CHAPTER 4: INTERMISSION I
Halloween 2021 - May 2022
On Halloween 2021 -- two weeks before the IDH's first (and, as it turns out, last) launch window to scale with the Bible school -- some asshat tried to shoot me in my living room.
Then -- for the IDH -- all hell broke loose.
In a city where 2,000 bullets got fired in 2020 -- and little kids were killed not infrequently by gun violence in my neighborhood -- my incident is nothing.
And -- as someone who is open about his (pre-existing; oy vey) PTSD if it helps someone else out --let me just say that, yes, it sucked.
memoir + airport non-fiction + living textbook + pod + doc
memoir + airport non-fiction
AI / DISINFORMATION / FREE SPEECH / PRIVACY
Ran it as an "embargoed" podcast (+ doc + interactive ed platform) from 2018-23.
living textbook, podcast, doc/show
WE PREPPED THIS LAUNCH SINCE '05: 20 YRS FOOTAGE/ASSETS
Ran it as an "embargoed" podcast (+ doc + interactive ed platform) from 2018-23.
platforms (manhattan project)
platforms (manhattan project)
It's also a "plug and play" multi-industry "showrunning system"
designed to scale nationally,
establish policy systems for AI,
& netwok millions: students+citizens+artists+
lawyers.
CO-FOUNDER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Internationally-recognized
free speech art collective
started at one of the "wokeset" colleges in America.
THANK YOU TO PROF. MARK BERKSON
(namesake of FIRE's "courageous colleague" award)
for acknowledging our solution to the college free speech crisis (at the Hamline Mitchell law symposium, with Nadine Strossen).
CO-FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Started when I became a 1A "diversity hire" at a MAGA Bible college. Only major AI think tank that uses the First Amend as its aligment principle.
CHAPTER 2: AI AND ALGORITHMS
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2021
The Minneapolis Facial Recognition Ban
Strategicc partner on historic bipartisan initiative for our city.
CIVIC FORUMS and ARTS EXHIBITIONS
“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”
Juried International Art Exhibition and Community Education Event. Minneapolis, MN and Online:
February 2021
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Northeast Sculpture Gallery, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN).
EDUCATION: K-CEO
- Netflix's Coded Bias, ADL, and Bytes Media: Interactive high school AI curricula.
- SXSW EDU (jury + online vote)
- Trainings/Workshops: American, Iowa, and Nebraska Bar Associations; Indiana Univ.; MN Legal Rights Center;
INTRODUCTION: WELCOME TO POST-DIGITAL AMERICA
September 11, 2001 + September 2018
This is a crisis of code, culture, and constitutional law. You have to "align" (fancy word for fix) all of it at the same time: Tech + people
The solution is 2,000 years old, dead-neutral, monkey-simple, and if AI had happened in the 90s, it would have been your 9th grade English homework (tbh).
The punchline?
We were 20 years early because we used comedians (since 2005) and pop culture to predict and
fix 2026's AI, disinformation, and free speech crisis.