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

Over several days in early January 2025, witnesses noticed a person in all black looming around Lind’s Vallejo residence. On ...

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 ...

A cross-country investigation broke open in January when one member of the group died and another was arrested after the ...

Ziz was very charismatic for that community ... How is it going to change this movement that's had so much influence in Silicon Valley? I think the one thing it might do is make people look ...

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

The leader of an alleged cult that hoped to usher in a murderous artificial superintelligence a la "Roko's Basilisk" once ...

Intense, robed in black, adopting the name “Ziz" after a comic-series villain and espousing violence against meat eaters, LaSota so unsettled the rationalists that one organization expelled her ...

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 ...

“Ziz tried to create an anti-CFAR/MIRI splinter ... Out of the Twitter Playbook On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Elon Musk’s move to put spending limits on US ...

I admit that Ziz, the leader of the sect ... work in tech companies in Silicon Valley, love rationalist philosophy, and advocate anarchy. A few weeks ago, I published a report about them ...