Now I wish I was a time traveler, so I could make Socrates my best frenemy. 😥 Alas!

This is perfection. 👌🏼 #LouvreHeist

My friend: Did you just call Plato a ding dong? Me: Nooo, I called Socrates a ding dong, bc he is. 😹😹😹

And if I recall correctly, it’s the only known ice age cave with images of sea creatures. #archaeology #UpperPaleolothic

Portrait of Baroness Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28576

Sometimes I think about legally changing my name to Luc Lapin, which is a little joke—lapin is French for rabbit, I was born in Year of the Rabbit, and I could sign my name with two lowercase cursive l's, which would look like bunny ears. I hadn't considered a new accent and backstory, as well. 🤔

How do you know what it's like to be you?

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

In a grim world, some good things continue, such as the annual @princetonupress.bsky.social 70% off sale. press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

*This* is Salvador Dalí?! 🫨 (It is. I looked it up.)

And speaking of #cannabis, Carl Sagan, writing as Mr. X, shared his perspective on it in this essay included in Grinspoon's book Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). I'd read it before, but it was interesting to revisit with new questions about how cannabis experiences overlap with psychedelic ones.

I'm so fascinated by this, because what was actually happening to her? Surely she wasn't *really* levitating. 🤔 publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-re...

I've been learning a lot about cannabis for the last week or two, since I didn't really know anything about it, and now I finally understand why my grad school buddy had a gigantic butane torch in his apartment. 😹😹😹

Aesthetic experiences enhances creativity by dynamically reconfiguring five major brain networks; creativity emerges from network-level coordination—I think this has a lot of relevance to #psychedelic research, too. Abstract ⬇️ #aesthetics #creativity #neuroscience doi.org/10.1186/s400...

Well, the Instagram algorithm has decided I'm a gay zillionaire daddy and has been showing me ads for the gay zillionaire daddy demographic—which is not quite the manifestation I was hoping for, but I'll take the win. 😹

The idea of #philosophy as politically neutral is a pretty silly one. But I do think more people are interested in engaging with philosophy than may appear to be the case, but are often bogged down by arcane language and proofs—then they give up. The issue is accessibility. ⬇️

Somewhat adjacent to my last post—this little book is what initially sparked my interest in #psychedelics as an #archaeology undergrad who wanted to study ice age cave paintings in Europe. Their descriptions of altered states are a little, ah, naïve, but I didn't know that at the time. ⬇️

Really interesting—especially "Liam's" comparison of his dark therapy experience to the DMT flash (pp. 11–12). Abstract ⬇️ (As an aside, I've always been really curious about what a strong psilocybin experience would be like in a cave.) #darktherapy #darkness #spirituality doi.org/10.1177/0084...

That Strange Reflection 2025 28x22" Acrylic on canvas

Now this is #Dalí realism I can get behind.

This actually pretty heartbreaking song is stuck in my head this morning. #PostMalone #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Ww...

Well, I've had coffee by now, and while I think this painting is technically excellent, I personally still don't think it's very interesting—although I'm willing to concede that maybe it's not very interesting bc it doesn't really conform to my own expectations of the "typical" Dalí painting. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Dang I wanna learn physics for optimal tofu pressing 😹

If you ask me the problem here in Göbekli Tepe is that the kids spend too much time concerned with “aura farming” and not nearly enough time with “aurochs farming.”

Gonna be honest—it's a Salvador Dalí, sure, but it's giving "started out at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and is now on clearance at a Tuesday Morning in Omaha, Nebraska." It's red delicious art. (Maybe I'll reassess after I've had some coffee. Lol)

Vertigo

You're telling me this is almost 30 years old? 😮 Stfu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5u...

Coyotes on the lakefront, flying squirrels in the trees. 7 people in the woods after sunset. Entities called wavy-lined emeralds, pale beauties, tufted apple buds. The Mothman? Wolves in Pilsen?? For @chicagoreader.com, my story on the city's nocturnal wildlife. chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...

I tend to stay mostly on the bookish, artsy, and academic-y side of the Internet, but I've been venturing into the SEOed web over the last week, and boy what a drag that's been. Bots + generic content + monetization of everything + SEO really is a recipe for a dead Internet. 😵

So, I’m all alone in my house except for the dogs and cats, not listening to anything, and a little earlier, I distinctly heard a small voice near me say, “What are you doing?” 😵‍💫

Oh! I nearly forgot! Italo #Calvino (my absolute favorite writer) would have been 102 today! Here's a delightful reading of one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories (my absolute favorite stories), "The Distance of the Moon." #ItaloCalvino www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojma...

A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: A Free Course That Explores Philosophy from Ancient Greece to Modern Times

Kinda long, kinda dry—but it presents a unifying/testable framework connecting psychedelic science to "mainstream" psychotherapy research and methods in an attempt to pin down what, exactly, altered states catalyze. Abstract ⬇️ #psychedelics #psychology doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

I think mystical experiences are mystical experiences regardless of what mediates them (psychedelics, prayer, meditation, etc.), and all mystical experiences are going to be interpreted through one's own ontological lens anyway. Too much gatekeeping going on. Abstract ⬇️ #psychedelics

One good use of #AI integration would be in @zotero.org, so that I could just drop everything into it, and it would *just figure it out* correctly without me having to go back and fix stuff all the time. 😵‍💫

This interview with Andres Gomez-Emilsson is about 45 minutes too long and the title is misleading, but there are some interesting tidbits, observations, and speculation about the #phenomenology of #psychedelic experiences here. #psychedelics #DMT #5MeODMT #psilocybin

I'm predicting that Karim Diané's character in #StarfleetAcademy, Jay-Den Kraag, will be the first gay Klingon in #StarTrek. (Possibly.) youtu.be/PAGzRczDYpc

Such a great video if you have about 34 minutes. I wish I understood it a little better. I'm actually really mad that no one pushed me to learn #math (and logic) beyond very basic algebra as a kid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX...

🤷🏻‍♂️ I do what I want.

Rothko is so magical 😮

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Apart from the occasional margarita or infrequently deciding that I "should get into wine" (which never lasts long), I don't really drink #alcohol. I don't like the way it makes me feel. I can't imagine #writing drunk, and a hangover is a no from me. yalereview.org/article/cros...

For spooky season! 🎃 "How are the life histories of witches distinguished from the lives of other objects involved in ritual activities?" Abstract ⬇️ This is very long and archaeological theory-heavy, but very good, too. #witches #ritual #archaeology #prehistory

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

I had a headache all day yesterday and went to bed at 8:30. This is why I'd rather just live with ADHD as I always have than try to manage it with stimulants. 😵‍💫

It’s 3:45 a.m. and I can’t sleep and my head hurts. I knew this would happen. 😩

A book I just started begins with the author recounting driving down from the peak of Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaiʻi Island, which I have done, in the most ridiculous terms, as if he were about to careen off the edge at any moment. Bro, give me a break you liar. You were not. It’s not like that. 😹😹

This request is really for everyone. Most of mine are in boxes or storage currently. This is a pic of my wonderful high-rise apartment in #Chicago that I miss terribly.