So then I ordered the cheapest fisheye camera lens I could find (49mm wide angle macro, $30) whose smaller lens was just slightly larger than the output lens of the projector. Success! It worked the first time.
(Someone who knew what they were doing might have looked at the focal length and done math to determine what kind of lens was needed. I very much did not do that. But I got lucky!)
I enlarged the various holes to make the new lens fit inside the dome, and got an 82mm to 95mm step-up adapter ring to screw onto the front of the fisheye, to have something I could drill into to hold it in place inside the dome. Then I cut the old electronics housing in half and dremeled out all of the interior greeblies to have a sleeve to slip over the new projector. The rest is duct tape.
I had to open up the new projector to extend the IR receiver into the dome, since, like the old eyeball, it doesn't remember its settings and you have to manually select HDMI on a remote after a power failure.
The image is 16:9 and doesn't fill the whole dome, and it's a little fuzzy on the edges, but for eyeball purposes, it's close enough. Once I get an ethernet cable in there, I'm going to see what tweaks I can make on the image in software to make it fill the frame a little better.
Evidence and admissions demonstrate that the deportation thugs have followed a systematic policy, ordered from high up, of fabricating false accusations of crimes against protesters, journalists, and observers of their actions.
The heatwave in Europe has caused a major crop failure.
Future heat waves are likely to do likewise, but other crop failures will result from flooding, which global heating is also making more likely.
Right-wing Israel extremists seized the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
The concept of "sacred" presupposes some sort of superhuman entity that can impose "sacredness" on places or things. There is no evidence for such entities exist — no evidence that anything is "sacred" except in the thoughts of humans. That kind of Psychosocial "sacredness" clearly does exist; we can observe it. But it doesn't pre-empt the rights or wishes of anyone else.
In general, when some people want to consider a certain object or place as "sacred" and treat it in a special way, I treat it like doing the same actions in the same place for any other reason. I wouldn't object unless there is some specific problem or issue that affects society, or mistreats people other than them, and mostly there isn't one.
"Sacred" places in and near Jerusalem are a very unusual case. Various groups claim various "sacred" spots, for understandable historical reasons, and those claims conflict. A settlement was made decades ago, perhaps by some colonial power such as Turkey or Britain, and all parties have since followed that settlement for the sake of peace, including Israel. However, in the past few decades violent right-wing extremists began using them as opportunities to agitate and radicalize, until they got power over the Israeli government.
There are many reasons to reproach those extremists, and to put them on trial. This assault is one more. In moral terms, they regularly do worse things, such as stealing Palestinians' land,
olive trees, sheep, and houses, jailing and torturing them,and killing them.
But this could trigger a bigger disaster — it seems calculated to stir up war with Muslims who are otherwise inclined towards peace, and to perpetuate and increase the war with Iran.
*[British] Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press.*
*The real aim of [the bully]'s New York Times leak investigation is to punish reporters.*
*The Israeli government is blocking medical workers from entering or leaving Gaza, twice canceling the departure of seven U.S.-based physicians on a medical mission there, according to a group of doctors in Gaza who spoke to The Intercept.*
*Israeli Settler-Soldiers Took Me on a West Bank Tour Celebrating Evictions of Palestinians.*
Deportation thugs approached Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, a Mexican tourist, and terrified him so much that he ran away into traffic and was killed by a truck.
Coronillo had a valid tourist visa, so if our legal system were functioning properly he should not have felt threatened by them. But our legal system has been messed up intentionally by magats to the point that no one can be confident of safety around them.
(satire) *RFK Jr. Hosts Meet-And-Greet With Infectious Diseases.*
The greatly increased rate of launching satellites is polluting the upper atmosphere. Building datacenters in space would lead to much more pollution.
I can't believe that space datacenters could be cost-competitive with datacenters on Earth. I think the idea is not serious, and that oligarchs are using it as an excuse for manipulating stock prices, The idea doesn't need to be workable to achieve that purpose.
