Ziz LaSota joined the rationalist community through its lodestar online forum LessWrong in 2012, when she was in her early 20s. She attended at least one workshop hosted by the Center for Applied ...

After that, Ziz and her remaining associates seem to have dropped off the map. But since then, connections have continued to emerge in other criminal cases. The 2022 murders of Richard and Rita Zajko ...

The group started when Ziz LaSota moved to the Bay Area in 2016 after graduating from the University of Alaska. ... is to vehemently oppose the death of all living creatures, including animals.

A militant vegan, Ziz and her ilk tie their stringent belief in animal rights to a hodgepodge of political and philosophical stances.

Three alleged members of a cult-like group of radical vegans linked to at least six deaths across the U.S. have been arrested ...

“Ziz” was dead. Or at least it seemed that way. Just before midnight on Aug. 19, 2022, the Coast Guard steamed through San ...

After months on the run, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, 33, was arrested Sunday alongside associates Michelle Zajko, 32, and Daniel Blank, 26, in the forests of northwestern Maryland.

A Maryland court on Tuesday ordered a blogger known as Ziz who leads a cultlike group connected to six killings held without bail. The blogger, Jack LaSota, 34, of Berkeley, California, was ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Ziz was dead. Or at least it seemed that way. Just before midnight on Aug. 19, 2022, the Coast Guard steamed through San Francisco Bay after an alarming report. The eccentric ...

Ziz, who expounded her version of the philosophy in her personal blog, was one of a small group of anarchist-leaning rationalists who accused the rest of the community of under-valuing animal ...