“Big Ball” is now in the Social Security Bureau

Edward’s “Big Ball” Coristine, one of the first young technicians to be brought to Elon Musk’s so-called Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE), returned to the government shortly after his resignation.
“Edward Coristine joined the Social Security Agency this week as a special government employee,” SSA spokesman Stephen McGraw told Wired. “His work will focus on improving the functionality of the Social Security website and promoting our mission to provide more effective services to the American people.”
Several sources at SSA told Wired that Coristine appears to be working in person on site at the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland. An SSA employee said they saw Coristine with current X and former Neuralink employee Aram Moghaddassi, currently deployed at the agency. The two were recently spotted at the SSA cafeteria on Monday, although it is not yet clear that the Coral Mine work officially began this week. “Coristine looks nervous and almost awkward,” the SSA source said. “Alam is calling someone… and then said, ‘Yes, I’m with him now,’ laughing at the big ball.”
Coristine and Moghaddassi did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Conristin’s retraining after a White House official told Wade on Tuesday that the 19-year-old resigned from his position in the administration. An official from the Trump administration confirmed to the Wired that Coristine did indeed resign on Monday and was brought back by the SSA later this week.
Coristine became a full-time government employee (GSA) on May 30 on May 30, switching from a restricted special government employee classification to a 130-day time limit. Coristine’s Google Workspace account was linked to GSA as of Tuesday afternoon, and his name did not appear on the list of Doge employees on federal salaries maintained by senior government officials. GSA did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Coristine is one of the few engineers in many government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. International Development Agency, the State Department and Department of Homeland Security. Coristine is not aware of working in SSA before.
Coristine, a 19-year-old high school graduate who worked at Musk’s Neuralink for several months, left on the “big ball” online and did not have the experience of joining the government. He also founded a company called Tesla.Sexy LLC in 2021 and worked for a startup known for hiring Blackhat Hackers. He was reportedly fired for allegedly leaking internal information.
Sahil Lavingia, a former threshold member who first identified in the Department of Veterans Affairs, told Wired that “there is no real connection except Elon in the White House.” Speaking of the all-around meeting with Musk in March, Lavinia said: “The only person in the White House is Katie Miller.” Miller left the White House with Musk and now works for the Cybillionaire.
Richard Pierce, a law professor at George Washington University, told Wired that the White House had no idea that the rehiring of the recently left employees was “abnormal, but it seemed normal for this administration.”