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Interesting
There is a Zealand that makes New Zealand new… 🌏
This might not be news to anyone but it was to me, there’s a province in The Netherlands called Zealand and it is the reason that New Zealand is ‘new’ ✨
The first western explores to sight New Zealand were captained by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman in 1642, they named it Nova Zeelandia in Latin, Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch.
Abel Tasman is also the name of a national park in New Zealand, I’ve no doubt this is not a coincidence either.
“Located just northwest of the Belgian city of Antwerp, Zeeland is more than 11,000 miles (17,700 km) from New Zealand. To provide some perspective on that figure, the maximum distance between any two points on Earth is about 12,450 miles (20,000 km), so New Zealand is practically as far as you can be from Zeeland without leaving Earth. The Dutch East India Company certainly got around.”
(read more - Britannica)
We gotta mention it... 🇺🇸
The US Election.
Tomorrow the US will vote to elect a new president and whether we like it or not the world is somewhat invested in the shit show that is US politics, not just as we are stakeholders in their tech industry, pop culture and so much more, but with issues like Climate Change in need of action on a global scale, we have already seen what damage can be done by the actions of one man.
Generally just fearing for the greater good of collective truth, I have been personally following the race like never before. I do think that Biden now has the popular vote sown up, but having said that, because of the electoral college, which I’m dumbfounded by, in theory you only need 22% of the popular vote to win a US presidential race…
Anyway, remember that regardless of what happens or when there is a result announced, that you’ve got your own problems to worry about too, so don’t absorb the worlds burden onto yourself.
Unfortunately related...
QAnon Rebranding
Speaking of collective truths, you have probably been reading about QAnon over the past few months, or maybe you recently watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix, I think mass hysteria around conspiracy theories, driven by social media, is one of the scariest things in the world right now.
If you have a few minutes this video is worth a watch, it’s really interesting.
Vox outline how QAnon has somewhat ‘rebranded’ and become even more mainstream, reacting to the recent crackdown by social media giants on their groups and hashtags, they are now kiboshing legitimate movements with their falsehoods, ironically making it even harder for authorities to actually track down missing children.
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