Friday Links

1. Do you want to look at 800 years of English handwriting? You know you do.

2. A detailed guide on how to leave the leaves where you can and what to do with them when you need to clean them up from places like drains and sidewalks. I did not know this: “The space under a tree is an especially critical place to keep leaves since many butterfly and moth caterpillars drop down from trees into the leaf litter to pupate and overwinter.”

3. A Butlerian Jihad against AI sounds pretty good, honestly: Screenshot of a post that reads, "me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly
me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful Al assistant that's inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh
Now I Get It"