Meta Platforms initially suspended its Instagram account after the bar said bad actors flagged old posts with false charges of "human trafficking," striking down a crucial marketing stream ahead of Sunday's Dore Alley street fair. [...]
"We relied on the page because it combined marketing, ticketing, and communications with clients and performers," Ryan said. "To have that taken away with just a moment's notice ... I can't even describe it."
Nowhere in this article does anyone even consider: "Perhaps we should rely less on Nazi Bars for our critical business functions somewhat".
"The account has been restored," said Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold in an email late Saturday. He did not say why the account was initially suspended.
Another co-owner of the Stud is Honey Mahogany, an activist, drag performer and the director of San Francisco's Office of Transgender Initiatives. In a Friday personal video posted to Instagram, Mahogany called on Meta to reverse the decision. [...]
"[blah blah blah]," said state Sen. Scott Wiener in a post on X on Saturday. "Meta should reverse this ban immediately."
District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey also took to X to tell Meta to restore the bar's page. "I'm glad it's back up," said Dorsey upon hearing of Meta's reversal.
"Dorsey took to X to tell Meta." Uh huh. "Wiener post on X." Uh huh. "Mahogany posted on Instagram." Uh huh.
Nowhere in this article does anyone even consider: "Perhaps local politicians should rely less on Nazi Bars for our critical government communications somewhat".
(Yes, my business also uses Facebook and Instagram somewhat. "Curious!")
How is Jared Leto not in this? It has that Leto Stink on it.
We could have had a second season of The Peripheral instead of this.
The interrogation, including the questions about child sexual abuse images, was "a pretext for a fishing expedition into Mr Tunick's connections" to the movement against Cop City, according to the motion.
Tunick asked four times during the interrogation to speak with a lawyer, but was rebuffed each time, according to courtroom testimony. Additionally, the agents produced no warrant and did not read Tunick his rights. [...]
Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not. When he finally provided a passcode, "the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart", according to the motion.
Two inbox items from Thursday, presented without comment:
July 23, 2026 Press release from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's office:
18 CHARGED IN CONNECTION TO UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY ON HOWARD AND WASHBURN STREET
Today, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that 18 individuals have been charged in connection to an unsanctioned and unpermitted block party in SOMA. [...]
The DJ eventually stopped performing and left. [...] Within an hour, many of the same people from the earlier gathering reconvened on the unit block of Washburn Street and began a second unsanctioned and unpermitted block party with a crowd of approximately 200 individuals.
July 23, 2026 Press release from San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey's office:
SUPERVISOR MATT DORSEY, CITY AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS LAUNCH WEST SOMA ENTERTAINMENT ZONE
Supervisor Matt Dorsey's office, in partnership with Mayor Daniel Lurie, the SOMA West Community Benefit District, the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District, and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, launched the West SoMa Entertainment Zone to support local businesses, strengthen neighborhood nightlife, and bring more activity to the West SoMa neighborhood and its commercial corridors.
Entertainment zones authorized by Senator Scott Wiener's SB 76 (2023) and SB 969 (2024) allow cities and counties to designate outdoor areas where open alcoholic beverages may be consumed during permitted events. Under this framework, the West SoMa Entertainment Zone allows participating restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries to sell "to‑go" drinks for enjoyment on the sidewalk within marked boundaries.
That first press release is some copaganda defending SFPD's insanely dispropotionate and violent actions during Pride. Mission Local:
For the past six years, Stud Alley, an unsanctioned block party, has been held in SoMa on the Saturday evening of Pride. Police this year arrived at the first gathering on Kissling Street at about 11 p.m. to disperse the crowd, and arrested two participants. The party then re-formed a few blocks over and, after issuing dispersal orders a second time, police arrested another 18 people. [...]
Trans March organizers met with Mayor Daniel Lurie on July 13 about Pride weekend arrests at the Trans March and the Stud Alley party, and presented a letter signed by more than 1,500 people blasting the police response at the march. They demanded the charges against Trans March defendants be dropped, though Lurie is not responsible for the DA's charging decisions. District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder has sent two letters of inquiry to the San Francisco Police Department demanding drone footage of the arrests and other information about the police role at both the Stud Alley party and Trans March.
