Another state I tried it in required I make a formal, public declaration in a newspaper or on a TV broadcast or something. I couldn’t just change my username on legal records, I needed to document it publicly for the world to be involved in my business.
To be fair, nobody actually reads the “newspaper of record.” It is generally not the big, famous paper for any given city, like one might assume.
Yep, noone reads those outside of the people who need to have an eye on it and probably the press, but nowadays these things get scraped and processed into some LLM, with the chance of immortalizing your name change in random hallucinations.
To be fair, nobody actually reads the “newspaper of record.” It is generally not the big, famous paper for any given city, like one might assume.
Yep, noone reads those outside of the people who need to have an eye on it and probably the press, but nowadays these things get scraped and processed into some LLM, with the chance of immortalizing your name change in random hallucinations.
And people looking at passport renewals in the USA apparently.