Mia Tsai

Hundreds rally in downtown Atlanta against Trump and ICE Protesters decried ICE’s ‘secret police’ tactics

Hundreds rally in downtown Atlanta against Trump and ICE

Protesters decried ICE’s ‘secret police’ tactics

I don’t have a fancy tour card because it took forever for a lot of my events to be announced, but me and THE PAYBACK will be at:

7/15, Skylight Books, LA w/Rufi Thorpe

8/11, Franklin Park, Brooklyn, NY

8/23, San Diego Book Festival

9/6, National Book Festival, Washington DC

9/21 (secret)

Get more from Fran Wilde on Patreon Ink & Pixels, Whimsy & Words

Me: huh where did that $ go…

Surprise med costs, trickling in, in random amounts: muahaha.

Anyway! I have a Patreon! It’s great and has a library of writing prompts, craft essays, whimsy, plus free write ins and a very small group of mentorships! Come on by!

www.patreon.com/c/franwilde

A table full of books of Marty’s and stickers making it look like chickenpox

Marty, a man in a blue mask with a colorful shirt, posing with his friend Christine, a woman in a colorful dress and glasses

A Waffle House coffee cup

Breakfast foods!!

A selection of photos to illustrate the wonderful whirlwind that was New Voices, New Rooms in Atlanta! My table, complete with chickenfox spots, posing with the incredible @readingismagical.bsky.social, and my mindblowing Waffle House experience with @itsamia.bsky.social! More soon, but so grateful!

that was a hell of a journey.

AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

Counterpoint: while the language of the ad is pretty damn clear (surprise! it’s eugenics), it’s also occurring alongside the broader normalization of white nationalist and eugenics-adjacent beliefs (consider the popularization of phrases like high/low-iq individual and the return of the r word).

Writers With Drinks | Town Hall Seattle An evening of queer speculative fiction! Whether you’re a Seattle local or you’re in town for Worldcon, enjoy readings by six authors of queer science fiction and fantasy whose work spans galaxies and...

ICYMI we're holding a special Writers With Drinks in Seattle, featuring "superstars of queer SFF": Cecilia Tan, Andrea Hairston, Becky Chambers, me, Annalee Newitz and Darcie Little Badger!

It's Thurs 8/14 at 7ish. There will be queer vendors and fun stuff.

Tickets are selling fast — RSVP now! <3

anybody gone to trap wingz? it's on piedmont inside a circle K.

i'm sorry there's also a trap wingz and you know i gotta go

waiting for the skramps and wangs restaurant to open. got cash in hand

it finally happened. spotted in atlanta: a wings restaurant named Chicken WANGS. can't seem to find it on a search, but i do see Vegan Wangs and Lit Ass Wings

Nooo i want tash to thrive, she is my favorite

i cannot imagine how difficult it is to be a kid who wants to please parents, as kids often do, but also cannot interact with the food in any way, thus making the parents upset. and then everyone is upset and the relationship with food worsens.

literally my child would rather starve than "tough it out" and eat the food she's averse to so good job to that guy, i guess?

The whole AMC was going "noooooo" lmao

Can't wait!!!

Other books you may be interested in:

SLIME, Susanne Wedlich
LET'S BECOME FUNGAL!, Yasmine Ostendorf Rodríguez

thank you! yes, ENTANGLED LIFE is in the reference list in the back!

ENTANGLED LIFE catches another! Welcome! You should listen to Cosmo Sheldrake's music as well - he's Merlin's brother and the music is delightful, quirky, and brilliant.

1. The collective gasp that went up when Killmonger said, "Hey, Auntie," in Black Panther

2. The loud groaning at the Rey and Kylo thing at the end of Rise of Skywalker or whatever it was called

I found her gofundme! She's already raised 41.5k of her 45k goal for gas, vehicle maintenance, phone/internet costs (for posting the videos), food and supply drives for the community, and emergency funds in case she gets into legal trouble:

one does not become. one simply is. are you a girl? you are worth fighting for.

it was originally longer and i had to cut material 😅 and i also have more fake journals in a list i'm itching to deploy for the next one!

It’s my birthday celebration week . This is what I need . Imma go scream and cry and yell because the world is in fire

And people called me worse than Nazis

They got the Nazis

This is amazing!!!

<3 enjoy!

paperback of Sangu Mandanna's A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping held up again a rainbow shelf. the cover is pink with a cottage on a green hill behind a fence, with a man behind the fence and a woman in front of the fence with a fox at her side and an undead rooster nearby

hardcover of Mia Tsai's The Memory Hunters, held up against a rainbow shelf. The cover is dark red, with paler red fungi growing on branches and the faint outline of branches and fungi that are no longer there

hardcover of J.R. Dawson's The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World, held up in front of a rainbow shelf. The cover is dark blue, a view of a lighthouse in the misty evening through a window and stars overhead through a skylight

at long last, my preorders have returned from war!!

- A WITCH'S GUIDE TO MAGICAL INNKEEPING by Sangu Mandanna
- THE MEMORY HUNTERS by @itsamia.bsky.social
- THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by @jrdawson.bsky.social

we're on right now!

i thought we established that to be a man, you must:
- be swift a coursing river
- have the force of a great typhoon
- have the strength of a raging fire
- be as mysterious as the dark side of the moon