Wilfredo Flores, PhD
@wilflores.bsky.social
Sleepy professor tenure-tracking in the South. 👨🏻🌾
All opinions are mine, of course, and I’m probably missing my cat.
www.wilfredoflores.com
All opinions are mine, of course, and I’m probably missing my cat.
www.wilfredoflores.com
I can't wait til my job gets less busy so I can do my job 🥰
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I can't wait til my job gets less busy so I can do my job 🥰
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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 It’s been about a year …
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 @ 4–5 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 @ 4–5 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 goodness—the 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 goodness—the 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 🫥
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, “We have to teach our students how to use AI because they’ll need those *skills* when they get a job.” Girl. There’s not going to be jobs for the students.
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If I see one more person say, “We have to teach our students how to use AI because they’ll need those *skills* when they get a job.” Girl. There’s 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. It’s an experiment a very small band of very rich people decided to work upon the rest of us. And they have their reasons. Let’s 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. It’s an experiment a very small band of very rich people decided to work upon the rest of us. And they have their reasons. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
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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
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. 🤓
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. 🤓
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re 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
“The memo — in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Apple’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model — appeared to have been retooled following Trump’s return to the White House…”
The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”
The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”
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
Not to be too shady, but what are we doing when someone’s 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 someone’s 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, but… the way that some in the field are tying themselves into knots to advocate for some “ethical uses” of GenAI really emphasizes the field’s shallow investment in anything like “justice” or “decolonization” or “abolition.”
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is a very writing studies-centered skeet, but… the way that some in the field are tying themselves into knots to advocate for some “ethical uses” of GenAI really emphasizes the field’s shallow investment in anything like “justice” or “decolonization” or “abolition.”
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. 🥹
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. 🥹
Finally got around to seeing my annual review from this past academic year, and I got a "Exceeds Expectations" for research, teaching, and service. 😎
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. 😎
Sent an email for a thing—a month after the due date. *Please Clap Jeb Bush GIF*
July 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Sent an email for a thing—a month after the due date. *Please Clap Jeb Bush GIF*
It's always a weird moment to actively hear your work being erased in real time with claims that, "Nobody's really talking about this," when I already published on this.
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's always a weird moment to actively hear your work being erased in real time with claims that, "Nobody's really talking about this," when I already published on this.
The Chicano Manual of Style (is that anything?)
May 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Chicano Manual of Style (is that anything?)
Academic friends who have served on hiring committees: how did y'all report / list that service work on your CV? I have a subsection dedicated to service to my department already, but I'm not sure how I might go about detailing the work (it was a large cluster hire with 10 campus visits 🫨)
May 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Academic friends who have served on hiring committees: how did y'all report / list that service work on your CV? I have a subsection dedicated to service to my department already, but I'm not sure how I might go about detailing the work (it was a large cluster hire with 10 campus visits 🫨)
No shade, but how do we spend an hour talking about AI and writing pedagogy and not talk about the environmental calculus of tech expansionism? #cwcon
May 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
No shade, but how do we spend an hour talking about AI and writing pedagogy and not talk about the environmental calculus of tech expansionism? #cwcon
Girl, all shade, but should we just call it AI and Writing Conference at this point? Not going to any of these AI panels. 😤
May 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Girl, all shade, but should we just call it AI and Writing Conference at this point? Not going to any of these AI panels. 😤