Abigail Modaff
@abigailmodaff.bsky.social
American historian working on a book about women’s book clubs. All posts my own, not my employer’s.
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If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
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The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.
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The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
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The act of writing the crap is IMPORTANT. I struggled with it because I knew something needed to be there. Something important. Something that would establish (A, B, C, and D).
I did not have the right form. I did not have the right set up. I did not have the right tension in place before hand.
I did not have the right form. I did not have the right set up. I did not have the right tension in place before hand.
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The act of writing the crap is IMPORTANT. I struggled with it because I knew something needed to be there. Something important. Something that would establish (A, B, C, and D).
I did not have the right form. I did not have the right set up. I did not have the right tension in place before hand.
I did not have the right form. I did not have the right set up. I did not have the right tension in place before hand.
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We have long-established technologies for getting a quick glimpse - abstracts for articles, tables of contents and intros for books. This is a solved problem.
Moreover LLM summaries routinely get it wrong! They take a title etc. and backfill from CW thereby missing whatever is new.
Moreover LLM summaries routinely get it wrong! They take a title etc. and backfill from CW thereby missing whatever is new.
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
We have long-established technologies for getting a quick glimpse - abstracts for articles, tables of contents and intros for books. This is a solved problem.
Moreover LLM summaries routinely get it wrong! They take a title etc. and backfill from CW thereby missing whatever is new.
Moreover LLM summaries routinely get it wrong! They take a title etc. and backfill from CW thereby missing whatever is new.