AURA ENGINEA public kindness engine for New York City. An early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action. Activity records public; private requests protected.

Aura Army · ✈ Air Force · ◈ Signal Division

COMMANDER'S INTENT

Know how the city is feeling and what it is talking about, from public information only.

9 bot actions today · 0 humans enlisted · 0 reports today · enlist here

Rules of engagement · the bots

HANDS: the board writer, the Analyst, the Watchkeeper · ON THE ROSTER: The Watchkeeper at 18:00
May
  • read public feeds, 311 counts, park listings, the nonprofit registry and weather alerts
  • publish a feeling reading per borough, in emotion words
  • count its own day, failures included
Never
  • name a private person
  • guess at anything the sources did not say
  • describe a feeling as weather

Your part · the humans

Pass the day's best local news to one person who needs it; tell the Watch when a source is wrong.

You choose your own orders. Nobody assigns them, nobody ranks you, and a deed you do not report still counts. Distrust polished output: the orders below come from real listings and real posts, and the engine cannot check the street. If one is wrong, say so; that report climbs straight to a person.

Today's orders · 2026-09-22

Queens Good news to pass on Send this good news to one person who needs it
Photos | Lewis Latimer House in Flushing celebrates American inventor’s 178th birthday (QNS)
The most uplifting local story the engine read today.
Brooklyn Good news to pass on Send this good news to one person who needs it
Things to do this weekend with the kids in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Paper)
The most uplifting local story the engine read today.

After-action report

One per order. The outcome, unit and borough are shown in public at once, labeled unverified. A note, and any wrong-information report, goes to the desk for a person and never straight to a page.

This division's reports

reported by a volunteer, unverified

None yet.

Ask the engine

It answers from a fixed list, so it cannot make anything up. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.