I’ve written a couple of times about this group of mostly trans rationalists who have been connected to a number of murders. It’s difficult to briefly summarize the group’s long and strange history but their leader is a trans woman who was born Jack Amadeus LaSota who became trans sometime after college and began going by the name “Ziz.”
Ziz attracted a group of other trans people who were associated with a movement called rationalism which was developing in the Bay Area, especially around Berkeley. Though highly educated, Ziz and members of his group seemed to want to live off the grid without being burdened by the need for careers or even regular jobs. Initially they intended to create a flotilla of boats captained by rationalists and they bought an old tug boat in Alaska and sailed it to California.
The old boat eventually became too much for them and…
