Step aboard a Canadian Navy patrol ship and a Coast Guard science vessel for free this Saturday at North Van Shipyards. Just leave the sandals at home: open-toe shoes aren't allowed on the tours.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

Apple's foldable iPhone Duo lands with fixed screen bounds, custom toolbars and hardcoded orientation checks all broken. One developer calls it a new platform with a month's notice, and Xcode 27.1 is required just to use the full display.

— via InfoQ, Sergio De Simone

Since the U.S. entered the Iran conflict, rates have jumped over a full percentage point. That kind of move rarely happens without markets bracing for something bigger.

— via NPR, Stephan Bisaha

Silvana Estrada plays Miami Beach Bandshell Sept. 27 while Paloma Morphy's ZeyZey show slides to Spring 2027, but together they puncture the idea that "Mexican music" means corridos. Estrada says leaving Veracruz for Mexico City was the only reason she got heard at all.

— via Miami New Times, Osvaldo Espino

A Lakewood stage where 10 amateurs perform something for the very first time, no rehearsal safety net. The January debut sold out at 320 people and pushed attendees to quit jobs and enroll in new degrees; the second show hits Wednesday with 220 tickets already gone.

— via Westword, Hannah Metzger

Fifteen years cataloguing one archive: that's how long it took Tom Overton to turn John Berger's papers into a biography. The result traces a writer who gave half his Booker Prize money to the British Black Panthers and spent his career asking how the living owe the dead.

— via The Paris Review, Scott Schomburg

Earl Swift hiked the Appalachian Trail twice, three decades apart, and found smartphones had rewired the experience entirely: hikers now order pizza delivery to remote road crossings, a scene he calls "science fiction" by 1990 standards. He talks structure, truth, and why the trail's two best-known books were written by people who never finished it.

— via Longreads, Longreads

Peter Thiel delivers what the piece calls one of his best outputs yet, packed into fresh material worth digging into.

— via Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen

A fake IT help desk call talked a Seyfarth Shaw employee into emailing client names and Social Security numbers straight to an outside account. No hacking required, and the firm now joins Greenberg Traurig, Quinn Emanuel, McDermott and others on the growing list of Big Law breach disclosures.

— via Above the Law, Staci Zaretsky

Nine months after a social worker was fatally stabbed at San Francisco General, over 100 colleagues held a vigil demanding UCSF fund real safety staffing. State regulators already fined the hospital $130,500 for workplace-violence violations, but workers say improvised trash-can weapons shouldn't be their only defense.

— via Mission Local, Bailey Zitko

A federal judge orders CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO reporters' White House press badges reinstated after Trump moved to bar them by social media post. The ruling finds the administration skipped required notice and hearings, and leaned on a standard so vague it barely counts as one.

— via Volokh Conspiracy (Reason), Eugene Volokh

The excerpt gives no actual content from the UN Security Council discussion, just a bookmark tag and a link placeholder. There is nothing here to summarize.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, S. Abbas Raza

Zheng He's fleets reached Hormuz around 1414 without a single colony; a century later Portugal took the same strait by force and started charging ships to pass. The Strait of Hormuz standoff between the US and Iran is just the newest round in a fight over these waters that's been running for over 600 years.

— via The Conversation — History, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE School of Humanities, IE University; California State University San Marcos

A newly barred woman lawyer got a congratulatory gift from a law partner in 1992: a box of Pamprin, with a note warning her not to become "a bitch of an attorney." She says the joke reveals more about old firm culture than any pants memo ever did.

— via Above the Law, MothersEsquire

This year's Fringe lineup turns sexual assault, terminal illness and addiction into stand-up material. Two performers explain why laughing at the worst moments of your life can be protection, not denial.

— via Billy Penn, Jane M. Von Bergen

Mayor Keith Wilson broke a tie for only the second time ever Wednesday, pushing through Zenith Energy's contract transfer to I Squared Capital without the enforcement measures the public demanded. Also: Portland's police chief now faces three state complaints, and a proposed tax tweak could pull $72 million a year from mega-corporations while zeroing out taxes for 18,000 small businesses.

— via Portland Mercury, Suzette Smith

Nearly one in six children on GLP-1 drugs developed a nutritional deficiency within a year, most often low vitamin D, a new study finds. Only 5% got nutritional counseling within 30 days of starting treatment.

— via ScienceDaily

A new ACLU and Amnesty International report says UCLA's crackdown on its 2024 Gaza encampment, including a police response that left students shot with rubber bullets and beaten with batons, helped pave the way for Trump administration retaliation against campus activism nationwide. Protests have since dropped 64%.

— via LAist

Miami Beach commissioners voted 6-0 to fund 2027 Pride events now, months before a new state law bans such spending. The move covers $376,000 for Pride, HIV outreach and LGBTQ+ business groups, and it's already drawing scrutiny from a state lawmaker.

— via Miami New Times, B. Scott McLendon

Rachel Reid and composer Peter Peter take questions live in Montreal on Sept. 28, backed by four acts whose songs scored the Crave hit "Heated Rivalry." Tickets include a signed hardcover of the novel.

— via CultMTL, Lorraine Carpenter

Trump's approval rating hits 29 percent, free preschool expands statewide, Starbucks quietly shutters 250 more cafes, and a 105-year-old man faces a Nazi war crimes probe. Plus: Mamdani gives away 70,000 opera tickets, and yes, candy corn is good.

— via The Stranger, Megan Seling

St. Paul's police chief is suing Mayor Kaohly Her, alleging she commented on his penis size, touched his thigh twice during a budget meeting, and sent an officer a sexualized meme dubbed "Wiener Wednesday." A city-commissioned probe called her conduct "offensive" but stopped short of finding harassment.

— via Sahan Journal, Mohamed Ibrahim

Eight service members attempted suicide during the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group's deployment, according to NBC News. The carrier, now heading to San Diego, carries five chaplains and a handful of mental health staff for its 5,000-person crew.

— via Small Wars Journal, SWJ Staff

Seven Pueblo County residents are suing San Isabel Electric, claiming overgrown vegetation and unmaintained lines sparked the Aspen Acres fire in two spots along Colorado 165. The blaze burned over 100,000 acres, destroyed at least 850 structures, and now faces at least four lawsuits.

— via Colorado Sun, Olivia Prentzel

Young workers in AI-exposed jobs are seeing hiring drop nearly a fifth below normal, a Stanford analysis finds, as employers let software swallow the entry-level tasks that once taught judgment on the job. One proposal: build supervised "competency blocks" into every AI-enabled hire before the apprenticeship disappears for good.

— via Colorado Sun, Gleb Tsipursky