• Submerged permafrost releasing methane, but not into the atmosphere (Ars Technica) Basically, plankton is eating it, for now at least.
• Open Letter to the Airbnb Community About Building a 21st Century Company (Airbnb Newsroom) If you play bullsh%$ bingo, you just won.
• Mass Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both? (People’s Policy Project) It turns out that if you correct for socioeconomic class, the incarceration rates are more similar, though not the same.  It’s both a war on blacks and a war on the poor.
• Report: Labor Department hiding unfavorable report on impacts of tip-pooling rule (The Hill) Trump is objectively pro wage theft.
• Finally, Facial Recognition for Cows Is Here (Gizmodo) Paging Gary Larson.
• Study shows fracking and earthquakes in Oklahoma strongly linked (Business Insider) More earthquakes than California. Fracking is really bad news.
• Study finds humanities majors land jobs and are happy in them (Inside Higher Education) Not a surprise. University as a vocational school has always been a sucker bet.

Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek: