Matthew Bradley
@machination.org
NY->NM->DC. Dad, product-minded technologist & mgr, photog. Veteran of DC machinations. I care about climate, civil liberties, pluralism. Previously: Indymedia/WPFW/FSRN/Accuracy, WPNI, Nader, AARP, Grassroots.com, Edelman, Polaris/NHTRC/NHTH, DBT.
I don't think I've ever seen a floor-to-ceiling Metro car ad for the official White House christmas ornament before.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a floor-to-ceiling Metro car ad for the official White House christmas ornament before.
The thing about building software that passes the Turing Test is that we fail it.
Things that aren't people shouldn't talk to people as if they're people, it's a simple rule. We're too stupid.
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The thing about building software that passes the Turing Test is that we fail it.
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What a horrible habit, reading the news: https://machination.org/2025/11/21/what-a-horrible-habit-reading.html
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a horrible habit, reading the news: https://machination.org/2025/11/21/what-a-horrible-habit-reading.html
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So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
Listening to the Republican's witness, Dr. Blaze, attack the concepts of risk pools and solidarity and not really attack profiteering besides moaning about it by implication in this morning's opening testimony before the Sen. Finance committee led by Sens. Crapo and @wyden.senate.gov
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Listening to the Republican's witness, Dr. Blaze, attack the concepts of risk pools and solidarity and not really attack profiteering besides moaning about it by implication in this morning's opening testimony before the Sen. Finance committee led by Sens. Crapo and @wyden.senate.gov
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Trump’s racial profiling ICE goon army is ripping parents from kids
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Trump’s racial profiling ICE goon army is ripping parents from kids
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Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
When a shield becomes a shackle: https://machination.org/2025/11/18/when-a-shield-becomes-a.html
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When a shield becomes a shackle: https://machination.org/2025/11/18/when-a-shield-becomes-a.html
Gardens vs. giveaways: https://machination.org/2025/11/18/gardens-vs-giveaways.html
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Gardens vs. giveaways: https://machination.org/2025/11/18/gardens-vs-giveaways.html
Is it just DCPS's implementation or are all instances of Aspen systems complete garbage?
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Is it just DCPS's implementation or are all instances of Aspen systems complete garbage?
Sick of Pages.app's apparent memory leaks in Tahoe, I'm back to LibreOffice. Uglier, but it works better right now. Thought about revisiting Nisus... only to read this news and analysis: tidbits.com/2025/10/25/nisus-...
Nisus Writer: Schrödinger’s Word Processor - TidBITS
The powerful word processor hasn’t seen an update in nearly a year, it has disappeared from the Mac App Store, and support responses have been slow or nonexistent for some time. There is writing on the wall, and it’s not looking good.
tidbits.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sick of Pages.app's apparent memory leaks in Tahoe, I'm back to LibreOffice. Uglier, but it works better right now. Thought about revisiting Nisus... only to read this news and analysis: tidbits.com/2025/10/25/nisus-...
Trying to be in a moment, here, where I am, without being attached to all the things this place is attached to or overwhelmed by swimming against the tide still. Ironically, helping me be here is a folk radio presenter, & friend of friends, from my hometown, many hours away, broadcasting right now.
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Trying to be in a moment, here, where I am, without being attached to all the things this place is attached to or overwhelmed by swimming against the tide still. Ironically, helping me be here is a folk radio presenter, & friend of friends, from my hometown, many hours away, broadcasting right now.
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NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
Over by A. Litteri in Union Market.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Over by A. Litteri in Union Market.
"“The more you push me, the more I’m not going to do what you want,” said the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, in response to a public outcry to tax the rich."
Hochul can go, just like Jeffries and Schumer and Gillibrand.
Hochul can go, just like Jeffries and Schumer and Gillibrand.
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"“The more you push me, the more I’m not going to do what you want,” said the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, in response to a public outcry to tax the rich."
Hochul can go, just like Jeffries and Schumer and Gillibrand.
Hochul can go, just like Jeffries and Schumer and Gillibrand.
The best way we can honor service members is to send the National Guard home: https://machination.org/2025/11/11/the-best-way-we-can.html
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The best way we can honor service members is to send the National Guard home: https://machination.org/2025/11/11/the-best-way-we-can.html
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Interestingly, younger Americans are significantly more likely to dislike data centers than older ones
and dislike is bipartisan
This from a Heatmap story (paywalled): heatmap.news/energy/data-...
and dislike is bipartisan
This from a Heatmap story (paywalled): heatmap.news/energy/data-...
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Interestingly, younger Americans are significantly more likely to dislike data centers than older ones
and dislike is bipartisan
This from a Heatmap story (paywalled): heatmap.news/energy/data-...
and dislike is bipartisan
This from a Heatmap story (paywalled): heatmap.news/energy/data-...
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After the 2016 election, I wrote this, about how Chuck Schumer was the worst possible Democratic leader at the worst possible time. He still is! theintercept.com/2016/11/14/c...
Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
The soon-to-be top elected Democrat might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face for opposition to Donald Trump.
theintercept.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
After the 2016 election, I wrote this, about how Chuck Schumer was the worst possible Democratic leader at the worst possible time. He still is! theintercept.com/2016/11/14/c...
Where is Senator Cornyn? Drinking Shiner at Trusty's/Union Pub/Tunnicliff's/Tune Inn/The Pug. Heck, the Raven? Stuck at the airport? Stuck in the toilet? Took a wrong turn in a Capitol sub-basement? Asleep in the cloakroom? Frozen with guilt, remembering he has grandkids, realizing what he's done?
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Where is Senator Cornyn? Drinking Shiner at Trusty's/Union Pub/Tunnicliff's/Tune Inn/The Pug. Heck, the Raven? Stuck at the airport? Stuck in the toilet? Took a wrong turn in a Capitol sub-basement? Asleep in the cloakroom? Frozen with guilt, remembering he has grandkids, realizing what he's done?
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Finally we have an updated answer to the question "If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?"
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Finally we have an updated answer to the question "If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?"
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Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!