Online and in certain Bay Area circles LaSota is known as “Ziz,” a charismatic figure who gained a following blogging about her pseudoscientific theories about brain function, her pop culture ...

Jack Lasota, 34, who allegedly leads a group of a few dozen followers known as Zizians, was arrested on Sunday alongside Michelle Zajko, 32, and Daniel Blank, 26, on charges including trespassing and ...

What the Zizians, a trans vegan cult allegedly behind multiple murders, can teach us about radicalization and our tech-addled ...

The “Zizians” are known for their ties to the tech world and militant veganism—and now a nationwide rampage.

But Ziz's attempt to break into Silicon Valley went poorly. According to her blog, she crashed out of job after job and bounced around between insecure temporary housing, all while transitioning ...

Ziz referred to non-vegans as “flesh-eating ... where the group imagined a rent-free life as part of Silicon Valley’s intellectual rationalist scene. “I’m a tugboat captain trying to ...

LaSota, who is transgender, and identifies as a woman, is better known by her online moniker “Ziz.” For years, LaSota has been associated with a loose-knit group that stresses a bizarre form ...

It is the latest twist in a bizarre saga that began in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016 with a split in Silicon Valley’s quirky ‘rationalist’ subculture. Ziz, who expounded her version of ...