Wilfredo Flores, PhD
@wilflores.bsky.social
Sleepy professor tenure-tracking in the South. π¨π»βπΎ
All opinions are mine, of course, and Iβm probably missing my cat.
www.wilfredoflores.com
All opinions are mine, of course, and Iβm probably missing my cat.
www.wilfredoflores.com
We are pleased to inform you that, to course correct for an over-abundance of gay guys, we're focusing solely on bisexual white women.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We are pleased to inform you that, to course correct for an over-abundance of gay guys, we're focusing solely on bisexual white women.
Girl, if there's one thing white queer scholars will do it's cite an ontological proposition specific to a non-white experience and void the contextual elements to say, "Well, actually, ALL queers."
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Girl, if there's one thing white queer scholars will do it's cite an ontological proposition specific to a non-white experience and void the contextual elements to say, "Well, actually, ALL queers."
I can't wait til my job gets less busy so I can do my job π₯°
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I can't wait til my job gets less busy so I can do my job π₯°
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A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com Itβs been about a year β¦
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
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The second CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom is on Wed, Dec 10 @ 4β5 PM ET.
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The second CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom is on Wed, Dec 10 @ 4β5 PM ET.
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
Working on a conference paper draft, and I had to dive into Notion for something I wrote in grad school. My goodnessβthe whole thing is just AI this and AI that. Gross.
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Working on a conference paper draft, and I had to dive into Notion for something I wrote in grad school. My goodnessβthe whole thing is just AI this and AI that. Gross.
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THIS IS AN ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE! JUST DO THOSE INSTEAD JESUS IN HEAVEN
Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing π«₯
Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers
The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.
www.artnews.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THIS IS AN ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE! JUST DO THOSE INSTEAD JESUS IN HEAVEN
If I see one more person say, βWe have to teach our students how to use AI because theyβll need those *skills* when they get a job.β Girl. Thereβs not going to be jobs for the students.
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If I see one more person say, βWe have to teach our students how to use AI because theyβll need those *skills* when they get a job.β Girl. Thereβs not going to be jobs for the students.
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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AI is not, as techno-libertarians would like you to believe, an act of God to which society must adapt. Itβs an experiment a very small band of very rich people decided to work upon the rest of us. And they have their reasons. Letβs not pretend otherwise.
September 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
AI is not, as techno-libertarians would like you to believe, an act of God to which society must adapt. Itβs an experiment a very small band of very rich people decided to work upon the rest of us. And they have their reasons. Letβs not pretend otherwise.
Right! And then we just send our chat bots to the meeting for us to talk about the survey results π
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Right! And then we just send our chat bots to the meeting for us to talk about the survey results π
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kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what?
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
September 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what?
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
(Iβm not a fan of clunky word processors, and as much as I like the utility of Scrivener, it has SO many buttons and whatnot π΅βπ«)
September 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
(Iβm not a fan of clunky word processors, and as much as I like the utility of Scrivener, it has SO many buttons and whatnot π΅βπ«)
To my surprise, I impressed a data science major who minors in my department by telling them I write everything in Markdown and know it by heart at this point. π€
September 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
To my surprise, I impressed a data science major who minors in my department by telling them I write everything in Markdown and know it by heart at this point. π€
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If youβre on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If youβre on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating
βThe memo β in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Appleβs upcoming new artificial intelligence model β appeared to have been retooled following Trumpβs return to the White Houseβ¦β
The topics include βdiversity,β βelections,β and βvaccines.β
The topics include βdiversity,β βelections,β and βvaccines.β
Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era
Apple policy documents enacted by a subcontractor show how the company shifted its approach to fine-tuning its AI in March, two months after the U.S. president was inaugurated.
www.politico.eu
September 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating
A*** M**** fully worked with OpenAI in the past and quickly carved out a normalizing current wherein people ask themselves, βBut is it maybe OK to feed a student paper to this AI? Is it OK to not disclose that I used AI to co-write this paper?β
September 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A*** M**** fully worked with OpenAI in the past and quickly carved out a normalizing current wherein people ask themselves, βBut is it maybe OK to feed a student paper to this AI? Is it OK to not disclose that I used AI to co-write this paper?β
I see these posts, and Iβm just taken aback by the celebration they receive. That anyone would find meaningful pedagogy by working with AI peddlers from Ed Tech (itself numerous solutions to problems that donβt exist) just blows me away.
September 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I see these posts, and Iβm just taken aback by the celebration they receive. That anyone would find meaningful pedagogy by working with AI peddlers from Ed Tech (itself numerous solutions to problems that donβt exist) just blows me away.
Not to be too shady, but what are we doing when someoneβs work as a professor of rhetoric and composition with AI and writing involves bringing in a bunch of ed tech people into their classroom (which, personally, leaves me incredibly suspicious) AND collaborating with people funded by OpenAI?
September 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Not to be too shady, but what are we doing when someoneβs work as a professor of rhetoric and composition with AI and writing involves bringing in a bunch of ed tech people into their classroom (which, personally, leaves me incredibly suspicious) AND collaborating with people funded by OpenAI?
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
"Assistant Director of AI and Education." What a joke. Lol. Lmao.
August 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Assistant Director of AI and Education." What a joke. Lol. Lmao.
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This is a very writing studies-centered skeet, butβ¦ the way that some in the field are tying themselves into knots to advocate for some βethical usesβ of GenAI really emphasizes the fieldβs shallow investment in anything like βjusticeβ or βdecolonizationβ or βabolition.β
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is a very writing studies-centered skeet, butβ¦ the way that some in the field are tying themselves into knots to advocate for some βethical usesβ of GenAI really emphasizes the fieldβs shallow investment in anything like βjusticeβ or βdecolonizationβ or βabolition.β
Student commented that my class "definitely shaped the way I view the world now." That's all I can hope for in the Current Moment tbh. π₯Ή
July 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Student commented that my class "definitely shaped the way I view the world now." That's all I can hope for in the Current Moment tbh. π₯Ή
Finally got around to seeing my annual review from this past academic year, and I got a "Exceeds Expectations" for research, teaching, and service. π
July 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Finally got around to seeing my annual review from this past academic year, and I got a "Exceeds Expectations" for research, teaching, and service. π