MARCH 30, 2025

preface: the problem

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

No one has been paid in a year (to keep the IP and brand pure).

And we stayed off the (U.S.) news from election day until now to get our ducks in a row. (And wait out the Dept of Ed and AI Safety movement collapsing.)

The cavalry isn't coming.

America has one last chance to win the 21st century.

Let's do this.

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DR M'S STORY

DR M'S STORY

Table of Contents: Outline for All Manuscript Pitches/Courses/Podcast "Seasons"

preface: who i am
(March 30, 2025)

introduction: the problem
(September 11, 2001)

  • education
  • why I used comedians/pop culture
  • deprogramming postmodernism
  • why we are going public w/ what we know

chapter one: disinformation
(March - June 2020)

chapter two: ai and algorithms
(February 2021)

the intermission: all bullets shatter
(October 31, 2021)

chapter three: privacy
(April 24, 2017)

chapter four: the first amendment / dei
(November 9, 2016)

  • the college free speech crisis broke America/AI
  • academic freedom
  • artistic freedom
  • encoded censorship
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THE ELEVATOR PITCH

THE FIRST AMENDMENT and HIGHER ED REFORM

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

THE FIRST AMENDMENT and HIGHER ED REFORM

and then became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality how to re-unite Americans with a Manhattan Project for AI, privacy, free speech, and disinformation. It worked.

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).

AI I DISINFORMATION I PRIVACY I FREE SPEECH

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, 1A, disinformation,
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.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

introduction: the solution

this is a crisis of code, culture, and law

you have to fix all of it at once

"MANHATTAN PROJECT" SPECSCV, PARTNERS, AND VICTORIES

So to do my job, I had to become

  • CO-FOUNDER/EXEC. DIRECTOR
    THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
    2018-PRESENT

    CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
    THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
    2017-PRESENT

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / DIRECTOR
    SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, DIGITAL MEDIA, AND COMMUNICATION ARTS
    2018-2023

    FOUNDER / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
    DIVISION OF RHETORIC AND DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS
    2011-2017

    SPEECHWRITER / OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    2007-2009

    CO-FOUNDER / DESIGNER
    COMMONPLACE
    2007-2012

  • an objective INDUSTRY LEADER in
    HIGHER EDUCATION

    college reform title belts 

  • an internationally respected ARTIST, CRITIC, AND CURATOR

    i'm way more serious about this than it appears (by design) 
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    an internationally recognized EXPERT in AI, DISINFORMATION, PRIVACY, and FREE SPEECH

    manhattan project specs 

  • a respected POLITICAL ACTOR with a knack for BIPARTISAN COALITIONS and PARTNERSHIPS

    strategic pr 
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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.

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  • CONTAMINATED
    CONTAMINATED
  • IDH TOWN HALL: COVID, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND SURVEILLANCE
    IDH TOWN HALL: COVID, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND SURVEILLANCE
  • Civic Forums and Community Education:
    Civic Forums and Community Education:
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    DISINFORMATION and POLITICAL DIVISION
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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

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  • Minneapolis Facial Recognition Ban
    Minneapolis Facial Recognition Ban
  • DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
    DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
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    AI and ALGORITHMS: STRATEGIES and SOLUTIONS
  • COLLEGE REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION
    COLLEGE REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION
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ART EXHIBITION

ALL BULLETS SHATTER

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DECEMBER 2021-DECEMBER 2022

chapter three: 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.....

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chapter four: 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.

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MY SOLUTIONS
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