"Incorruptible"
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Mark Zuckerberg is a small man — five foot seven, according to Google — but that is not very widely known, because the only images of him available to the public are carefully crafted to make him look taller, according to former Wired writer Graham Starr. Having once read Starr’s remarks on this subject, it becomes impossible to see […]
Rap beef has no rules. When rappers clash, they can and do say whatever it takes to discredit their rivals. To win, emcees have lied, presented hearsay as gospel, and disclosed opponents’ intimate secrets. Collateral damage is common and often deliberate. Spouses, children, cities, record labels, radio stations, magazines, clothing brands, and even blogs have […]
Ten years ago, on April 25th, the City of Flint, Michigan, under the thumb of state-appointed emergency operators, switched their municipal water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the Flint River. Governor Rick Snyder’s Republican administration had imposed a brutal austerity paradigm on both Flint and Detroit, where the vast majority of […]
I don’t know what happened, not really. My memories reveal, as if through curtains slightly opened, only a blurred something outside a greasy window that I can’t make out, or even ascribe a shape to. But something was, is, there, something dark and menacing and fixed on me. The common symptoms of childhood sexual abuse […]
Arizona State University Librarian James O’Donnell’s comments on new developments in the lawsuit against the Internet Archive, published here with the author’s permission. The case of Hachette et al. v. Internet Archive lumbers on. It is mostly impossible to comment on this case without getting into the partisan weeds, and not much point to doing […]
The launch of Flaming Hydra, the exciting new publishing collective of 60 celebrated writers from Brick House, has kept Popula’s editors and writers working at a blistering pace for the last few weeks. This has meant an unexpectedly long hiatus from publishing at Popula. We do have some fine stories in the works here as […]
Ed. Note: We have withheld the author’s name to protect the family’s privacy. On October 7, 2023, in Gaza, my entire life changed. I am an accountant, married, with three kids, 2, 4, and 6 years old. Lived a happy normal life like any normal family. It was a Saturday when a war erupted between […]
Tom Scocca’s essay in New York last week, “My Unraveling,” is a matter-of-fact dissection of the failings of the US health care system, and of the casual brutality with which society treats those who fall ill; the precarity in which even the most hard-working and accomplished young professionals are expected to live, work, and raise […]
Substack has announced its intention to continue to platform Nazis, in the face of a letter asking them to stop doing that, signed by a large number of the writers who publish on there. The puerile, idiotic reasoning employed in Substack’s response is beneath anyone’s notice, so we won’t bother analyzing that here. Let’s be […]
