John Loughlin
@rubywhite.com
Technology Prognosticator
* uk > physics > explosions > electronics > california > telecomm > med device
* board Member with PANA https://panasd.org
* immigrant on Kumeyaay land
* uk > physics > explosions > electronics > california > telecomm > med device
* board Member with PANA https://panasd.org
* immigrant on Kumeyaay land
Reposted by John Loughlin
San Diego City Council Public Safety Committee considers Flock this Wednesday, Nov 12 at 2pm. Tell them to get Flock out of San Diego, and explain to them how Flock makes your community less safe.
Comment on agenda item 3: trst.fyi/PS-comm
Comment on agenda item 3: trst.fyi/PS-comm
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
San Diego City Council Public Safety Committee considers Flock this Wednesday, Nov 12 at 2pm. Tell them to get Flock out of San Diego, and explain to them how Flock makes your community less safe.
Comment on agenda item 3: trst.fyi/PS-comm
Comment on agenda item 3: trst.fyi/PS-comm
Reposted by John Loughlin
In Dec, SD City Council will decide whether to spend millions to keep Flock automated license plate readers (ALPR) on our streets.
Flock has created an out-of-control data sharing technology.
Flock deceived the public.
Flock overrode City authorities.
Flock Hall of Shame 🧵👇🏼
Flock has created an out-of-control data sharing technology.
Flock deceived the public.
Flock overrode City authorities.
Flock Hall of Shame 🧵👇🏼
Public Safety Committee Public Comment Form | City of San Diego Official Website
In lieu of in-person attendance, members of the public may participate and provide comment via the Zoom webinar, telephone, the Committee form below, email submission or via U.S. Mail of written…
trst.fyi
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
In Dec, SD City Council will decide whether to spend millions to keep Flock automated license plate readers (ALPR) on our streets.
Flock has created an out-of-control data sharing technology.
Flock deceived the public.
Flock overrode City authorities.
Flock Hall of Shame 🧵👇🏼
Flock has created an out-of-control data sharing technology.
Flock deceived the public.
Flock overrode City authorities.
Flock Hall of Shame 🧵👇🏼
Often heard, rarely seen. Great horned owl outside my window.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Often heard, rarely seen. Great horned owl outside my window.
Reposted by John Loughlin
Every great story has a beginning. Ours started 10 years ago with a question: What would it look like if refugees themselves led the fight for their own future?
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Every great story has a beginning. Ours started 10 years ago with a question: What would it look like if refugees themselves led the fight for their own future?
Reposted by John Loughlin
PANA and partners provided public comment to support the Due Process Ordinance at City of San Diego which passed unanimously. We believe in #protection #democracy and #familiesbelongtogether
Thank you Council member Sean Elo-Rivera and office for putting it forward!
Thank you Council member Sean Elo-Rivera and office for putting it forward!
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
PANA and partners provided public comment to support the Due Process Ordinance at City of San Diego which passed unanimously. We believe in #protection #democracy and #familiesbelongtogether
Thank you Council member Sean Elo-Rivera and office for putting it forward!
Thank you Council member Sean Elo-Rivera and office for putting it forward!
Reposted by John Loughlin
This morning, our Legal Director shared about a father who was ordered deported after missing court—now his little girl faces deportation too. The $1,045 filing fee has been a barrier to keeping them together. Donate to the Emergency Legal Fund: www.panasd.org/donate-to-pana
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This morning, our Legal Director shared about a father who was ordered deported after missing court—now his little girl faces deportation too. The $1,045 filing fee has been a barrier to keeping them together. Donate to the Emergency Legal Fund: www.panasd.org/donate-to-pana
Reposted by John Loughlin
This is what TRUST Coalition's Safety in Unity 2025 looks like! Thanks to everyone who came out to share knowledge about organizing against mass #surveillance and work towards a world where we create our own #safety through unity, rather than surveillance.
September 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is what TRUST Coalition's Safety in Unity 2025 looks like! Thanks to everyone who came out to share knowledge about organizing against mass #surveillance and work towards a world where we create our own #safety through unity, rather than surveillance.
