You’re reading The Husk's Friday Saturday edition, our Weekender, a countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.

… things featuring Micronesians

• Former Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine urged the media against perpetuating articles about drowning islands and pushed them to report more on solutions in their climate reporting, according to the East West Center.

• Photographer Floyd Takeuchi will soon exhibit work featuring Micronesian women in Micronesian skirts. Takeuchi wrote in a Facebook post, “The exhibit is meant to challenge Hawaii residents to think about their attitudes (toward) the group.”

• This Nihi video featuring these cool Micronesian kids talking about their favorite foods.

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A post shared by Nihi! | Indigenous Media (@nihikids)

stories that I find fascinating

• This article discusses why Americans distrust daily news. As someone who, admittedly, loves news, I think about the future of news as a business and how people consume news a lot. So this story from The Guardian was very interesting to me. I thought I’d share. I’ve worked in legacy print media for most of my adult life so I’m always interested in the trajectory of newspapers, how companies fight to stay alive, and the ways digital spaces clobber papers.

• So Google has apparently built sentient AI, LaMDA, according to former Google software engineer Blake Lemoine. I watched Blake on the H3 podcast, which was a compelling interview. If AI and the future of AI is of any interest to you, I highly recommend. ¹

new segment

• In an effort to spread one of life’s hottest commodities, good vibes, I will leave you with one song, curated by my brother Henry, at the end of each Weekender issue to ease you into the weekend.² This week’s send-off song is by V6 Production, which has been in Henry’s rotation heavily lately. Perhaps we build this into a playlist? Let me know your thoughts.

• V6 Production- Mwomwehda remixed

Have a great weekend!