The IDH Story

This is also the outline -- with key plot points -- for all manuscript pitches, documentary projects, and intro courses. The IDH websites are "living" textbooks: We have many more stories to tell. (And 2TB of footage to upload/edit. )

preface: who we are
(IDH Podcast)
introduction: the problem/solution
(Manhattan Project)
chapter one: AI and algorithms
(February 2021)
chapter two: disinformation
(March - June 2020)
chapter three: free speech/hate
(2018-present)
chapter four: privacy
(Dec 2021-Dec 2022)

preface: who we are and what we do

The IDH's story begins when Dr. McKain crosses the filter bubble and becomes a 'disinformation diversity hire' at a Bible College.

(The 3 minute video above you.)

We filmed nearly all of that. (See the podcast demo below.)
But that's not the start of the story.

For twenty years, Dr M has been leading collaborative multi-disciplinary teams

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

on a AI, Disinformation Privacy, and Free Speech Manhattan Project. The IDH is the last phase. And the final pieces of evidence that it works.

MANHATTAN PROJECT SPECS

DR M'S CV and STORY

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.

introduction / the "manhattan project": post-digital America has two big problems

#1 If you don't know what you are looking at

-- i.e., the long predicted dumpster fire collision of unregulated technology, postmodern American culture, and not-yet-updated Constitutional law (with the colleges and comedians at the center) --

surviving 2025 or AI or disinformation or surveillance or the free speech/DEI mess seems impossible.

It's not. But to actually solve this mess in time (or first to win the 21st century), your solution has to be five allegedly "impossible" things.

ONE SIMPLE, HOLISTIC "META METHOD" FOR (AT ONCE) AI, PRIVACY, DISINFORMATION, AND FREE SPEECH.
BIPARTISAN, NON-IDEOLOGICAL, CONSTITUTIONAL, AND MULTI-FAITH COMPLIANT.
TEACHABLE TO ANYONE/EVERYONE: K-CEO, PLUS THE SUPREME COURT
IMMEDIATELY SCALABLE (NATIONALLY) AND USEABLE ACROSS ANY INDUSTRY OR ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE.
ABLE TO RECONNECT/NETWORK DIVIDED CITIZENS, GOVERNMENTS, COMPANIES, AND SCHOOLS BY GETTING EVREYONE ON THE "SAME PAGE"

No one really disagrees with this: Everyone just thinks it can't exist. It exists. It's 2,000 years old. All the nerds already agreed to it in the mid-2000s.

(AHEM: MANHATTAN PROJECT)

#2 And to scale your solutions, you have to be able to coordinate between industries, academic disciplines, professions, and people programmed to hate each other.

Since that sounds interesting -- and as part of our solution -- the IDH filmed/recorded/documented nearly everything (for a podcast that got stuck in a horrible development deal for five years).

SEE THE IDH PODCAST DEMO

THE IDH STORY: #BURSTTHEBUBBLE

chapter one: disinformation / filter bubbles

disinformation / misinformation/ information warfare / the post-fact society / death of expertise / encoded postmodernism

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 school's evacuation a year later during the Chauvin verdict -- our city/lives were chaos.

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VICTORY HIGHLIGHTS Turned our (zoom) classes into a documentary / podcast hosted a town hall with elected officials on COVID and SURVEILLANCE an international juried art exhibition (that brought both sides of reality together to talk about COVID and mental health and an emergency journalism network (to triangulate what was happening in our city/public health)

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THE IDH STORY: #NEIGHBORS NOT NUMBERS

chapter two: ai and algorithms

employment ai / medical ai / housing ai / predictive policing / social credit scores / facial rec

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VICTORY HIGHLIGHTS helped pass the bipartisan facial recognition ban in Minneapolis hosted an international juried art exhibition and civic forum on race and technology were featured on Nebraska Public Television (with the director of Coded Bias (Netflix) who we would build a high school curriculum with (w/ the Anti-Defamation League and Bytes Media) and interviewed Stanford's Elizabeth Adams (Forbes Top 50 in AI) at our innovative weekly online media law and AI course (with a city councilman and former Assistant Attorney General)

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the idh story: stop acting like robots

chapter three: free speech vs. hate speech

Since everything the IDH does 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.

