Insecurity Princess ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ”ฅ

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I write about power dynamics in engineering management

Insecurity Princess. Clod Security leader. Queer femme mathematician. Dismantling systemic barriers in tech, one fencepost problem at a time

Wife of https://infosec.exchange/@sophieschmieg

Websitehttps://www.sar.ai
LocationBay Area, CA, USA
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Leadership Writinghttps://mitm.blog
Security Writinghttps://keymaterial.net
Pronounsshe/her

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@pixelkabinett/116756248110457483

I just played the Mazestalker demo and it is really good :O If you felt like there was a void in your life because the Mario RPG team never made a Zelda I've got great news

I've been rather absent from the #microfiction tag. Here's a dozen of my oldest tiny stories, including the first one I ever posted. Can you guess which one it is?

https://mhthaung.neocities.org/stories2026/dozen001

First dozen

My day is often brightened by reading #MicroFiction from Kit Bashir's ( @Unixbigot ) #PowerOnStoryToot

I'm glad that people like her share their writing with the world ๐Ÿฅฐ

It was the world's first interspecies conference.

"First," the elf said, "let's agree we all have a right to exist."

The goblin nodded.

The orc looked at elves and humans and growled "Nah!"

The human looked at orcs and goblins and said "No."

"For fucks sake," the elf and goblin said in unison.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

โ€œI-is that a guillotine? I thought this was going to be a bloodless revolution!โ€

โ€œIt used to be a guillotine; weโ€™ve removed the blade and added a rack and pinion drive instead of gravityโ€

โ€œOoo-kay, so what does it do now?โ€

โ€œIt implants a prosthetic empathy chip in the brainstemโ€

โ€œYou couldnโ€™t just use a hypodermic implanter?โ€

โ€œOh, for sureโ€”but understanding that there /could/ have been a blade there is part of the treatment. They all /say/ theyโ€™d rather we amputated their head than their billions, but thatโ€™s the sickness talking.โ€

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Bloodless_Revolution

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@sophieschmieg @saraislet

"Look at that caboose!"

"I know! Oh wait you meant the train"

Oof, this is a gut punch of overflowing accuracy

"Each elimination looks rational in isolation. The second-order effects arrive six months later, and by then nobody connects the locust swarm to the dead sparrows."

"The Great Leap Forwardโ€™s famine didnโ€™t arrive immediately. For a while, the numbers looked spectacular. Every province reported record harvests. Leadership was pleased. The requisitions increased.

The famine came when the real grain ran out but the reported grain kept flowing upward.

Weโ€™re still in the reporting phase. The dashboards are green. Adoption is up and to the right. Every team reports productivity gains that, if summed across the company, would imply engineers are shipping at 300% efficiency while somehow still missing the same deadlines."
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

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@saraislet : Look at that girl's tattoo
Me: sorry, missed it
@saraislet : Look at those boots!
Me: sorry, missed it
@saraislet : Look atโ€ฆ
Me: we're at a train station. Just assume that I'm distracted by trains.