Alison Leiby

this is a good addiction to have

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'I Want to Burn This Place Down' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books 2025 Here's why it made the list

"expertly mixing personal reflections into explorations of the major challenges of our time"
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This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.

When you’re riding public transit you realize that what’s good for everybody is also good for you. If the bus runs faster, if the train is cleaner, if the AC works, we all benefit

when you’re driving a car, every other car on the road is your personal enemy

Me and Alison giving big ass thumbs downs. Alison is holding a drink. I’m wearing a really cool sweater.

Added to tonight’s already excellent Sup, Bro? lineup at Union Hall in Brooklyn is the great Padma Lakshmi!!! This is how @alisonleiby.bsky.social and I will feel if you don’t make it there!!! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/sup-boo-ti...

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Sup, Boo? Sup, Boo? - Friday, October 31 - 7:00pm Doors / 7:30pm Show

On Halloween Night (this Friday) Sup, Bro? becomes Sup, Boo? @alisonleiby.bsky.social and I host a lineup of: Isabel Hagen, Michael Cruz Kayne, Natasha Vaynblat, Jenny Tian, and Mark Little! Tickets:

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

While we are waiting for the bubble to burst, there is no shame in doing other work than the kind of things you've rightfully felt a lot of pride in making a living from. It is painful to have to reevaluate your career path because every boss thinks you can be replaced by three spellchecks in a trench coat, but it is not embarrassing. The dignity doesn't come from the money. It comes from cultivating skills and having insights and offering something meaningful to other human beings (and sometimes animals too, but they're less dedicated readers/viewers, I imagine).

This week's newsletter contains a pep talk for people doing creative work in the age of AI boosterism, and I was once again a generative AI hater. Read the whole thing here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/154-dangelo-...

It can’t be said too many times:

Zohran is running for people who actually live here, who like it here, who want to make it better and believe it can be better

Cuomo is running for suburbanites, billionaires, and reactionaries

It’s not a complicated decision!

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Almost sold out! Don't wait to get your tickets for Uptown Showdown: Book Smart Vs. Street Smart. Featuring @arieldumas.bsky.social, @mrdavehill.bsky.social, @samkebede.bsky.social, @alisonleiby.bsky.social, Kate Rigg, and Josh Sharp, with special guest host Negin Farsad. bit.ly/4nSm6mV

I sneezed loudly, so the cat and I are in a fight.

The only thing on the planet right now that makes me feel hopeful is the idea of our mayor caring about the people of New York and being excited to make the city better, safer, and more affordable for all of us!!!!!

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The rumors are true!!!!!!!

Like REALLY good comics and, I hate to say it, the best hosts. Come out and hang!!!!!!!

Sup, Bro? Sup, Bro? - Friday, October 3 - 9:30pm Doors / 10:00pm Show

On Friday night at 10, @alisonleiby.bsky.social and I are hosting an absolutely phenomenal lineup at Union Hall!
Amy Silverberg!
Blair Socci!
Julia Shiplett!
Brittany Carney!
Sup, bros????

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

City of Forest Day shows how to be a good tree neighbor Consider this a prime opportunity to get off the internet and touch some actual grass

Did you know 40% of New York City is covered in greenspace? Those trees need your help; check out City of Forest Day on Saturday to find out how nygroove.nyc/city-of-fore...

Well, it’s getting dark earlier, but at least I’m still also running my air conditioning.

Nothing Looks Cooler Than Not Caring You’re Balding In a polarized culture that demands balding men pick a side, opting for the follicular middle ground is a refreshing act of honesty.

I was asked by @gqmagazine.bsky.social to write a little bit about just going bald in the age of widespread head-shaving and affordable, believable hair transplants...so I did!

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I don't know when this push toward American anti-intellectualism started, but I know Arby's making their slogan "We have the meats" was a huge part of it.

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps) Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

Write On How some friends and I try to write

This week on Comfort Read I wrote about...writing. Mostly how I get started and what I do to get in the groove. I asked some buddies their process, too. I think it's helpful! Subscribe, everything is free!!!!!! comfortread.substack.com/p/write-on