Vast majority of giant redwoods in center of Big Basin Redwoods State Park scorched but still standing
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EthanBaron 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@ethanbaron
Mercury News | tech/trouble/cataclysms | Silicon Valley and beyond
Joined January 2009
- Thread: Black workers at @tesla's big Fremont electric-car factory claim that despite a series of lawsuits alleging widespread and egregious anti-Black racism, discrimination and harassment in the flagship California plant, the abuses haven't stopped 1/17
- Can you see Lake Tahoe? I can’t either. It’s 150 feet away
00:00 - By no means is there a lot going on in downtown Truckee this Sunday morning, as the Lake Tahoe blizzard keeps dumping snow
00:00 - Very big redwood tree stump washed ashore by the storm in front of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk amusement park
- Replying to @annehelenGotta add this one from Bay Area News Group colleague Aric Crabb of CA kids busting out to protest after administration tried to lock them in
- Josh Whitby, co-owner of Zelda’s in Capitola Village, surveys the storm-ravaged wasteland that was once one of the Santa Cruz region’s most popular gathering places. Note the kelp
- A beam from the broken Capitola Wharf smashed by massive seas through the waterfront windows of Zelda’s restaurant in Capitola Village near Santa Cruz
- The two giant redwoods known as the Father and Mother of the Forest look to have lost a bit off their tops and were scorched and lost big limbs but a CA State Parks scientist said today they’d almost certainly survive
- Replying to @ethanbaronWorkers blame CEO @elonmusk for purportedly setting a tone tolerant of racism by saying in an all-hands letter to Tesla workers re: 'historically less represented' groups that if someone treats you badly and sincerely apologizes, you should have a thick skin
- FCC just shot down application by Elon Musk's Starlink to get subsidy to provide rural broadband internet, saying Starlink (and another applicant, LTD Broadband) 'failed to demonstrate (they) could deliver the promised service.'
