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Turning this one around in my brain a little.

There is a Compass Rose-esque shape in the bottom. One arrow is shaded, and so, that likely serves to say "Up is Up" or otherwise orient the text.

There are two circles with orienting triangles in them. Both of them have a matching triangular 'Chip' carved out of their central circle, but one of them has its triangles shaded in.

There's a branching toggle.
The two interlinks have differing sizes of 'chip' cut off their dot extensions. One is wider than the other. Because there are two lines of text, and one is roughly twice the size of the other 'chip' I suspect this is a numerical system and those are 'One' and 'Two' respectively.

I imagine the large black central circle is a key of some sort.

The circular structure is interesting.
I'm curious as to if it corresponds to the placement or movement of a Compass instrument or something...

Whatever text -is- here hinges upon the central point, it would seem. Every piece features a central point.

Notable, the shortest line of text has its point struck with an 'X' - as does the larger black symbol (potentially a key.)

I don't know. I'm just typing what I see at this point.

i have very little training in decoding systems of encryption or untangling conlangs or what have you so don't allow my interpretations to infect your own perception of the information provided too much. but here are some thoughts that i have as well:
- the entire message consists of a series of nodes which are to be interpreted linearly or non-linearly, though in this case it seems to be non-linear given the branching path as well as the disconnected inverted node
- every arrow seems to connect two nodes, though the inverted node has an arrow with an outgoing head but no incoming head which connects to a kind of circle diagram, which may be the smallest form of a 'node' or could be a different means of conveying information, like an error code. since they appear in the center of all the nodes i'll just call them 'cores'
- (in this image) every node is demarcated by a border of three thin lines and has a core that is either empty, filled, or X'd. every node has two line segments extending out from the core. in general, the data of the message seems to be encoded in a series of concentric circles around the core of nodes (curved line segments) and a number of (straight) line segments between those circles. both the curved line segments and straight line segments begin and end on only 8 different angles within a circle--this could be notated as degrees (eg the starting node has line segments at 180° and 225°) though it could also just be a way of showing a base-8 information system (eg the starting node has line segments at 4 and 5 (when indexed at 0)). for brevity i'll be describing nodes using the latter
- there are a few other objects on display here: a compass rose sort of thing, as discussed previously, which notably does not only orient but also has its own circle diagrams with two line segments within each. N is (3, 5), E is (1, 4), S is (3, 6), W is (1, 2). there's also a similar sort of these circle diagrams seen at the disjunction of the nodes in the message

though the disjunction circle diagrams are inverted. there's also the filled and unfilled triangles seen in the 'start' and 'end' nodes, which i would assume signify the beginning and ending of the message.
- the starting node has line segments at (4, 5). the disjunction diagram on the left also does, and the ending node, and also the inverted node does too
- here's an attempt at reducing the information in one node to text for the first node after the starting node.
(core: filled, (0, 7), (6-5), (1, 4))

this is all i've really noticed so far. of what i'm familiar with, it's somewhat reminiscent of a finite-state machine, at least in the way that there are multiple terminating paths and every node within the message is connected via arrows, though this similarity is likely just superficial. i think the compass rose is probably the first thing that needs to be understood in order to understand the rest of it, but my pattern-matching abilities fail me.

the main thing happening across the entire graphic is the eight-way divided segments and i just dont know how to convert octal into any text or information that makes sense, if thats even where youre supposed to take that

im too stupid to begin to know how to solve this lol

>>3mrbdqg6rkc2d
Signal Received
Please solve any incomplete sequences. Thank you.

ALERT
An error has been discovered. A correction has been issued alongside todays transmission.
Transmission with error: TestPattern.webp
Position of sequence with error: X : 558, Y : 1075
Position of error within sequence: 5th Ring
Displayed positions: (N,E)
Correct positions: (N,SE)

I was told to think about the Peace Sign and the Navy on this one.

So - the Peace Sign takes its shape from the shape of communicating "November-Delta" (for 'Nuclear Disarmament') in Flag Semaphore.

I assume the middle lines now represent a standing individual, and the 'spokes' are the notional position of arms, which gets us...

Something like this?

I'm speculating still that the small dots might be numbers; if they are, small dots in the center of the Semaphore Position might denote "Number" too - I've noticed that, at least in this transmission, the dot is only in letters 1-9 and 0.

Unfortunately, that doesn't explain what the struck circles are, so maybe I'm wrong here.

Notably, "Bravo-Zulu" or BZ is usually semaphore for "Congratulations" or "Good Job".

Potential for one of the bottom bullets, which seems to just be "BZ" to essentially be "Congrats".

I doubt it will be relevant, but the other half of Semaphore was Pennant Code - just in case we need it, it's here for reference.

... I was puzzling about this in bed this morning realized the file is named "Basic Arithmetic" and so, I've probably got this inside out, and this is a set of small math-problems.

I think I've got it inside out, and these letters are predominantly their semaphore number equivalents.

It occurs to me I misidentified 'Golf' as 'Zulu'.

Is that 5 A 5 with "A" as a shorthand for 'Addition'?
5+5?

7 D 3 with "D" (or maybe zero?) as a shorthand for 'Division'?
7 / 3?
7 0 3 ?

I haven't figured out the branching mid-link dots; if it's mirroring the semaphore position, the linking dots might be '12' and '3'

3 (some sort of branching operation symbol involving '12' and '3') = 9 ?

Maybe it is appending extra numbers to a lead number, and it's 312 or 33?

I think the bottom row is:
2 7 6 4 or perhaps 2 7 6 0 .

1 (some sort of branching operation symbol involving '18' (?) and '2'(?) ) concluding in an arrow?

The last symbol, 'H'/'8' with three terminating branches leads me to believe the 'x's may represent a zero value or something.

Maybe that's 8,000?