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Imagine if a candidate for US President had a workable program to ban sludge, that bureaucratic hell companies and the government put us through on support lines, in endless phone menus, and online to make us give up. They'd win 50 states!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

Sources: 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who has gone by "Big Balls" online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/…

‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government
The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name "Big Balls" online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.

Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.