Reposted by John Loughlin
Safety in Unity 2025 with added speakers Sarah T. Hamid (@eff.org) and Pedro Rios (@pedroconsafos.bsky.social) joining TRUST to fight against mass #surveillance in San Diego!
Saturday, September 20 from 11am-3pm in City Heights
RSVP at trst.fyi/su25 for location
Saturday, September 20 from 11am-3pm in City Heights
RSVP at trst.fyi/su25 for location
September 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Safety in Unity 2025 with added speakers Sarah T. Hamid (@eff.org) and Pedro Rios (@pedroconsafos.bsky.social) joining TRUST to fight against mass #surveillance in San Diego!
Saturday, September 20 from 11am-3pm in City Heights
RSVP at trst.fyi/su25 for location
Saturday, September 20 from 11am-3pm in City Heights
RSVP at trst.fyi/su25 for location
This is judicial lawlessness masquerading as emergency relief…The Constitution may say “the people,” but the Supreme Court has decided some people are more equal than others—and they don’t even have to explain why.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/09/s...
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/09/s...
September 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is judicial lawlessness masquerading as emergency relief…The Constitution may say “the people,” but the Supreme Court has decided some people are more equal than others—and they don’t even have to explain why.
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/09/s...
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/09/s...
Reposted by John Loughlin
@sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social, @aftguild1931, @ucaft.bsky.social, UCSD Faculty Assoc, @uaw4811.bsky.social, @calnurses.bsky.social call on SD City Council to turn off automated license plate readers and delete the data that ICE uses to track residents and workers
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
September 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social, @aftguild1931, @ucaft.bsky.social, UCSD Faculty Assoc, @uaw4811.bsky.social, @calnurses.bsky.social call on SD City Council to turn off automated license plate readers and delete the data that ICE uses to track residents and workers
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Reposted by John Loughlin
Join, learn, plot, and dream at TRUST Coalition's Safety in Unity conference. Educate and organize for the fight against mass #surveillance in #sandiego!
September 20, 11am-3pm in City Heights
We're thrilled about our keynote @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social, President @californialabor.bsky.social
September 20, 11am-3pm in City Heights
We're thrilled about our keynote @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social, President @californialabor.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Join, learn, plot, and dream at TRUST Coalition's Safety in Unity conference. Educate and organize for the fight against mass #surveillance in #sandiego!
September 20, 11am-3pm in City Heights
We're thrilled about our keynote @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social, President @californialabor.bsky.social
September 20, 11am-3pm in City Heights
We're thrilled about our keynote @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social, President @californialabor.bsky.social
California Supreme Court Rejects Deference to Regulators on Rooftop Solar Rollback - Center for Biological Diversity. Yay!
Thank you Malinda Dickenson and @lorisaldanasd.bsky.social
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Thank you Malinda Dickenson and @lorisaldanasd.bsky.social
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
California Supreme Court Rejects Deference to Regulators on Rooftop Solar Rollback
Center for Biological Diversity: SAN FRANCISCO— In a victory for renewable energy, the California Supreme Court ruled today that an appeals court should not have deferred to state utility regulators w...
biologicaldiversity.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
California Supreme Court Rejects Deference to Regulators on Rooftop Solar Rollback - Center for Biological Diversity. Yay!
Thank you Malinda Dickenson and @lorisaldanasd.bsky.social
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Thank you Malinda Dickenson and @lorisaldanasd.bsky.social
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
View from (home) office window.
July 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
View from (home) office window.
Photos from NO KINGS, and call to end license plate surveillance.
Photos from NO KINGS, end license plate surveillance
Wow! Over sixty thousand people turned up to protest the Trump administration.
www.pointlomadem.org
June 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Photos from NO KINGS, and call to end license plate surveillance.
