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Monthly articles on politics, culture, tech, history and esoterica. Home of The Xanadu Review podcast- episodes released every other Monday
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A Gift From the Stars (opens the original)
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Aldrick pulled his cloak closer and let out a long, beleaguered sigh that turned to mist in the cold morning air. He looked out over the rolling hills, dead and brown. The early days of spring had come, but winter still clung to the world stubbornly. He set out to complete his daily tasks before the sun would rise to meet him. He used to watch his little brother play in these fields when they were both young. But now was not the time for idle memories—there was work to be done.Aldrick made his w
Woke 2, AI Doom and The Reddit Apocalypse (opens the original)
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Hey Folks, To the new subscribers I gained from my latest piece The Burger Age Collapse, welcome and thanks for subscribing! If you enjoyed that, I have another essay in the same vein in the works. Stay tuned for “The Disco of Alexandria is Always Burning”. I also do fiction and I have a short story in the works that’s a dark sci-fi (think Twilight Zone, not Star Wars) re-imagining of a Greek myth though the lens of romantic comedies. In the meantime, I sometimes do posts like the one you’re rea
The Burger Age Collapse (opens the original)
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Approximately twelve centuries before the birth of Christ, the world existed as we can scarcely imagine it today. This is an era equal parts history and legend. A time remembered in some of humanity’s oldest surviving stories, spanning from Homer’s tales of Achilles and Odysseus to some of the earliest traditions of the Hebrew Bible. Wealthy, powerful kingdoms stretch across the Mediterranean from the Mycenaean Greeks in the west, Egypt in the south, the Hittites in the east and the kingdoms of
The Xanadu Review, Episode 49- Dudley Newright (opens the original)
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Return to Office (opens the original)
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“They’ve finally pushed me too far. They think they can just treat me like I’m trash, like I’m nothing. Six years. Six fucking years of my life I gave that company. And they fired me over a Zoom call. No respect. But I’ll show them. They’ll finally pay, along with this whole rotten world. Today’s the day.”Martin fumed silently in his car as he approached his former workplace. PlexCorp had a giant office downtown. It stretched into the sky like a ziggurat, a monument to a long-dead god. A god of
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