Second addendum: the San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent writeup on the topic.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ziz-lasota-zizians-rationalism-20063671.php

Sure, I’ll try to make a better writeup soon. In terms of rationalism, forgive me for quoting hacker news, but here is my favorite explaination:

For those who may find this a little foreign, from what I could gather, “Rationality” refers to a post-new-age new techno-religion originating in Northern California, whose soteriology focuses on artificial intelligence as the source of redemption or damnation, whose eschatology comprises of an event called Singularity, which is the accelerated formation of an artificial intelligence entity or entities, and whose normative doctrine focuses on Bayes’ formula as a guiding principle and a particularly technical form of utilitarianism as an organising moral principle. Rationality has several institutions, two of which are named MIRI and CFAR, dedicated to studying the eschatological and normative aspects of the creed, respectively. The website, lesswrong, is a primary publication of Rationality, and its founding canonical texts include a Harry Potter fan fiction novella. It is one of many religions that grew in Northern California over the past sixty years or so, and far from the strangest one.

Holy hell

Google Roko’s basilisk. These people are worse than you think.

Addendum with minimal structure because I am going down the rabbit hole: Bauckhol worked at Jane Street, one of the most prestigious quantitative trading firms. It looks like highly educated, elite killers are becoming more common. I find it fitting that now is the time when the contradictions of capital start to eat away at the labor aristocracy, although they will not develop class consciousness, only stochastic violence. The right will pick up on this story shortly due to the absurd nature and it being a diversion from the Trump-2 disasterclass. Andy Ngo is currently pushing this story quite a bit, although his relevance has faded a bit. It also looks like these weirdos were a known group for a while. Here are a series of unordered links from a few years ago about these wackos.

• https://sinceriously/[dot]fyi/ Ziz’s blog. Not currently functional.
• https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509 2023 article
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/11adows/the_ziz_situation_uh_escalates/ reddit post about aforementioned article

Furthermore, here is a timeline I found on reddit.

Here is an article from rationalists co-ordinating response to this topic. CW rationalism: https://www.lesswrong/[dot]com/posts/PKDbddjdDaPikQT3b/thread-for-sense-making-on-recent-murders-and-how-to-sanely (link redacted due to grade A Silicon Valley Wackos)

Past this point, I am concerned for both my well being and yours, dear reader. For here, we venture into more websites.

https://voidgoddess.org/2023/04/03/from-darkness-lead-me-to-light/ - a personal account about Ziz

https://voidgoddess.org/ziz/ - an archive of Ziz’s works

At this point, I need sleep, but I need to keep gumshoeing. This brings us to hell on the interwebs, x, the everything app. https://nitter.privacydev/[dot]net/Aella_Girl/status/1884481375690223684#m this is a relevant timeline of events and more information. CW almost everything.

Lastly, here is an interview with the writer of voidgoddes.org on the Zizians. It is 4 hours and I pray none of you watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-siR07uD3A&t=1s

Here are Slime Priestess’ social media links for future gumshoeing: X the everything app - https://nitter.privacydev.net/Slimepriestess

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slimepriestess/

LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong/[dot]com/users/hivewired

The only solution to this to put lithium in the bay area water supply. That way I can stop obsessing over this nonsense.

Rationalist (Silicon Valley tech worshiping) adjacent, possibly vegan, possibly trans, death cult kills landlord and (Washington State) border patrol officer. I wish I was editorializing here, but weird things are happening in the tech sphere.

True Anon (intro into rationalism and what is going on) - https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/zizian-murder-cult-1

Newsweek (summary of both murders) - https://www.newsweek.com/death-cult-linked-two-murders-zizians-2023563

AP (Youngblut’s arrest) - https://apnews.com/article/vermont-border-patrol-shooting-youngblut-72c1b68aeb3d52cccb05b6b850d83450

Apollo Mojave (I cannot vouch for the integrity of this source) - https://web.archive.org/web/20250130033312/https://zizians.info/

Open Vallejo (Case overview) - https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

SF Gate (Another case overview) - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-death-cult-zizian-murders-20064333.php

Key Figures:

• Ziz LeSota (née Jack): Leader of the “Zizians”
• Milo Yongblut (né Theresa Yongblut): Alleged killer of Mayland. In custody.
• Ophelia Bauckhol (née Felix Bauckhol): Partner of Milo. Deceased.
• Curtis Lind: Landlord. Deceased.
• David Mayland: Border patrol officer. Deceased.
• Maximillian Snyder: Alleged killer of Lind. In custody.

Note that deadnames of individuals have been included for ease of research. Very few news outlets are using the chosen names of Zizian-related individuals, so their commonly used names have been included.

It is getting late, and I’m going to stop researching this before hallucinations set in, because this is very strange.

Stabbing someone in the heart is also gruesome, so I’m not particularly put off by it

If chess was invented today you’d have a subreddit full of losers who’s sense of humor maxes out with 2. Ke2

You can’t fly a chopper, all you can do is not crash one

JD Vance actually died in the crash, but everyone forgot about him.

Unlimited distillation on KKKlosedAI

The lines are a shitshow, of course. DC airways are hellish (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Helicopter_route_chart%2C_Washington%2C_D.C._LOC_90683484.jpg) and confusing, but the thick blue lines are for where helicopters should fly, the circles are for navigation, and the grey lines are roads and such.

They used airways they were supposed to. They were in DC HELO Route 4.

The Alt right is just the right now. They won a long time ago.

That’s good news, I don’t want my family members losing their jobs

Qwen has always been a good model. I’m excited to see how it runs, especially qwen-2.5-max-coder-instruct:14b if it exists

There is a reason so many tech people call it ClosedAI

deepseek-r1:617b only costs 6,000 to run

Which minors are getting federal funds to transition?

The US military is the definition of an organization with more dollars than sense. The DoD is one of Microsoft AI’s largest clients, defense companies regularly spit out high cost shitboxes as a jobs program, and they are the least cost effective organization in the world.