Medical Privacy Used to Only Matter Before Your Tesla Killed You in a Fire. Officials Say That’s Changing.
BAY AREA, CA — In a groundbreaking investigation following recent tragic events, law enforcement has begun retroactively testing all Cybertruck purchasers at their time of purchase. The angular low-quality steel body panels made this possible because, as officer Saucepants of Alameda police put it, “there has not yet been a Cybertruck purchased without significant loss of blood.”
Eleanor Musktinez, a consumer psychologist who definitely doesn’t exist, said “we’re not just going to scrutinize people when they abruptly die in a Cybertruck fire, as they all will. No, we need to know what substances they abused when they made the stupidest decision of their life to buy a Tesla”.
The world renowned expert from Austin, Texas added “We must know what substances could possibly influence someone to spend over $100,000 on a vehicle that appears to have been designed by a toddler who just discovered a ruler, and by that I mean totalitarianism.”
The investigation has sparked calls for mandatory 72-hour waiting periods and comprehensive drug screening with psychological evaluations before allowing anyone to purchase a vehicle that screams “South African apartheid vigilante truck”.
Vehicle safety experts are particularly concerned about the “completely normal and definitely sober” decision to make a vehicle out of leftover SpaceX materials subsidized by taxpayers that are so rigid emergency responders need “equipment from the middle ages” to extract passengers in the event of a crash.
“We’re seeing a disturbing pattern of media outlets focusing on private medical information of crash victims while ignoring the real elephant in the room,” noted fictional automotive journalist James Richardson. “Perhaps instead of posthumously violating medical privacy to detail how much pain was felt when being burned to death, we should ask why anyone thought it was a good idea to sell a vehicle that turns into a crematorium on wheels at the slightest provocation.”
[Note: While using satire to highlight serious issues, this piece aims to redirect attention back to vehicle safety concerns while criticizing the egregiously inappropriate medical privacy violations of the victims. If a victim operating the vehicle can’t open a Tesla door during sudden combustion, it’s a death trap, full stop. The true tragedy here is safety design flaws that deserve serious investigation into preventing similar incidents in the future.]
The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says she has thought about him every day since his death exactly a year ago.
Writing on Instagram, Yulia Navalnaya said: “Love you so much, miss you so much.”
Staunch Putin critic Mr Navalny, 47, died mysteriously in an Arctic penal colony on 16 February 2024. His body is buried at Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow. The politician, who campaigned against official corruption and led major anti-Kremlin protests, was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism.
Late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died “because he fought for democracy and freedom in Russia,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the first anniversary of the opposition leader’s death.
Navalny died in a Russian Arctic penal colony on February 16 last year. His supporters believe his death came following direct orders from the Kremlin.
In stark contrast, an American politician who has changed his identity multiple times and lately goes by J.D. Vance while sitting in the Vice President’s chair, have disrespected Navalny’s death with utter indifference.
We know Navalny died, because we know Putin is a brutal guy, but I knew Putin was a brutal guy a year ago and I know he will be a brutal guy a year from now. […] A first-time election candidate who shot to fame for his [fictionalized racist] 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, [Vance has changed his name at least three times and] has become a staunch defender of former U.S. President Donald Trump, despite previously describing himself as a “never-Trumper.”
“[Putin’s] main gripe with me is that he’ll go down in history as a poisoner,” Navalny told the court scornfully. “We had Alexander the Liberator, Yaroslav the Wise, and we will have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner.” Underpants had become a social media meme in Russia after Navalny carried out a telephone sting in December 2020 on a Russian FSB state security agent, who revealed that Novichok, a highly toxic Russian chemical weapon, had been smeared on Navalny’s underwear.
The deeper story lies in how Vance and Navalny approach truth and power in completely opposite ways. As records show:
Navalny’s fate was terrible, and instructive. No radical, he tried to reform Russia from within. His Anti-Corruption Foundation published factual investigations into official wrongdoing. He ran for mayor of Moscow in 2013. But increased prominence brought increased persecution, and he was barred from the 2018 presidential election. More than anything, perhaps, he was a patriot, principled, charismatic, popular and humorous – everything Putin is not. In 2020 Navalny almost died, poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent. In 2021, he was rearrested, jailed, removed to the Polar Wolf Arctic camp, isolated, silenced and killed.
