In the first public statement since she made headlines, Jack “Ziz” LaSota tells a judge that she’s homeless and pleads for vegan food.

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

What is the Zizian cult? Its an offshoot of a community of individuals who refer to themselves as rationalists. They believe technology will save us.

A charismatic figure known as Ziz is at the center of an investigation spanning multiple states and law enforcement agencies.

The leader of a radical transgender group connected to six murders, including that of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, told a Maryland judge last week, "I haven’t done anything wrong." ...

A solo show by Somerville artist Charlie Dov Schön, “A Brand New Hole in the Sky,” features a lesser-known character from ...

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

I am closely following the murky case of the Zizian cult, a story so illustrative of our times that almost no one dares ...

A traffic stop in Vermont has cracked open a cultlike group called Zizians linked to six deaths in three states.

Court records showed that Ziz, a 34-year-old computer scientist known in court records by her legal name as Jack LaSota, was detained on misdemeanor charges in Allegany County on Sunday evening.