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Life & fun · October 19, 2026

Capitol Alpha Machine

Free Mac screensavers built from congressional trade data

Capitol Alpha Machine launched on October 19, 2026 with 72 votes, #299 of 3,080 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Three free Mac screensavers: data sculptures made from 7,793 congressional stock trades. Monochrome experiments in disclosure, public laws and returns.

Three visualization experiments built from 7,793 congressional stock trades. Free Mac screensavers. Every point in the Capitol is a disclosed trade. Your Mac checks for newly published data each Monday; each study shows its own data window. A series of studies in disclosure. Public records (trades, laws, closing prices) reduced to points, lines and intervals, then left running. Nancy Pelosi, Tommy Tuberville, Ro Khanna, Michael McCaul and other members appear as signal, not story. No color, no commentary. The data is the material. Which trades landed close to a new law? Public laws from Congress.gov sit on a spine across the top. Trades fill eleven sector lanes below, each tied by a faint…from capitolalpha.app

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