AI ETHICS + DISINFORMATION + FREE SPEECH + PRIVACY = WIN
OUR STORY IS BLACK MIRROR + DEAD POETS SOCIETY BANANAS
- Dr. M's IRLs: Use this link. GoFundMe has a 7-10 day verify delay: We have reporters, (literal) top funders, and national elected officials snooping on us as we speak.
- Vid above = "trailer" (3 min). Cops and CNN cried, so now we try to tell it funny.
- See all press (CBS, NBC, Forbes) on our YouTube.
THE STORY (BUCKLE UP):
Since 2018 – when Dr Aaron McKan “crossed the filter bubble” and became an “echo chamber diversity hire" at a MAGA Bible college in Minneapolis (until '23) – the student & expert-founded Institute for Digital Humanity has been a “unicorn”:
- "Impossible" coalitions w/ orgs programmed to hate each other.
- Award-winning bipartisan AI and privacy solutions.
- Proven fixes for censorship & the college free speech crisis
- Disinformation fighting networks to reunite divided citizens
- Running laps around our allies for pennies on the dollar.
Go figure, even AI (fwiw) now thinks we are the “Last Manhattan Project Standing.” And America’s best shot to avoid civil war and win the 21st century.
- See our verification report and scoreboard here.
- Temporary website (see below: we need some help) is here.
THE IDH HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN THE CHAOS OF MINNEAPOLIS. TWICE.
- In 2020 – after the Bible school hosted the Floyd Memorial – DH pivoted to keeping our city safe & sane: Bipartisan town halls & civic forums, international juried art exhibitions, cross-cultural journalism networks, and raising $26k in mutual aid to make sure our partners were fed. Then we got evacuated and shot at.
- In Jan 2026 – as we tried to re-launch – our city blew up again. We took our websites down (for safety: young people who usually ain’t white) and supported other orgs.
TODAY (MARCH 13): WE NEED A LITTLE HELP
TO STOP CIVIL WAR + FIX AI FOR EVERYONE
We have top funders, national elected officials, and reporters looking. So it’s time to win this football game for all Americans. But we need a quick hand.
- Our “real websites” are huge: 20 years of R and D and “receipts.”
- Our actual database is sprawling.
- No one has been paid since 2023 as we – successfully – navigated NDAs, embargoes, and IP thefts. (Bad apples in partner orgs, go figure, have had "sticky fingers.”)
- We are sitting on podcasts, book pitches, and ready-to-go (free) education/social assets to show citizens how to start working together on the technology dividing us.
Some help today – with our stellar field position – helps us score a touchdown for everyone.
- As little as 5k let’s us get the websites and databases back on.
- Everything else is gravy (that saves time as folks do side-hustles to pay their bills).
We appreciate your support.
P.S. The punchline is that Dr. McKain originally developed these solutions for comedians.
- We are 20 years ahead because he used The Daily Show to predict this dumpster fire.
- Build #1: 1st multi-campus disinfo fighting system ('07; Big 10; Fortune 500)
- Build #2: Free speech art collective (internationally-recognized) at "wokest" college.
- This is not our first rodeo.
- Contact: LinkedIn, Facebook, Insta, Threads
- Temporary website: www.theidh.org
BIG WINS / MOM's FRIDGE
- Minneapolis facial rec ban (partner), SXSW EDU, Netflix doc (K-12 ed w/ ADL/Creighton/Indiana U), Next Team Challenge (NPR, Runner-up); Midwest Legal Academy (Best Paper), Transatlantic Dialogue on AI & Humanity (reported in Forbes).
- PARTNERS: ACLU, Assemblies of God, ADL, Bar Assocs, Big 10 + lawmakers (RNC/DNC) + experts, teachers, artists, lawyers, students (MAGAs --> SJWs).
- TRAININGS: American/NE/IA Bar Associations, MN Legal Rights Ctr/MN Justice Research Ctr, Indiana Univ, Little Earth (MN Dept of Health); Plugged In (ACLU, NE Sculpture Gallery, lawmakers)
- PUBS/AWARDS: Midwest Legal Studies in Business (Best Paper), William & Mary Law Rev; Georgetown Law & Pub Pol, Omaha World Herald, Pop Culture and Theology; International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference (Runner-up: Best Paper)
- ART EXHIBITIIONS: CICA Museum; Twin Cities Zine Fest; Digital Rights Are Civil Rights (int. exhibition w/ ACLU + local lawmakers).
- CIVIC FORUMS: on 3rd rail issues: elected officials on both sides); cross-cultural post-fact journalism (MAGA Evangelicals + African-American outlets/inner city students).
Contact: GoFundMe doesn't allow emails. DM us.
- Dr. McKain: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads
- IDH: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads
- Note: We've been DL since '24: Socials are vague on purpose.
WHY WE'RE THE LAST MANHATTAN PROJECT STANDING
Five obvious criteria. 20 yr head start.
- One holistic method for the whole mess: AI, disinfo, privacy, and free speech.
- Dead neutral and 100% Constitutional: The upside of the “correct” solution.
- Teachable to anyone: K-CEO plus all citizens.
- Useable across all industries and immediately nationally scalable (for the 3rd time).
- Able to reunite divided Americans.
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