TECH + HUMANITIES PHD + LAW + 20 YEARS = PROVEN IRL FIXES 4
AI + DISINFO + PRIVACY + 1ST AMENDMENT + FIXING COLLEGE
In 2018, I crossed the filter bubble and became a disinfo prof at a MAGA Bible college in Minneapolis.
(So my team of experts+students could try to fix AI on the DL & stop civil war.)
Go figure, that worked.
Until the city blew up 2x, some asshat tried to shoot me, & is this where I say we're a 20 year Manhattan Project?
PROF + SYSTEMS ARCHTECT + EXEC DIR + POLITICAL STRATEGIST + FOUNDER + COLLEGE DIR + CREATIVE DIR
THANK YOU TO MY ALLIES + CLIENTS ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY
MY STORY IS BLACK MIRROR BANANAS
MULTI-INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP + 20 YEARS R&D + PLATFORMS = UNICORN RECEIPTS
PRESS: NBC, CBS, FORBES, HUMAN LAWYER, OPEN SOURCE, WORLD-HERALD, etc.
TY TO THE REPORTERS, COMICS, and VOTERS OF RICHFIELD
..who took 2 minutes to see that I was using jokes/art to deal with NDA's, IP grabs, and, uh, "bullet thing."
EXEC DIR: INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY (NON-PARTISAN + NON-PROFIT + EST. 2019)
Spoiler alert: A pile of kids + top experts already got the
left+right (+ Christian, Muslim, & Jewish orgs) to partner on fixing AI, disinfo, and higher ed.
READY FOR THE PUNCHLINE?
NOW EVEN AI (FWIW & LOL) THINKS WE'RE THE "LAST MANHATTAN PROJECT STANDING"
Which is hilarious. And not surprising: The IDH was the 3rd build in a 20-year initiative: Top experts + 1000s of students, lawyers, lawmakers, artists, teachers, & citizens.
9/11/2001
9/11/2001
9/11/2001
Started grad school to solve this crisis of:
CODE, POLITICAL CULTURE, & CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
PHD (ENGLISH/RHETORIC)
+ MASTER'S IN LAW
2007
9/11/2001
9/11/2001
BUILT THE 1ST MULTI-CAMPUS DISINFO-FIGHTING PLATFORM
15K STUDENTS with A FORTUNE 500 + BIG 10)
And was promoted (as a grad student) to speechwriter for Time's top University President.
2012
9/11/2001
2012
MY DISSERTATION MAY BE
1st ON ALIGNMENT
"Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era: How to Realign Our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Age"
(Started with the hardest problems: Privacy law, God, and digital political culture.)
2017
THE PUNCHLINE?
2012
INSTITUTE OF AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
(Co-Founder/Creative Dir.)
AWARD-WINNING
FIRST AMENDMENT ART COLLECTIVE
To solve the college free speech crisis. Got an international museum show on our 1st try.
THE PUNCHLINE?
THE PUNCHLINE?
THE PUNCHLINE?
Used The Daily Show to predict 2026's reality crisis in '05. And parallel built everything for comedians.
FACTS:
THE PUNCHLINE?
THE PUNCHLINE?
The humanities -- not the programmers & social "scientists" who caused this mess -- have the actual solutions.
I HAVE A VERY PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS
MULTI-INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION: HIGHER ED + POLITICS + LAW + PR + ART
PLATFORMS & "SHOWRUNNING SYSTEMS"
EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION + THINK TANKS + GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS + ALIGNMENT ARCHITECTURE + ART COLLECTIVES + DISINFO FIGHTING NETWORKS
Is this where I say I trained kids to lap the Ivies and AI/1A big dogs for $300k, in wartime conditions (as homework), to troll 'em for wasting years and $900m?
WHAT I FIX: 1 HOLISTIC METHOD 4 THE WHOLE MESS
THIS IS A CRISIS OF CODE, CULTURE, & CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
20 YEARS OF R&D + GRIND = 1ST + EARLY + TEAMS W/RECEIPTS
This was a layup. We're not geniuses. Just unkillable.
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Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL
Minneapolis and Omaha / mckain.3@gmail.com
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