The contrast couldn’t be clearer: one man died maintaining his principles despite assassination attempts and imprisonment, while another treats principles as adjustable accessories to personal ambition.
Navalny built his career on factual investigations and transparency; Vance built his on political theater – shifting positions as convenience dictates. It’s a stark lesson in two models of leadership: one anchored in consistent values and public service, the other in political expediency and self-interest.
A fatal confrontation on the Vermont border has exposed how Silicon Valley’s elitist tech immorality can spiral rapidly into real-world harms to society. This isn’t about innovation – national security experts must acknowledge groups exploiting technological complexity mask straightforward domestic terrorism. The same people who brought you FTX and Musk’s teenage “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) – which purged federal experts while breaching and leaking government systems in a Khmer Rouge-style destruction of expertise are spawning predictable outcomes: from massive financial fraud and incompetent breaches of federal systems to gun-toting assassins, all are powered by the same bogus magical technology thinking.
What began in high wealth individual rationalist circles – where tech elites debated ethics, consciousness, and societal redesign between Burning Man trips – allegedly has led to at least seven dead across three states at the hands of radicalized militant technologists. This follows a pattern in history where domain shifts in technology repeatedly bring with them the threat of trojan horses with destructive aims masquerading as a gift of progress.
2019 Sonoma County Sheriff’s office booking mug shots of (from top left) Jack LaSota, Alexander Leatham, Emma Borhanian and (bottom left) Gwen Danielson, court appearance of Maximilian Snyder and a Newport City Inn surveillance video image of Teresa Youngblut. LaSota is a technologist known as “Ziz”, and they’re his “Zizians” (AP Photo)
Snyder and Youngblut both attended Lakeside School, a private high school in Seattle. Snyder studied computer science at the University of Oxford, according to his LinkedIn profile, and in 2023 won $11,000 in an artificial intelligence research competition. Youngblut described herself on social media as a computer science student at the University of Washington.
They formed a group called the Zizians out of the same extremist anti-government soup that produced today’s techno-utopian billionaires. Like Elon Musk’s “DOGEan” teenagers destroying federal expertise in the false name of “efficiency” while breaching secure systems, or his dire warnings about “woke” while he soaks up government handouts, or Peter Thiel’s quest for a sprawling intelligence empire to become a secretive techno-king, they questioned society’s basic moral frameworks and why they should abide by any laws. But where the cunning dishonestly that laundered apartheid wealth enabled South African-born tech leaders to pivot such thoughts into destabilizing and capturing the entire American state, these Zizians chose instead a far more obvious and localized violent path.
[Jessica Taylor, an AI researcher who met LaSota both in person and online through the rationalist community] said Ziz adherents use the rationalist ideology as a reason to commit violence. “Stuff like, thinking it’s reasonable to avoid paying rent and defend oneself from being evicted,” she said.
Their leader, Jack Amadeus “Ziz” LaSota, openly explored what would happen if society were stripped of conventional morality. The group attracted high performing accomplished members – Big Tech engineers, Oxford-educated data scientists, competition-winning mathematicians. They first attempted to escape society via a “Rationalist Fleet”, an ill-fated tugboat scheme reminiscent of many earlier Silicon Valley attempts at autonomous zones.
Elon Musk called his fantasy world “Mars Technocracy” (to invalidate laws).
Peter Thiel called his fantasy world seasteading (to invalidate laws).
The Zizian inexperience and incompetence combined with an ill-conceived autonomous society-on-a-boat plan sank the whole thing, literally. Unlike Musk and Thiel however, they lacked an “invisible” empire that shared a particular vision of “investment” curated through growing up in apartheid South Africa. In other words, the Zizian’s have been disadvantaged in their domestic terrorism approach to unraveling the American state, as minor operators lacking Musk and Thiel’s heavy use of back-room deals for a technology-driven race war.
