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Venture capital is having a bad time — and AI isn’t going to fix it (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oof, that DEAL act thingy looks gross.

That would take us right into Albanian pyramid scheme territory.

[–] mii@awful.systems 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders (DEAL) Act

That can’t possibly be the actual name of that thing. It sounds like something out of North Korea. The fuck are these people smoking?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s something of a tradition to occasionally frankenstein together a backronym for bills/acts. Feel free to search “worst US backronyms” or similar for more!

[–] m@blat.at 17 points 3 weeks ago

@swlabr @mii One of the most notorious is the USA PATRIOT Act - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. Really.

Its counterpart in UK legislation is the Terrorism Act 2000, which manages to be both more informative and much, much shorter.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

There's a venn diagramm with politicians and astronomers and the overlap is god-awful acronyms? TIL!

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

Is there any reporting on it? I can't find literally any article beyond the raw text.