Because both the left and right -- and the usual allies on the First Amendment --are screwing this up (maybe permanently if someone doesn't fix it or get them to understand fast).

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IDH STORY: PRIVACY FOR ALL

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CHAPTER 4: PRIVACY and SURVEILLANCE DECEMBER 2021: DR M'S MEDICAL DATA IS SENT TO HIM IN A TARGETTED AD (BY A TOP CIVIL RIGHTS ORG) FOR A PRIVACY EXPERT POSITION (WHILE HE'S IN OUTPATIENT RECOVERING FROM THE SHOOTING). YIKES MAY 2022: THE IDH IS INVITED TO A KEY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (REPORTED IN FORBES) JUNE 2022: THE IDH KIDS GO NUTS AFTER THE DOBBS DECISION. DR M'S SISTER ENDS UP ON THE NEWS. AUGUST 2022: THE IDH YELLS AT THE MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL TO NOT SURVEILL ITS CITIZENS OCTOBER 2022: THE IDH IS RUNNER UP (BEST PAPER) FOR ITS PRIVACY WORK (INTERNATIOAL VINCENTIAN BUSINESS ETHICS CONFERENCE) DECEMBER 2022: THE IDH LAUNCHES "PRIVACY 4 ALL PERIOD" TO UNITE PRO LIFE AND PRO CHOICE PEOPLE AGAINST SURVEILLANCE

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The IDH Story

This is also the outline -- with key plot points -- for all manuscript pitches, documentary projects, and intro courses. The IDH websites are "living" textbooks: We have many more stories to tell. (And 2TB of footage to upload/edit. )

preface: who we are and what we do

The IDH's story begins when Dr. McKain crosses the filter bubble and becomes a 'disinformation diversity hire' at a Bible College.

We filmed nearly all of that. (See the podcast demo below.) But that's not the start of the story.

For twenty years, Dr M has been leading collaborative multi-disciplinary teams

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

on a AI, Disinformation Privacy, and Free Speech Manhattan Project. The IDH is the last phase. And the final pieces of evidence that it works.

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

introduction / the "manhattan project": post-digital America has two big problems

#1 If you don't know what you are looking at

-- i.e., the long predicted dumpster fire collision of unregulated technology, postmodern American culture, and not-yet-updated Constitutional law (with the colleges and comedians at the center) --

surviving 2025 or AI or disinformation or surveillance or the free speech/DEI mess seems impossible.

It's not. But to actually solve this mess in time (or first to win the 21st century), your solution has to be five allegedly "impossible" things.

ONE SIMPLE, HOLISTIC "META METHOD" FOR (AT ONCE) AI, PRIVACY, DISINFORMATION, AND FREE SPEECH.

No one really disagrees with this: Everyone just thinks it can't exist. It exists. It's 2,000 years old. All the nerds already agreed to it in the mid-2000s.

#2 And to scale your solutions, you have to be able to coordinate between industries, academic disciplines, professions, and people programmed to hate each other.

Since that sounds interesting -- and as part of our solution -- the IDH filmed/recorded/documented nearly everything (for a podcast that got stuck in a horrible development deal for five years).

chapter one: disinformation / filter bubbles

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 school's evacuation a year later during the Chauvin verdict -- our city/lives were chaos.

chapter two: ai and algorithms

employment ai / medical ai / housing ai / predictive policing / social credit scores / facial rec

chapter three: free speech vs. hate speech

Since everything the IDH does 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.

Because both the left and right -- and the usual allies on the First Amendment --are screwing this up (maybe permanently if someone doesn't fix it or get them to understand fast).

We filmed nearly all of that. (See the podcast demo below.)
But that's not the start of the story.

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 school's evacuation a year later during the Chauvin verdict -- our city/lives were chaos.

Since everything the IDH does is rooted in the First Amendment and free speech

(literally: every class, talk, paper, and civic initiative)