Andrew Westlund
Vegan Siths: The Rise and Fall of the Zizians
Vegan Siths is a serialized documentary series tracking the rise and violent collapse of the ”Zizians”, a fringe network of militant vegan computer whizzes led by a disillusioned software developer named Ziz LaSota. Hosted by Andrew Westlund, this limited series explores how an offshoot of a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence safety movement traded philosophy for extreme paranoia, isolation, and sleep-deprivation experiments. Over several episodes, Vegan Siths follows the digital breadcrumbs of a utopian experiment that spiraled into faked deaths, tactical ambushes, and a trail of blood st...
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Andrew Westlund
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Latest episode
Jul 3, 2026
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Episodes
Chapter 2: The Landlord 03.07.2026 42:27
In Chapter 2, we follow the Zizians from a rusted-out tugboat to an even stranger address: an 82-year-old landlord's trailer yard in Vallejo, California. Curtis Lind was a retired crane operator with a soft spot for outcasts. He didn't seem to mind that most of his new tenants were transgender women. But once COVID hit and the rent stopped coming, in Lind's eyes, they weren't tenants anymore - the...
Chapter 1: Origin Story 24.06.2026 45:06
In the premiere episode of this limited series, host Andrew Westlund follows the digital breadcrumbs back to the very beginning of the "Zizians", a fringe network of militant vegan computer whizzes. We trace the early life of their de facto leader, Jack "Ziz" LaSota, from a gifted but troubled childhood in Alaska to her disillusionment with the Bay Area tech scene. After walking away from conventi...
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