Christine Wenc

Picture of a panel in a conference center. There is a dias with a black curtain at the front, and a gray podium. Behind the dias sits Carmen Maria Machado, a fair-skinned femme wearing glasses with dark hair, Umair Kazi, a brown masc with dark hair, Alex Hanna, a brown butch trans woman with short brown hair, and Vauhini Vara, a brown woman with long black hair wearing a red blouse.

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching.

It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

move slow and repair things

As I like to say, "to what problem is ChatGPT the solution?"

This is the kind of critical AI literacy practice that I'd like to see make its way into schools. It's not about how to best use this or that product; it's about mapping systems of power.

I'm always telling people to read it. Especially when they hit their 50th birthdays : ).

English Majors at Work English Majors at Work: Career and Life Pathways details the professional superpowers—the many marketable skills—gained from studying literature, creative writing, film, and popular culture. It prepar...

Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS:

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Oldster is FANTASTIC! Been a fan for years now

A material studies prof once told my class c. 2000 that "we are actually living in the 19th century." I think of that comment all the time

I’m holding my copy of MYTHOPEDIA by Adrienne Mayor

If you love myths and love reading about the natural world, I highly recommend MYTHOPEDIA by Adrienne Mayor. Organized A to Z, it explores natural phenomena all over the world and related the myths and folklore.

Or where resources are targeted

LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.

This is now my hottest linkedin post ever 😐😐😐

This is obscene, ghastly, unacceptable.

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

this is so ghoulish and disgusting

JFC

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

How I'm Teaching About Generative AI Every choice I make about how to discuss GenAI with my students is predicated on trusting them

New today in TIW: Historian @cjdenial.bsky.social on teaching about AI. "in every iteration of this conversation I have had with students in the last two years, there is one constant: almost no one knows about the ethical issues surrounding GenAI before they delve into the readings I’ve assigned."

My dean asked me to think about what I'd do on campus if I didn't have to worry about anything, and the core of it is that I want to help people notice the invisibilized digital ecosystem in both breadth and depth, and coach them through figuring out what it means to be the person you want to be

Who needs reporters

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

Please comment at "a critical moment" as the FCC considers "satellite proliferation at unprecedented scales and technologies that pose serious risks to the nighttime environment." Comment period for SpaceX closes March 6 & Reflect Orbital March 9. Instructions: darksky.org/news/two-sat...

being talked down to by colleagues who assume my informed resistance to AI is ignorance: a story in many enraging parts

Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game. The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

NEW FROM ME:

While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran

I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game

Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly.

Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it

Democrats: Obama Has Dicked Us Around For Four Years, Now It's Our Turn YouTube video by The Onion

The intro credits on The Onion News Network's "War for the White House" series of videos in 2012 were a parody of this style. Here's one example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwlC...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.