Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 possible TLAs (twitter.com)

Maybe the folks at MIT should look in to it

Time to move to ETLAs.

For another fun dive into three-letter acronyms, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_airport_code#Naming_conve... is fascinating!

Looks like we need to move on to the four letter acronym domain space, the FLADS.

In other news, scientific papers have failed to use 6% of the possible TLAs.

As the web matures it is time now to abandon acronyms and most other forms of abbreviation, in my opinion. At best they confuse at least some people and at worst they are shibboleths. Little would be lost since those rare abbreviations which turn out to be genuinely useful and communicative will make it into the dictionaries regardless of what we do.