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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago

wait wait wait wait wait wait

aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation

it was just next to some single-cell protein things so i assumed they want to just pour a bunch of (glutar-)aldehyde on their food for preservation. wow i hope they have a spare liver, because it would be rough, but no, it's a cryopreservation method, like for tissue samples and so on

they wanted to diy a cryonics in their mobile trailer park with intermittent power from solar panels

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago
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