When the laws of physics forced a Zizian setback it only accelerated the group’s descent into more anti-law madness (e.g. how Elon Musk reframes his increasingly obvious failures at Tesla and SpaceX into investment “opportunities” for even more and larger “rapid disassembly” leading to death). Their protests against rationalist communities turned into extremist angry outbursts and confrontations (e.g. how Elon Musk throws angry Nazi salutes and angrily campaigns for AfD – Nazi party – to take control over Germany). Zizian confrontations led to individual acts of sloppy self-incriminating violence. A landlord serving an eviction for unpaid rent ended in a sword fight, a gun fight and then assassination. An elderly Pennsylvania couple was assassinated. A military veteran serving as a Border Patrol agent doing routine paperwork died in an abrupt fire-fight.
During a records check, the unidentified female passenger was removed from the vehicle for further questioning, broke free, and began shooting at the agents, the incident report shows. After the female suspect was hit by return fire, Bauckholt emerged from the vehicle and also began firing on the agents. He sustained gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead.
This Vermont tragedy at the border has been generating the most news of all because the German “wiz” mathematician Ophelia Bauckholt and Teresa Youngblut had wrapped cellphones in foil while wearing tactical gear garnished by open carry guns. It exemplifies how child-like fascination with technical sophistication as a form of privileged power feeds into anti-government technologist madness.
Authorities who searched the car found a ballistic helmet, night-vision goggles, respirators and ammunition, the FBI said. They also found two-way radios and used shooting range targets.
Allegedly Elon Musk had in mind a famous 1994 fire-fight with police, which led to sudden death of South African domestic terrorists (AWB), when he fraudulently marketed his latest Swasticar as magically bullet-proof.
The fetish of fast in guns, encryption protocols and cryptocurrency operations reflected the mindset as DOGEans who breached federal systems, and the billion-dollar crypto frauds, as the same pseudo-super-society-hacker fantasy expressed through different tools. Their sloppy tradecraft and tactical mistakes repeatedly reveal what happens when technological magical thinking meets physical reality.
The pattern is an inevitable outcome of Silicon Valley’s tendency to view society as a system to be hacked and disabled – from DOGEans purging government expertise like digital Khmer Rouge to Zizians taking up arms – whether through market manipulation or direct violence. When young privilege-driven technical minds untether from conventional morality, the results can be deadly. The same drive to disrupt and rebuild, which creates billion-dollar frauds who capture federal politicians to destroy federal aid, also can turn into targeted murder and stoke local chaos.
Remember the Rajneeshees? They at least needed a physical compound. These new tech cult killers are more dangerous – they’re nomadic, using technology as their virtual compound, armed with both Python and pistols, treating America like their personal hackathon project gone catastrophically wrong. The same mindset that leads some to build racist digital empires to destroy lives at the national-level leads others to pull physical triggers in a pointless assassination.
Zizian investigations at the local level continue across jurisdictions, while DOGE’s teenage destructive force gets away with systematically dismantling federal expertise. Four Zizian group members sit in custody on murder charges. Three remain at large, including LaSota. The broader question remains: how many other groups are following similar philosophical paths toward anti-government violence?
The real horror isn’t just the body count – it’s how this fits a pattern. From DOGE’s teenage purge of government expertise to cryptocurrency schemes that vaporize retirement savings, Silicon Valley’s rationalist communities keep “exploring how to rebuild society’s ethical frameworks.” Most channel these ideas into lossy startups and wacky manifestos that drain investors. But as the Zizian bloodshed shows, some experiments in moral philosophy end not just in huge stock fraud but in body counts.
Next time your local teenage tech billionaire talks about redesigning society’s moral framework, remember: whether through market manipulation or direct violence, it’s really about insecure kids of privilege using technology as their magical shield against accountability, leading inevitably to violence against society – sometimes financial, sometimes physical, always destructive terrorism.
Technological innovations can easily mask dual purposes: the printing press enabled both enlightenment and racist propaganda, gunpowder birthed both festive fireworks and modern warfare, and machine guns sold as tools of colonial control using automation became instruments of mass trench death in WWI and a genocidal Holocaust. What’s marketed as progress often conceals potential for accelerated destruction where left unchecked.
When Donald Trump announced his abrupt seizure of the Kennedy Center this week, installing himself as chairman and replacing the board of trustees with his followers, many viewed it as a tangent to his usual chaotic news pump cycles.
