The Singular Magic of Torrisi: New York City on a Plate (Gift Article) Sam Sifton takes you through a meal at Torrisi, where the story of the five boroughs is channeled through the food.

Here’s a traditional 2D (gift) link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/d...

Story of a Restaurant on Meta Quest The New York Times takes you on an immersive journey through one of New York’s great meals. At the Michelin-starred restaurant Torrisi, Sam Sifton takes us on a tour of three dishes, tracing their cul...

If you’ve got a Quest headset, we just launched our first 3D video story. It was a real treat to research stereoscopy, help develop a workflow we could use on deadline, and then film a 3D story! www.meta.com/experiences/...

I do actually really like the game, so many of the choices in the game are trying to be moral grey areas but offer you no incentive for doing the bad thing. Its like “I can get side missions from the evil people? And I get to be evil?” Give me a compelling reason to be evil if the choice is there!

this is one of those games that whenever I look up anything related to it I realize I’m a very different person than whoever the average person is playing it.

The Guy in 1917 Who Used the Latest in High Tech to Hear Both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans at the... New technologies can literally change the world. The railroad opened up America’s economy to the west, digital photography gave virtually everyone cameras in their pockets, and the atomic bomb end...

Someone used the country’s first coast-to-coast telephone line to listen to both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the same time.

Continues to be one of my favorite Lubchansky pieces. Go read Boys Weekend btw it’s great.

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 8, Episode 9

In a way I think this is what many photographers would prefer to do if we had our druthers. It’s awesome that it actually is what RIP does, and they do it so well!

A screen grab of the full text of Frost’s “the road not taken” on theatlantic.com, however, the last, most famous line of the poem is cut off by the paywall.

Was reading Frost in the Atlantic because of the very good @rusty.todayintabs.com newsletter today and folks, you will absolutely love where the paywall comes in

I looked it up a few days ago and unsurprisingly your pitch is way better than the actual premise.

kids these days | patreon.com/lubchansky

but when I got home ...

Cheap plastic skeletons from hell! Free!

Do you ever see an ad that is perfectly designed to get you to click on it

I have the lectric folding bike and I wanted to hate it (was regifted to me) but I actually love it. Folding bike design is dorky but 10000% functional.

What'd you get cursed by, hubris? I bet it was hubris. Probably your own tbh

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

New from us: Sports Illustrated published articles by "writers" who don't appear to actually exist and had AI-generated headshots

futurism.com/sports-illus...

This guy is my friend

Jucika big sword

Does Swan Boy have a Mario, or a Luigi?

Heading to the store to pick up a 900 page book about Elon Musk, a guy I love hearing about

cartoons back in the day gave kids an unrealistic expectation of how many people sound like Peter Lorre

Film list: Cartoon Reviews Just so you can see them all in one place if you were looking. These are in no sort of order. Unsure how to link directly to my reviews but they shouldn't be hard to find. I'm usually the top review��...

Somebody asked for them so here are all of my letterboxd reviews of old cartoons. Have at it, perverts. letterboxd.com/bransonreese...

one of your best, and posted on 9/11

wishing I could sell some sort of novel lamp in the replies here, but the technology doesn’t exist

me on bluesky 🤝 mario on rainbow road

"there's too much of a discourse"