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One of DOGE’s best-known workers Edward Coristine, 19, quits a month after his former boss Elon Musk’s departure

19-year-old Edward Coristine, has resigned from the US government, a White House official said on Tuesday, a month after the acrimonious departure of his former boss Elon Musk.

Last month, Reuters reported that Coristine was one of two Doge associates promoting the use of AI across the federal bureaucracy. Media outlets, including Wired which first reported his departure, revealed that Coristine had been active in a chat room popular with hackers and previously had been fired from a job following an alleged data leak.

In March, Reuters reported that Coristine had provided tech support to a cybercrime gang that had bragged about trafficking in stolen data and harassing an FBI agent.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Do we need any more proof that conservatives shouldn't be treated like adults than a high profile member on their side being named "Big Balls"?

These are children trapped in adult bodies and should never be allowed to wield any sort of power.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 hours ago

19 is barely an adults body. It's just a child being employed by geriatrics.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

Leaving to go be an obnoxious c-suite wannabe somewhere else.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I sure hope cases are opened up against lackeys like this. As long as the real problems are unreachable by the law (like fElon and Taco), making examples of those carrying out this stuff should hopefully give other lackeys pause....

Maybe people are waiting until after Taco is out of power (assuming that happens) so he cannot be pardoned.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I mean, he's some random 19-year-old who worked for Elon before. I doubt that he's personally done anything especially reprehensible at DOGE. The problem isn't so much him as it is other people placing him in the role he was placed in.

If you went to work at American Airlines as a high level executive and hired a 19-year-old who worked for you at some Burger King outlet as a pilot because he's a good guy and you know him and you think that he can learn on the job, the problem here isn't really the 19-year-old. It's you being wildly irresponsible with your hiring.

I wouldn't support beating up on those people for bad decisions on the part of others.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

The current everything at the federal level is corrupt and openly political instead of neutral. Would be unlikely that anything happens as it should for the next 4y at minimum.

[–] dumbass@quokk.au 78 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

This is gonna be one hell of a chapter to read in a history book.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And I thought Deep Throat was funny enough.

[–] dumbass@quokk.au 10 points 7 hours ago

Deep Throat 2: Balls Deep

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 41 points 11 hours ago

The title for the subsection about his inevitable arrest and prosecution will be Jaccuzi: Big Ballz in Hot Water

[–] griff@lemmings.world 4 points 7 hours ago

AKA Medium-Sized Broccoli Stalk

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 41 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

to be 19 and already retired from a position of power in the government

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 59 points 11 hours ago

Not only that, but he probably still has the root password for all those servers DOGE uploaded all the data to using Starlink. (If Elon set it up, though, you know the password is just "S3XYMUSK".)

So, he can go immediately into business as a consultant using/selling that data for maximum gain.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 11 hours ago

Now begins his next 65 years as a private sector lobbyist

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Sounds like DOGE was neutered.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's really the only way to read it. Or guy needs a cancer screening

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

He has the rare double testicular torsion.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Media outlets revealed ...

Reuters reported ...

Does the guardian do any of their own reporting or do they just repeat what other outlets have already printed so they can spread rumours and gossip without fear of being accused of making stuff up?

Not that this isn't true, but it just seems silly that they are just repeating what others have already said.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

That's how they've done it for centuries. Not everyone has a journalist on the ground.

[–] griff@lemmings.world 1 points 7 hours ago

How many media resources does Balls Boy really merit?