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Rendellotoday at 4:34 PM1 replyview on HN

I love a good tortured acronym:

> SHAKEN system, short for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs [...]

> The name was inspired by Ian Fleming's character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis "shaken, not stirred". STIR having existed already, the creators of SHAKEN "tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

(Unrelatedly, seeing a slash used casually within the URL slug feels so wrong)


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idiotsecanttoday at 5:11 PM

I like backronyms because it tells me someone with a soul was involved

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