No, really.

The new NYT magazine, now edited by Hugo Lindgren, made its big (albeit slim) debut this weekend and attentive readers may have spotted this note at the end of its 'Lives' story 'The Tire Iron and the Tamale.'

Justin Horner is a graphic designer living in Portland, Ore. This essay was adapted from a message-board posting on reddit.com.

The story recounts the writer's various experiences with car trouble in the last year and notes that every time he needed help it was immigrants who came to his aid.

Readers familiar with reddit, the site which posts user-generated links and funnels tons of traffics from those links to the sites they originate from, will recognize the reddit tone in the piece ("Each time, when these things happened, I was disgusted with the way people didn’t bother to help.")

But more encouraging than that piece (which is well worth your time) is the fact that the NYT reads reddit! This is great news! This suggests (far more than their actual Internet column) that someone there actually knows how the Internet lives now. Big sigh of relief. And kudos to the magazine for knowing how to take that knowledge and put it to good use.