J. Nathan Matias 馃Γ @social.coop Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet.
Founder, Citizens and Technology Lab 路 Visiting Scholar, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia 路 Assistant Prof at Cornell 路 Guatemalan-American 路 Co-founder of @transparenttech
Enjoys taking photos & listening to books/poetry on very long bike rides.
@[email protected] once as a teenager, I went camping at Rickett's Glenn state park, near Benton Air Force Communications Annex, part of the nuclear detection and reporting system.
Curious, my friend & I hiked through the woods to photograph the cool dome. Then we heard a voice from inside the fence: "should I arrest you... or give you lunch?"
The lone staffer in the facility invited us up and showed us how all the systems worked, along with decommissioned cold war equipment.