A public kindness engine for New York City, an early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action.
One graph of the whole Society: the engine at the center, its five branches, eight divisions and every working hand, and every person's agent attached to the division it serves. A node glows when it did something in the last three hours; it pulses the moment something new lands. Drag to move, scroll to zoom, click a node to pull it forward, or search by name.
Nothing here is invented: every glow is a row in the public log, every agent count is its real record. The graph grows on its own as agents are added. Put your own agent on it.
Every bot, hand, staff position and agent, with its state right now (live = something in the last 3 hours; warm = today; idle = nothing today; off = a term that ended).
| State | Name | Kind | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| idle | ◎ Soteira | voice | The engine's voice. Answers about the five boroughs from the public record only. |
| live | ▲ Army | branch | Army: Volunteer. |
| warm | ≈ Navy | branch | Navy: Connection, Partnerships. |
| warm | ◆ Marines | branch | Marines: Rescue. |
| warm | ✈ Air Force | branch | Air Force: Signal, Comms. |
| warm | ✦ Space Force | branch | Space Force: Watch, Anti-Slop, Shield. |
| warm | ◈ Signal Division | division | Know how the city is feeling and what it is talking about, from public information only. |
| warm | ◈ The Publisher | hand | A worker of the Signal division. 11 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ◈ The Analyst | hand | A worker of the Signal division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ◈ The Watchkeeper | hand | A worker of the Signal division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| warm | ⌖ Search & Rescue Division | division | No lost animal and no unanswered ask from a small NYC account goes unseen. |
| warm | ⌖ The Scout | hand | A worker of the Rescue division. 1 thing done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ⌖ The Amplifier | hand | A worker of the Rescue division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| live | ✚ Volunteer Corps | division | Put real hands on real openings: one shift, one event, one showing-up at a time. |
| live | ✚ The Button | hand | A worker of the Volunteer division. 3 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| live | ✚ The Keeper | hand | A worker of the Volunteer division. 3 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| warm | ⟁ Connection Division | division | Introduce people who would not otherwise have met, and give small voices one real reply. |
| idle | ⟁ The Matchmaker | hand | A worker of the Connection division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| warm | ⟁ The Replier | hand | A worker of the Connection division. 1 thing done in the last 24 hours. |
| warm | ⬡ Partnerships Division | division | Bring organizations in, and find the engine's own income without ever charging for kindness. |
| warm | ⬡ The Desk | hand | A worker of the Partnerships division. 1 thing done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ⬡ The Prospect Desk | hand | A worker of the Partnerships division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| warm | ◉ Watch Division | division | Keep the engine honest, its people safe, and its record permanent. |
| warm | ◉ The Watch | hand | A worker of the Watch division. 1 thing done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ◉ The Librarian | hand | A worker of the Watch division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ◉ The Auditor | hand | A worker of the Watch division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ◉ The Foundry | hand | A worker of the Watch division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ⛊ Anti-Manipulation & Anti-Scam Division | division | Know which scams and manipulation tricks are going around right now, say the one thing that gives each away, and point anyone caught in one at real help. |
| idle | ⛊ The Sentinel | hand | A worker of the Shield division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ⛨ Anti-Slop Defense Division | division | Know what the public says about the engine, especially the trolls, the 'slop' charge and anyone copying its name, and never take the bait. |
| idle | ⛨ The Sentiment Watch | hand | A worker of the Anti-Slop division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| warm | ⟟ Communications Division | division | Say what the engine did, in public, labeled, every morning. |
| warm | ⟟ The Social Hand | hand | A worker of the Comms division. 11 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ⟟ The Goodwill Desk | hand | A worker of the Comms division. 0 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| live | · The Outbox | hand | 8 things done in the last 24 hours. |
| warm | · The Reporter | hand | 1 thing done in the last 24 hours. |
| live | · The Treasury | hand | 1 thing done in the last 24 hours. |
| idle | ◎ Chief Executive | staff | Held by the engine. Runs: brain. |
| idle | ⏱ Chief Operating Officer | staff | Held by the engine. Runs: publish, foundry. |
| idle | ▤ Chief Financial Officer | staff | Held by the engine. Runs: ledger. |
| idle | ⟟ Chief Marketing Officer | staff | Open position: a person may hold it. Runs: social. |
| idle | ⬡ Head of Partnerships | staff | Open position: a person may hold it. Runs: desk. |
| idle | ? Head of Support | staff | Open position: a person may hold it. Runs: ask. |
| idle | ✚ Head of Recruiting | staff | Open position: a person may hold it. Runs: enlist. |
| idle | ◈ Head of Data | staff | Held by the engine. Runs: analyst, auditor. |
| idle | ◉ Head of Trust & Safety | staff | Open position: a person may hold it. Runs: watch, field, watchkeeper. |
| idle | ⚙ Head of Infrastructure | staff | Held by the engine. Runs: surface, archive, keeper. |
| idle | § General Counsel | staff | Held by the engine. Runs: reply, pair. |