Down left arrow(s) is anti-fascist/anti-nazi
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I’d bet Don Knuth knows.
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Look, call me a grognard but if they’re not in the AD&D 1st Edition Monster Manual, I’m not worshipping them.
It’s just some random glabrezu making itself out to be all big and mighty but as soon as you sign over your soul, you’ll find out it can’t actually deliver on any of its promises.
Just like Trump
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It kind of looks like a graph that is out of whack, so my guess is that it was intended to indicate data isn’t falling within the expected parameters.
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Of course in theory, Unicode has codes for characters rather than glyphs. Which is to say that the upper case of “i” and the lower case of “L” are not encoded the same, even though they might represented by identical glyphs in some fonts.
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From the person who added it to unicode:
This symbol was “adopted” from the existing ISO 9573 standard which defined entities for use with SGML. It appeared in the entity set ISOAMSA, which, regardless of the name, had no connection with the American Mathematical Society; instead, it means “added math symbols”, as evident in this listing. I had no idea what the symbol meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. (I still have no idea, nor can supply an example of the symbol in use.)
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Can’t help but be reminded of the whole “Man in business suit levitating” emoji encoding: 
(early adopted, very few understood why), but eventually a strange notably non-general use explanation emerges: The Secret Ska History of That Weird Levitating Businessman Emoji
Personally i think the axis lightening-bolt ‘should’ mean that it’s a broken ordinate axis, that is, shifted, interrupted, possibly logarithmically, from some more general positioning …maybe
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Having worked on typefaces a little, I imagine it crept in as a place-filler. I imagine the process went something like this:
“We need to send eight new symbols to the Unicode people.”
“Don’t we have eight symbols?”
“Not new ones, and if we don’t send them eight we’ll lose the other seven that we have.”
“Okay then, make something up.”
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Lightning Rod
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Could it have something to do with:
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It will be the name of Elon Musk’s next child.
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Can’t he find those $200 standards documents at a good library?
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Thanks for the link. Surely the totality of what can be known about the symbol is a subset of what Barbara Beeton knows about the symbol.
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and if it’s math related, possibly Stephen Wolfram.
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Unicode for
?
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Looks like it may contain some “electrical grounding” meaning.
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Randall Munroe calls it Larry Potter
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So besides the marshmallow rabbits whose ears mush down into Kim Jong Il’s do, maybe these are the rites of Internet 4.0.-33.-3 (functional ferret) that are around…
SGML without the GM, and nudged back a bit? Yes, it’s SGML markdown. (Go on, ask for no more than 20 stylesheets.)
Productivity meandering about valuation to the bitter end, making commodity subgenius of all the ex-farmers makers and creative financiers, throwing weird ideas of what the tractor should squish next at the equipment.
Also, possibly…
SuperLoser’s logo (I just bought a CD player!)
For use with next decade’s Dogecoin-from-stock declarations, e.g. ‘Subtract 4D Time Bleed from Line 25. If result is complex in Dogecoin, give arcsine (do not root square.)’
(Missing the spiral writing timecube Burroughsian ritual proscenium there, but there it is.)
#sl man ;the UN*X steam locomotive of men (will there be el man for e-locomotives of men? hl for hydrogen trains (and whose pride might it be?))
Production theory stuff for sure, even though I saw SGML User Group apocrypha.
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Looks like some weird xyz coordinate indicator with a zig don’t zag message.
It’s a Linking Sigil, designed by members of Chaos Magick groups DKMU in 2004:
Edit: I should have read the article first, they mention Ellis in the links 
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