Don’t rush out of town over Labor Day — there’s plenty to do right here in the District! Whether your ideal long weekend means enjoying some much needed rest or making the most of the extra time off, our roundup has you covered:

15 things to do in DC over Labor Day weekend

You don’t have to leave the city to have fun during the upcoming three-day weekend. Here’s where to get out and about, including watching local films, weeding in a historic garden, and competing in a…

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1982's Conan the Barbarian is a movie about Arnold Schwarzenegger kicking ass and fighting snakes...but it also presents a far more thoughtful, sympathetic version of Conan than people realize. Let's talk beefy heroes, Thulsa Doom, and...feminism?

Conan the Barbarian: An Unexpectedly Nuanced Depiction of Masculinity? - Reactor

Okay, hear me out: this movie kicks ass, but it's also more thoughtful than you might expect...

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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ ‘Ravenloft’ Live-Action Series From Alfonso Cuarón in the Works at Netflix gizmodo.com/dungeons-dra...

'Dungeons & Dragons' 'Ravenloft' Live-Action Series From Alfonso Cuarón in the Works at Netflix

The series will be an origin story for the classic 'D&D' baddie Count Strahd von Zarovich.

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Join me for a BIG ARCHAEOLOGY livestream to celebrate the fact that my YouTube channel now has 100,000 subscribers! We'll also discuss my next video series on how American archaeology as we know it is being dismantled and destroyed www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC41...

BIG ARCHAEOLOGY: 100K SPECIAL!

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Have you checked out our latest episode? Hosts Luke and Baz discuss #Babylon5 spin-off novel, The Shadow Within, which explores Anna Sheridan, Morden and the crew of the Icarus on their journey to Z'ha'Dum. open.spotify.com/episode/7BrE...

Now starting! It’s all so beautiful!

i did it, i finally wrote about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (and the Statue of Liberty, and Planet of the Apes, and Iris Murdoch)

‘You Maniacs, You Blew It Up’

A few words about ‘The Odyssey’

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this is great and also my periodic reminder that you should watch the original Planet of the Apes films. even "Battle," which is the weakest of the five," is pretty solid. and altogether, i think it is one of the greatest science fiction series in american movies.

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i did it, i finally wrote about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (and the Statue of Liberty, and Planet of the Apes, and Iris Murdoch)

I assumed that per Turing eventually there would be a chatbot created that would mimic intelligence well enough that people would be fooled. Don't know how many of us foresaw that people would start truly believing, not that the output was intelligent, but that they were somehow the authors of it.

We're back with the fourth and penultimate chapter in my series on The Guerrilla Generation! Today we travel to El Salvador, where the murder of Archbishop Óscar Romero is about to precipitate a major challenge to the government. Read it here: spacebiff.com/2026/09/01/g...

Liberation Ludology, Part Four: El Salvador

At long last, we’re nearing the end. After Uruguay, Peru, and Nicaragua, El Salvador is the fourth and final scenario in Stephen Rangazas’s The Guerrilla Generation. We’ve seen ur…

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In 1990, an elementary school teacher won $16,500 on a game show, and used her winnings to publish a board game about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. This is her story. youtu.be/r1g7C0o9Oqc

Tracia Newman's Board Game: Oil Spill & Amateur Art

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#sff #sffchat #scifisky #amwritingscifi #writingcommunity #amwriting #speculativefiction

Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth, but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed?

Microbes from space have fueled the plots of science fiction mainstays like "Project Hail Mary" and "The Andromeda Strain." But with more space missions launching each year, finding extraterrestrial l...

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This, by Mark Leonard, is really good. His framework of "un-order" rather than disorder comes very close to what I'm getting at with the book, as does the point that historical precedents and IR theory don't help us model today's global configurations. What's missing here is legitimacy, though.

The Abandoned Order

Learning to live in a post-American world.

