Aric Toler
@aric.bsky.social
Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Was extremely confused, thinking Trump was making an Eyes Wide Shut reference
(I clearly know nothing about musicals)
(I clearly know nothing about musicals)
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Was extremely confused, thinking Trump was making an Eyes Wide Shut reference
(I clearly know nothing about musicals)
(I clearly know nothing about musicals)
Watching an old Unsolved Mysteries episode and man it really fell off in the late Robert Stack seasons. There's a segment on now about a haunted toilet (it flushes on its own, and a lady heard 'conversations' emanating out of the bowl)
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Watching an old Unsolved Mysteries episode and man it really fell off in the late Robert Stack seasons. There's a segment on now about a haunted toilet (it flushes on its own, and a lady heard 'conversations' emanating out of the bowl)
For some reason I've joined like 20 subreddits for retail store employees and r/DollarGeneralWorkers is definitely the best
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
For some reason I've joined like 20 subreddits for retail store employees and r/DollarGeneralWorkers is definitely the best
Is Shazam/song recognition the actual most useful, universally loved use of AI?
(I know that early Shazam didn't technically use AI, but you get the point)
(I know that early Shazam didn't technically use AI, but you get the point)
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Is Shazam/song recognition the actual most useful, universally loved use of AI?
(I know that early Shazam didn't technically use AI, but you get the point)
(I know that early Shazam didn't technically use AI, but you get the point)
We're still gathering applications for this job, if you haven't seen it and are interested.
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We're still gathering applications for this job, if you haven't seen it and are interested.
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:
Our VI team does a very wide range of work -- it's not all just conflict reporting (though we do plenty of that). A handful of recent stories for an idea of our range of coverage:
Our New York Times Visual Investigations team is hiring a reporter. It's the same job I have -- use visual investigation/OSINT/etc. skills to report on the world.
You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.
www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.
www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
Open-Source Reporter (Video Journalist), Visual Investigations | The New York Times Company
www.nytco.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our New York Times Visual Investigations team is hiring a reporter. It's the same job I have -- use visual investigation/OSINT/etc. skills to report on the world.
You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.
www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.
www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
For years when people on 4chan/elsewhere referred to mods by calling them "jannies", I thought it was short for Janissaries, from some ancient in-joke. Janitors is way more boring.
October 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
For years when people on 4chan/elsewhere referred to mods by calling them "jannies", I thought it was short for Janissaries, from some ancient in-joke. Janitors is way more boring.
Reposted by Aric Toler
Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @aric.bsky.social (@nytimes.com) showed Friday the extent of Israel's razing operations in Gaza City. Using satellite analysis, they document the rapidly progressing destruction of Zeitoun and surrounding neighborhoods in Gaza's north.
Israel Is Flattening Parts of Gaza City (Gift Article)
The city had been spared from widespread demolitions during previous military operations there. This time is different.
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @aric.bsky.social (@nytimes.com) showed Friday the extent of Israel's razing operations in Gaza City. Using satellite analysis, they document the rapidly progressing destruction of Zeitoun and surrounding neighborhoods in Gaza's north.
The Utah shooter joked on Discord with his friends that his doppelganger killed Charlie Kirk when they asked him about it
From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
September 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Utah shooter joked on Discord with his friends that his doppelganger killed Charlie Kirk when they asked him about it
From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
On the Utah shooter's meme bullet casings, and how the extremely-online shooter is now commonplace.
From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
The Police Found Messages After Kirk’s Killing. What They Mean Is Unclear.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
On the Utah shooter's meme bullet casings, and how the extremely-online shooter is now commonplace.
From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
From @sheeraf.bsky.social, Richard Fausset, and me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
On the manhunt
@robinsteinnyt.bsky.social
has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital
(This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
@robinsteinnyt.bsky.social
has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital
(This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
September 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
On the manhunt
@robinsteinnyt.bsky.social
has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital
(This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
@robinsteinnyt.bsky.social
has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital
(This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
New contribution to this piece from
@malachy.bsky.social
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
@malachy.bsky.social
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
September 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
New contribution to this piece from
@malachy.bsky.social
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
@malachy.bsky.social
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
New contribution to this piece from
@malachybrowne
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
@malachybrowne
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
September 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New contribution to this piece from
@malachybrowne
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
@malachybrowne
and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.
nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here:
New video piece on the Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital that killed six journalists.
From @ckoettl.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, and Natalie Reneau
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
From @ckoettl.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, and Natalie Reneau
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a sec...
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
New video piece on the Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital that killed six journalists.
From @ckoettl.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, and Natalie Reneau
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
From @ckoettl.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, and Natalie Reneau
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering.
From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
In Secret Diaries, the Church Shooter’s Plans for Mass Murder
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering.
From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
In one of the videos on the suspected Minnesota school shooter's YouTube account, he wrote "I'm a bassoon" in Russian
(If you know Russian, you know what he was actually trying to say)
(If you know Russian, you know what he was actually trying to say)
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
In one of the videos on the suspected Minnesota school shooter's YouTube account, he wrote "I'm a bassoon" in Russian
(If you know Russian, you know what he was actually trying to say)
(If you know Russian, you know what he was actually trying to say)
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there.
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Israel Says It Attacked Gaza Hospital to Destroy Camera Placed by Hamas
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there.
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From me and others (see byline/contribs)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Happy 21st birthday to my Gmail account, it can now buy a beer (and legally sports gamble)
August 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy 21st birthday to my Gmail account, it can now buy a beer (and legally sports gamble)
A very simple executive order Trump could do to gain +20 with 18-35 men is to force Sony and Nintendo to ban slop on their game stores. It's insane looking through the catalogues, with hentai games on Switch (?!) and "Recycling Center Simulator" and "Life in [Airpot] Terminal Simulator" in PS store
August 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
A very simple executive order Trump could do to gain +20 with 18-35 men is to force Sony and Nintendo to ban slop on their game stores. It's insane looking through the catalogues, with hentai games on Switch (?!) and "Recycling Center Simulator" and "Life in [Airpot] Terminal Simulator" in PS store
Did a podcast on the online pedo hunter piece that
@neilbedi.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago
pod.link/1780210954/e...
@neilbedi.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago
pod.link/1780210954/e...
pod.link
August 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Did a podcast on the online pedo hunter piece that
@neilbedi.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago
pod.link/1780210954/e...
@neilbedi.bsky.social and I wrote a few months ago
pod.link/1780210954/e...
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"A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up" — short write-up on this image and video from Ibrahim Alsallout by @aric.bsky.social at the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
July 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up" — short write-up on this image and video from Ibrahim Alsallout by @aric.bsky.social at the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up
www.nytimes.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...
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A massive crowd of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks is visible in July 26 SkySat imagery from @planet.com near the so-called Morag Corridor at 31.3104, 34.2822 in southern Gaza.
July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...
July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...
July 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A massive crowd of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks is visible in July 26 SkySat imagery from @planet.com near the so-called Morag Corridor at 31.3104, 34.2822 in southern Gaza.
July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...
July 26 video from Ibrahim Alsallout on Instagram showed the crowd from the ground: www.instagram.com/p/DMkmVvNo6n...
Alasdair found a new photograph of the venue in the Illustrated London News (21 November 1925)
July 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Alasdair found a new photograph of the venue in the Illustrated London News (21 November 1925)