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@ Chuck Darwin
2025-02-23 15:57:40
Vegan computer savants with Bay Area ties linked to deaths across U.S., authorities say
As he prepared to give up the beloved pre-WWII-era ship he lived on in Half Moon Bay and move into a trailer on a lot he owned in this scrappy city on San Pablo Bay,
Curt Lind made a fateful decision.
Lind, then in his late 70s, invited an eccentric group of folks living on a neighboring vintage tugboat to come along and become his tenants.
The neighbors — a group of computer savants and vegan activists committed to the study of human cognition,
most of them trans women — moved box trucks on his land.
It seemed like a win-win for the free-spirited Lind:
They needed a place to stay, and he had a dream of making a little money by transforming his ramshackle lot into cheap housing for artists, woodworkers and other “makers” who were being squeezed by Bay Area prices.
“We talked a lot, and I thought we were good friends,”
Lind said in a 2024 interview with The Times.
“They were going to stay at my yard for four months.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-23/vegan-computer-savant-zizians-linked-to-deaths-across-u-s