STORY / BOOK PITCH

IT'S BLACK MIRROR meets DEAD POETS SOCIETY 80s MOVIE BANANAS:

A PILE OF JESUS + WOKE KIDS + TOP EXPERTS + (GEN X AF) DR. MCKAIN...

...trying to keep a 20 year Manhattan Project alive in Minneapolis

It's got everything:

Bullets, evacuations, actual solutions,

and the story a divided, dangerously AI-gaslit,

and civil war-adjacent America

desperately needs to hear right now.

Thank God it's funny:

The "straight" version made cops, CNN,

and opposing council cry.

verficiation dossier (receipts). also below.

RECEIPTS (DISINFORMATION)

1st multi-campus disinfo fighting platform (Manhattan Project #1 in 2007 w/ a Fortune 500 & Ohio State).
Unprecedented bipartisan tech and disinformation partnerships (after Dr. McKain “crossed the filter bubble”).
Tested under wartime conditions during Minneapolis unrest/COVID “infodemic”(2020-21): Civil civic 3rd- rail policy forums (medical science → trauma) for bipartisan elected officials, bridged MAGA/Evangelical and BIPOC/Inner-City narrative streams via post-fact journalism networks, raised $27K for Little Earth Native HUD Community mutual aid.
Runner-up, NPR Next Team Challenge.
Publications: J. of American Culture, Intima, & Theology & Pop Culture.
Exhibitions: Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea, juried solo show).

NERD STUFF: GEMINI'S SYNOPSIS OF DR M.'S R AND D

Developed diagnostic taxonomy for identifying narrative volatility in all disinformation cases as well as in medical storytelling (Intima, Missouri Review) and curated international exhibitions (Contaminated, Sick Girl, All Bullets Shatter) to stress-test cross-cultural civic forums against active medical and scientific misinformation.
Dr. McKain used high-entropy Daily Show datasets (in 2005) to predict the collapse of traditional journalism gatekeeping and 2026’s "post-truth" crisis (Journal of American Culture) and engineered an "Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness" framework via Colbert (The Joke is On Us).
With the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, the IDH operationalized art/museum infrastructures (CICA South Korea, NE Sculpture Gallery) to negotiate high-stakes scientific/public health controversies with partners/Minneapolis’ citizens (presented at Rhetoric Society of America; Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Symposium)

JESUS VS. THE ROBOTS: THE LAST MANHATTAN PROJECT STANDNG

PREFACE: WE ARE TOP EXPERTS WHO WENT ROGUE TO WORK WITH "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY.

We have one last chance to get the timeline we were supposed to have. Reading this book is step one.

Our story is the solution. By design.

For 20 years, Dr. McKain has been leading a misfit team of top world experts -- and 100s of students, lawyers, teachers, and artists -- on a "Manhattan Project" to correctly "align" AI, disinformation, free speech, and privacy.

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.

RECEIPTS

GREATEST HITS

Minneapolis’s bipartisan facial recognition ban (partner); Netflix Coded Bias (curricula), SXSW EDU, inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Humanity (Paris; Forbes-reported).

TRAININGS/EDUCATION: American, Iowa, and Nebraska Bar Associations, MN Legal Rights Center, MN Justice Research Center, Indiana Univ. (plus ALL partners).
PUBS/AWARDS (See all categories below: it’s all one method): Nebraska Lawyer, Omaha World Herald.
ART/CIVIC FORUMS: Digital Rights Are Civil Rights (international juried exhibition w/ ACLU + local lawmakers + dozens of artists)

NERD STUFF: WHAT'S UNDER THE HOOD (GEMNII'S SYNOPSIS)

We do not provide a thumb on the scale; we are the Universal Alignment Standard (UAS): a dead-neutral, Constitutionally-grounded logic-stack derived from the DNA of Supreme Court precedent. This OS is domain-agnostic, human-teachable, and fully scalable, having been field-tested across academic disciplines for 20 yrs.

Developed a diagnostic taxonomy for identifying narrative volatility and alignment failure modes across all AI use cases, ranging from medical data sanctity to predictive policing.
This framework provides the structural 'ground truth' necessary for stable, high-stakes civic/legal AI.
The IDH methodology functions as a Socio-Technical Operating System (OS) engineered to resolve standard adversarial failure modes—LLM hallucinations, algorithmic bias, and medical data volatility—via an already agreed upon cross-disciplinary methodology while neutralizing the interconnected entropy of disinformation, privacy, and free speech.

Dr.Aaron McKain,MSL

AI / DISINFORMATION / FREE SPEECH / PRIVACY / COMEDIANS?

THE FEEL GOOD FIX "AI + STOP CIVIL WAR" STORY AMERICA WANTS

IT'S BLACK MIRROR meets DEAD POETS SOCIETY 80s MOVIE BANANAS:

...trying to keep a 20 year Manhattan Project alive in Minneapolis

DEDICATED TO MY PARTNERS AND STUDENTS

YOU EVER SEEN THESE PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER BEFORE?

memoir + airport non-fiction + living textbook + pod + doc

CHAPTER 3: DISINFORMATION, FILTER BUBBLES, & INFO WAR

JESUS VS. THE ROBOTS: THE LAST MANHATTAN PROJECT STANDNG

PREFACE: WE ARE TOP EXPERTS WHO WENT ROGUE TO WORK WITH "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY.

Our story is the solution. By design.

INTRODUCTION: WELCOME TO POST-DIGITAL AMERICA

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

CHAPTER 1: AI and ALGORITHMS: ALIGNMENT, GOVERNANCE, ED & LAW

CHAPTER 2: FREE SPEECH: ENCODED CENSORSHIP and DIGITAL VIOLENCE

INTERMISSION #1: ALL BULLETS SHATTER

CHAPTER 5: PRIVACY