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there was obviously no creative impetus to making a new Harry Potter but the extent to which they are not even trying to make this look different from the movies is kind of astonishing

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Official Teaser Trailer | HBO Max

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Latest midweek update (first part free). So to show the Chinese the US means business, America sanctioned a few branches of Egypt's second largest bank. That will show'em! phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

Midweek Update #26: The USA Sanctions A Few Branches Of Egypt’s Second Largest Bank!

Also: US Failure To Understand War Reaches A Crisis Stage; Understanding The Price Of Oil

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After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model. www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

The Range Rover Electric Has Finally Arrived

After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.

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"It's not just about the fear being replaced by AI."

Employees Absolutely Loath AI in the Workplace, Survey Finds

The number of workers expressing their hatred of AI in employer reviews is rising swiftly as time goes on.

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THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (Lewis Gilbert, 1976) Sanctimonious billionaire anarchist (Orson Welles) uses nuclear blackmail to force world leaders into performing humiliating acts on television. James Bond (Patrick McGoohan) is tasked with maintaining the status quo - at any cost.

THE EROTIC ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL (Ralph Bakshi, 1978) This controversial X-rated cartoon offered a speculative origin for the relationship of Goldberry & Tom Bombadil that outraged or titillated every Tolkien fan. Nevertheless, it’s cult following has continued to endure.

THE ENCHANTING BUT DECIDEDLY UNEROTIC ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL (Hildebrandt, 1980) Ralph Bakshi’s controversial X-rated 1978 cartoon prompted the Brothers Hildebrandt to animate a wholesome alternative origin for the relationship of Goldberry & Tom Bombadil.

#HobbyGamesRecce Wargames remain abstracted representations of reality...even the geo-political reality of near-future confrontations. Our adversaries are playing our #wargames, but what do our civilian games reveal about our capabilities and assumptions...and do they reveal useful intelligence?

What Do Games Tell Our Adversaries?

“ In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.” — Ovid Members of the Chinese PLA Navy play Sebastian Bae ’ s Littoral Commander:...

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This Thursday, it's the episode you've been waiting for! HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY, STAR TREK! Only on @inglorioustrek.bsky.social

Zathras had answers. We had yelling. That feels like a pretty accurate summary of our "War Without End" Part 2 reaction. 😵‍💫 Come be emotionally compromised with us: youtu.be/mQOvwvv1xzk #Babylon5 #BabbleOn

My piece on how to archive media is evergreen: www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Media Has an Expiration Date

The tragedy occurred as I was rewatching the final season of Six Feet Under, arguably the best television series ever made. Each episode begins with a death, sometimes comical, sometimes deeply affect...

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"Come Out To The Nostromo, We'll Get Together, Have A Few Laughs..."

Did you know that I'm the lead writer on the new ALIEN RPG cinematic adventure 'Operation Leading Edge'? Free League are taking preorders now and it's due for release in Q4 of this year. This is the second adventure I've co-written, the first being 'Rapture Protocol' 2 years ago. It's in the pipe.

Women buried with swords actually used them (how shocking! But also—seriously cool analysis). “These princesses were active practitioners of hunting or athletic skills rather than merely symbolic owners of the weapons found in their tombs,” says Zeinab Hashesh” ⚔️ www.snexplores.org/article/egyp...

Ancient Egyptian princesses may have been skilled warriors

A study of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the weapons buried with some royal women were merely ceremonial.

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Cool event alert. This Saturday, come hang out, drink cocktails, listen to @mikediver.bsky.social, @sammgreer.bsky.social, and myself bullshit about Alien, hear my thoughts on Alien: Isolation 2 (I've played it), have a go on an original 1993 ALIEN 3: THE GUN arcade cabinet(!), and maybe buy a book.

#CNXONL26 Why soft factors are hard and a simple answer youtube.com/shorts/3... #wargaming #professionalwargaming Full video http://youtu.be/LqHB... part of the full donference playlist www.youtube.com/play...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!!!

Here Are the Winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards - Reactor

On Sunday, the 2026 Hugo Awards were presented at LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. The awards were voted on by members of the 2025 and 2026 World Science Fiction Conventions; the ce...

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