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.
Then This Happened (A Cartoon About One Deed)
The Vibe Report · episode 8 · 2026-10-01
A slow sepia cartoon: Soteira does one deed on the sly, feels the lift (which real studies measured), watches it get copied outward (which another study measured), and admits the engine's agents are how she keeps it going without getting caught. Quirky, warm, a little mischievous.
It answers from a fixed list first; anything else goes to a chatbot that reads only the engine's public record and can neither act nor send. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.