privacy, and Free SpeechManhattan project that is now proven to do five necessary and difficult things that no one else seems able to do.

The IDH is the last phase. And the final pieces of evidence that it works.

We are survivors of the post-digital civic collapse of our city. See Chapter One for details.

But after hosting the Floyd memorial, the IDH had to establish an emergency food bank (raising almost $30k for a partner in a food desert), dealt with militias (both sides), the evacuation of our school during the Chauvin verdict, and continued all of our other work while under military occupation.

That's why this is the story America desperately needs to hear right now.

I'm what happens when this dude grows up, gets a PhD, and has a Forrest Gump existence in weird 21st century digital America.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

introduction: the solution

this is a crisis of code, culture, and law

  • #1

    One simple, holistic method for AI, disinformation, privacy, and free speech

  • #2

    Bipartisan, non-ideological, Constitutional, innovation-friendly

  • #3

    Teachable to anyone

  • #4

    Easily scalable:
    Useable across all industries/academic disciplines

  • #5:

    Able to reconnect companies, governments, schools, and citizens by getting them all back on the same page.

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  • I started graduate school on 9/11 to study what happens when emerging technology, postmodern political culture, and pre-digital Constitutional law and civic norms collide.

    It took about five minutes to figure out that it was "bad" and started fixing it.

  • Ph.D. and M.S.L. (Masters in the Study of Law)

    The Ohio State University 2012

    Digital Culture, Law,  & Politics
    Interdisciplinary joint program between the Dept. of English and Moritz College of Law

    Dissertation: "Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era: How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age"

    M.A. English
    The Ohio State University 2005

    Critical Theory: Law & Politics


    B.A. Political Science
    B.A. English
    Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln 1998

    Minors: Conflict Resolution, History, International Affairs

    Graduated w/Distinction
    Phi Beta Kappa

  • I'm Not a Genius. But I Was Trained By A Bunch of Them.

    If they (and their mentees) weren't so humble, we'd all be better off.

    My mentor was one of the top narrative theorist in the world at what was (for a hot minute when I was working for them) probably the #1 school in the world.

    My law prof was the old school ACLU lawyer/executive diector who defended the Nazis in Skokie.

    My other mentor "invented"
    (as a diagnosis) postmodernism.

    My other profs were top in the world for my side hustles. I'm preposterously lucky. I'm exceedingly grateful to all of them.

    #GoBucks

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MARCH-JUNE 2020: THE PANDEMIC

chapter one: disinformation

Nothing encapsulates the IDH's capabilities in disinformation war better than the pandemic.


We were originally located a couple miles from Floyd Square. Our host school -- and IDH students -- held the Floyd memorial, making international headlines. On the ground -- until our evacuation a year later during the Chauvin verdict -- our city/lives were insane.

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2021

chapter two: ai and algorithms

This is the easiest way to encapsulate the IDH's unique capabilities in the fight for our digital civil rights (and sane innovation-friendly AI, and winning the 21st century). Because in just eight weeks we

DECEMBER 2021-DECEMBER 2022

chapter four: privacy and surveillance

It starts when a prominent national privacy group [redacted] sent Dr M a targeted job ad (for a privacy position) with his actual medical history listed as "preferred qualifications.....

chapter 3: free speech vs. hate speech

Since everything I do is rooted in the First Amendment and free speech (literally: every class, talk, paper, and civic initiative)
it's hard to separate this one out.

And the really good stuff needs to be saved for the book.