Reposted by John Loughlin
@KPBS reports on the struggle to stop license plate surveillance as they give feds access to our locations. This tech isn't safe for public use. youtu.be/JMxUbiSruvM?... via @YouTube
Advocates push San Diego to end license plate surveillance
As the Trump administration ramps up its immigration crackdown, privacy advocates are renewing calls to end a controversial police surveillance program. Expe...
www.youtube.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
@KPBS reports on the struggle to stop license plate surveillance as they give feds access to our locations. This tech isn't safe for public use. youtu.be/JMxUbiSruvM?... via @YouTube
Reposted by John Loughlin
Sign the Petition - Tell City Council: Reject Flock ALPR Funding in San Diego www.change.org/p/tell-city-...
Sign the Petition
Tell City Council: Reject Flock ALPR Funding in San Diego
www.change.org
June 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Sign the Petition - Tell City Council: Reject Flock ALPR Funding in San Diego www.change.org/p/tell-city-...
Reposted by John Loughlin
San Diego's Afghan community fearful after Trump revokes protections timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...
Let’s have a sense of community, not just within our insular communities but within our broader communities. How do we reach out to each other and make people feel safe and at home?
Let’s have a sense of community, not just within our insular communities but within our broader communities. How do we reach out to each other and make people feel safe and at home?
San Diego's Afghan community fearful after Trump revokes protections
Increasingly violent immigration enforcement has been a major topic in 2025 -- and some already vulnerable groups locally are feeling increasingly targeted.
timesofsandiego.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
San Diego's Afghan community fearful after Trump revokes protections timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...
Let’s have a sense of community, not just within our insular communities but within our broader communities. How do we reach out to each other and make people feel safe and at home?
Let’s have a sense of community, not just within our insular communities but within our broader communities. How do we reach out to each other and make people feel safe and at home?
Reposted by John Loughlin
San Diego has already spent millions on Flock's network of AI-driven ALPR cameras. Local coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social is calling on the city to reject this oppressive surveillance system and instead invest in essential services.
San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance
Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city's controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous and costly automated license...
www.eff.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
San Diego has already spent millions on Flock's network of AI-driven ALPR cameras. Local coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social is calling on the city to reject this oppressive surveillance system and instead invest in essential services.
Defund location surveillance, refund parks and libraries www.change.org/p/tell-city-...
Sign the Petition
Tell City Council: Reject Flock ALPR Funding in San Diego
www.change.org
June 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Defund location surveillance, refund parks and libraries www.change.org/p/tell-city-...
www.dreweatts.com/auctions/par...
Worth viewing the video:
youtu.be/HAeci6kCnAM
And the page turning catalog:
online.fliphtml5.com/peuem/mzvb/
Worth viewing the video:
youtu.be/HAeci6kCnAM
And the page turning catalog:
online.fliphtml5.com/peuem/mzvb/
Parnham Park: A Modern Grand Tour on the Jurassic Coast | Tuesday 13 May 2025 | Dreweatts
The auction of the personal collection of the late art aficionado and interior designer, Count Manfredi della Gherardesca, takes place at Dreweatts on 24 April 2024.
www.dreweatts.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
www.dreweatts.com/auctions/par...
Worth viewing the video:
youtu.be/HAeci6kCnAM
And the page turning catalog:
online.fliphtml5.com/peuem/mzvb/
Worth viewing the video:
youtu.be/HAeci6kCnAM
And the page turning catalog:
online.fliphtml5.com/peuem/mzvb/
Reposted by John Loughlin
Gaza on brink of catastrophe as aid runs out and prices soar, groups warn
Gaza on brink of catastrophe as aid runs out and prices soar, groups warn
Palestinians face starvation and severe malnutrition as Israel’s blockade continues, say aid agencies
Soaring prices of basic foodstuffs, diminishing stocks of medical supplies and sharp cuts to aid distribution threaten newly catastrophic conditions across Gaza, Palestinians and international aid officials in the battered territory are warning.
Humanitarian organisations including the World Food Programme and Unwra, which supplies food and services to more than 2 million Palestinians across Gaza, have now distributed the last of their stocks of flour and other foodstuffs to the dozens of community kitchens in the territory that serve basic meals to those with no other option. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Gaza on brink of catastrophe as aid runs out and prices soar, groups warn