In the courtroom this morning, the line of defendants stretched nearly out the room. The judge and defense attorneys expressed surprise at the charges, which were announced around noon on Wednesday. "I just found out about this at 4:15 yesterday," the judge told the courtroom.
Outside the courtroom, defense attorney Jeff Wozniak reassured the crowd of defendants. "We haven't seen charges like this in 30 to 40 years," he remarked.
A Tesla solar customer went to pull up their lease agreement in their Tesla account this month and found something other than a contract waiting for them: the Book of Enoch, an ancient apocalyptic text about fallen angels.
Not a scanned copy of their agreement. Not an error page. The full text of a roughly 2,000-year-old religious book, sitting exactly where their legally binding solar lease was supposed to be. [...]
When they contacted Tesla support, a representative acknowledged the swap in a chat conversation Electrek reviewed. Tesla confirmed the lease had become the Book of Enoch. What Tesla didn't offer was any real explanation.
For the uninitiated: the Book of Enoch is a Hebrew text from around 200 BCE, cut from most Bibles and considered canonical mainly by the Ethiopian Orthodox church. It's best known for the Watchers, fallen angels who come down and father a race of giants. It is a lot of things. A residential solar lease is not one of them.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
Trans community, allies condemn Wiener for exploiting a march he was asked to leave:
State Sen. Scott Wiener was not invited to the Trans March. He was really, really not invited: In fact, Gabriel Haaland, one of the founders of the march, told me, he had been asked specifically not to attend.
In 2016, then-Sup. Wiener, then-state-Sen. Mark Leno, and then-Mayor Ed Lee were booed off the stage at the march. (That was when Leno and Wiener were close, before Wiener stabbed his mentor in the back and endorsed London Breed for mayor.)
"We told them very clearly that we didn't want politicians in our space," Haaland explained to me. "We changed our policy because of Wiener, and his anti-tenant policies, and asked them not to come back." [...]
But Wiener didn't just show up; after he left, he used video of the event to raise national money, $127,000 in national money, for his Congressional campaign. (According to the Standard, even Netanyahu sided with Wiener, saying he was treated unfairly.)
"It's about as craven as I've ever seen," Haaland told me. "To use our community in this way to raise money is disgraceful. ... He never even picked up the phone and reached out to the Trans March folks." [...]
"The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club condemns these self-serving actions by State Senator Wiener and urges politicians to stop using vulnerable communities as a fundraising tool. Trans people already face immense danger in this country. We need real allies, not people who will sell us out for a fundraising opportunity."
As of Tuesday, the van is back in action with a slightly different message: "I live in this van b/c Connie Chan hates housing."
Gazetteer SF learned that the registered owner of the van is being paid by a super PAC that supports Scott Wiener.
In April, the San Francisco Chronicle used California Department of Motor Vehicles data to identify Conor Johnston as the owner of the van. Johnston is a longtime Wiener supporter who served as chief of staff to London Breed when she was supervisor, and later advised her mayoral reelection campaign in 2024. He is also owner of the cannabis company Otter Brands, and has a history of political pranks and provocations.
Johnston and his business have been paid nearly $30,000 by the Families for an Affordable San Francisco super PAC this year, according to financial disclosures to the Federal Election Commission. Families is a super PAC founded by Wiener's active campaign director, Todd David, who remains the PAC's treasurer.
On April 28, the PAC paid Otter Brands, Johnston's cannabis company, $28,611.37 for "office consulting." One week later, the PAC paid $1,000 to Johnston directly for "office refurbishment." [...]
The Wiener campaign declined to comment through spokesperson Joe Arellano.
The Families PAC itself is a dark-money mess, as it leverages a 2024 FEC rule change in order for the PAC and Wiener's official campaign to share staff and coordinate canvassing operations together. In May, campaign finance experts told Gazetteer that the rule change represents a massive breach of a foundational policy to ban communication between a super PAC and a federal campaign on materials that advocate for voter action.
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