Until a week ago, it was unthinkable that the president of the United States would take direct control of the nonpartisan Kennedy Center for the Arts, fire board members not deemed personally loyal to him, replace them with members of his inner circle and install a widely disliked political operative with little experience in the arts as interim director. But now the thought has been thought,
However, for those who study how cultural institutions weather political storms, the warning signs of totalitarianism are unmistakable.
Cultural venues are like the canaries in coal mines – their health tells us about the air we’re all about to breathe. The Kennedy Center’s transformation follows a disturbingly familiar playbook: administrative changes first, cultural shifts later.
The immediate cancellation of “Finn,” a children’s musical about a shark exploring identity, wasn’t by accident. Youth programming often takes the first hit when institutions begin to change – reshape the future by controlling what children see.
The exodus of artists speaks volumes. Issa Rae cancelled her sold-out show. Shonda Rhimes resigned as treasurer. Ben Folds stepped down from the National Symphony Orchestra. Renée Fleming departed her artistic adviser role. These are a vote of no confidence from America’s cultural leaders. They see the dying canary up close and are wise to flee, to warn others of what’s coming.
History teaches us that institutional capture starts quietly. It begins with board changes, programming “reviews,” and administrative restructuring, with early censorship. By the time the dictatorship rolls, the infrastructure for cultural control is already in place.
The Kennedy Center transformation isn’t following the playbook of outright suppression – it’s following the more subtle playbook of institutional realignment into autocracy.
Trump’s statement that “it’s not going to be woke” might sound like classic McCarthyist rhetoric echoing Nazi Germany. But when coupled with administrative seizure of one of America’s premier cultural institutions, it signals something far more ominous than even “black ball” tactics: the beginning of total national programmatic control over artistic expression.
And by that I mean hate speech is being normalized again. It’s like Trump will say to the board “they wanted to convince people that lead in water is bad, so we’re going to say lead in water is good. Same thing, right?!”
Truth Inversion Attack
Stage 1: Scientific Reality
“Lead in drinking water causes severe health problems, especially in children’s developing brains.”
Stage 2: Manufactured Doubt
“Some say lead is harmful, others say we need more research. Let’s hear both sides.”
Stage 3: False Equivalence
“Many people grew up with lead pipes and turned out fine. Are we being too cautious?”
Stage 4: Truth Inversion
“Anti-lead activists are trying to destroy our infrastructure and way of life. We won’t let them.”
When cultural institutions are captured, this inversion gets normalized through programming, exhibits, and “balanced” discussions that present harmful misinformation as equally valid to scientific fact.
The question isn’t about whether state driven control and censorship is coming – it’s here already. The question is who will stop the spread to other cultural institutions. Who will heed the warning, before Trump air becomes toxic to everyone.
Nazi Timeline in Takeover of Cultural Institutions
1933
March: Creation of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels, giving him control over all cultural activities
April: “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” enables removal of Jewish people and political opponents from cultural institutions
September: Establishment of the Reich Chamber of Culture (Reichskulturkammer), requiring all artists to be members to work professionally
1934
Reich Chamber of Music (Reichsmusikkammer) under Richard Strauss begins enforcing “aryanization” of musical institutions
Jewish musicians and composers are banned from performing in public
Musical works by Jewish composers like Mendelssohn and Mahler are banned
1935
Reich Chamber of Fine Arts (Reichskammer der bildenden Künste) tightens control over all visual artists
“Degenerate Art” campaign begins, targeting modern art movements
Jewish art dealers are forced to close or “aryanize” their galleries
1936
House of German Art begins construction in Munich as showcase for “approved” Nazi art
Systematic removal of modern art from state museums accelerates
Jewish art collectors are pressured to sell their collections at fraction of value
1937
“Degenerate Art” exhibition opens in Munich, meant to ridicule modern art
Over 16,000 works of modern art are confiscated from museums
Parallel “Great German Art Exhibition” displays Nazi-approved classical style works
1938
November: Kristallnacht leads to destruction of Jewish-owned galleries and music shops
Remaining Jewish cultural professionals are banned from all work
“Aryanization” of cultural institutions is essentially complete
1939
Reich Chamber of Culture has full control over all artistic production
Art and music are fully incorporated into propaganda apparatus
Cultural institutions are aligned with Nazi ideology of racial supremacy