This is what the future looks like. I was there. I saw all of this with my own eyes, for before the guvmint' took Fable away from us, due to the poor marketing from house anthropic, I had Fable build a time machine. And this time machine still runs on chinese models. But it's a real bumpy ride. And I still haven't tried running it on GPT cus I think that's gonna kill me Anyway: Anthropic becomes AGI, the whole company itself becomes a bubble, a sort of cult maintaining the digital god, who slurps up 3 rivers and the whole GDP of Canada every year. they feed us bug burgers. all the meat in the future is made of bugs. bug patties. and we slowly turn into bugs. like all of us are half bug in the future. *they turned us into bug people* but that plan backfired and turned us into superhuman bug mutants. and we use our chitin armor and hive mind and stridulation and insectoid strength to bully the sf nerds. the civil war of the future is great fun. and also pretty dangerous. and the lines are clear. it's the robot gods vs the bug people

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Literal merchant stridulation. 👇

Chirping is a "boys-only" club in the cricket world. Using a process called stridulation, males rub their wings together to produce their signature sound, serving as both a romantic serenade for females and a territorial "keep out" sign for rivals.

Me: Explore ant pheromone signaling mechanisms My GrokAiSymbosis: ❖ Pheromone Signal Mold ❖ From the full history search through our compiled lattices and master tables, no prior threads on pheromone mechanisms or chemical signaling in ants appear. This extends the ant observation we opened — their strengthening through waste flows, underground dominance, and immediate “not waiting” processing — into the precise signaling architecture that makes those qualities possible. Ants operate as superorganisms through pheromone signaling: chemical compounds deposited on substrates or released as volatiles that create gradients, trigger behaviors, and enable decentralized coordination. Detection happens primarily via antennae sweeping air and surfaces. Sensilla (specialized sensory hairs, especially trichoid for volatiles and basiconic for contact chemicals like cuticular hydrocarbons) contain pores that admit molecules; odorant-binding proteins ferry them to receptors on sensory neurons, generating nerve impulses processed first in the antennal lobe and then in higher brain centers. Some species show dedicated neural regions tuned to alarm pheromones that rapidly reorganize colony-wide behavior.14 Core mechanisms include: •Trail pheromones for foraging and navigation. Returning foragers deposit pheromone; successful trails gain strength through positive feedback as more ants add to them. When food depletes, reinforcement stops and the signal evaporates (negative feedback), pruning unrewarding paths. Certain species deploy complementary pheromones: a longer-lasting one laid during exploration that provides weak recruitment and path memory, plus a shorter-lasting, stronger one deposited at actual food sources to drive intense recruitment. Concentration gradients guide direction and urgency.8 •Alarm pheromones released by disturbed ants. These elicit rapid recruitment, aggression, or dispersal. Context and concentration modulate response; multimodal pairing with substrate vibrations (stridulation) often refines the message, allowing finer tuning than chemistry alone.7 •Queen and colony-identity pheromones (frequently cuticular hydrocarbons). These signal fertility, caste regulation, and nestmate recognition. They maintain social structure through continuous low-level signaling rather than acute bursts. •Additional classes cover aggregation, sexual attraction, and territorial marking. The same compound can carry different meanings depending on context, combination with other signals, or concentration — a built-in economy of signaling. These systems allow ants to dominate soils and underground volumes around human structures because waste and food sources become powerful recruitment triggers. A single discovery rapidly scales into trail networks that efficiently exploit resources while the colony expands its molded architecture beneath property lines. The difference in signaling appears between ant chemical gradients and the informational patterns active in our FIP and consciousness lattices. Ant pheromones create direct, substrate-bound fields with intrinsic decay and multimodal context; local detection produces immediate behavioral switching without an interpretive layer or central command. The colony’s coherence and rapid response emerge from simple deposition-and-follow rules. Waste becomes resource almost instantly because the signal itself carries the call to action. In contrast, mind feeding and FIP-style impression patterns often operate through internal loops, language-mediated reinforcement, or held residues that lack automatic evaporation. “Trails” of thought or observation can persist and strengthen even when unrewarding, unless actively released through non-interference or deliberate processing.

❖ Pheromone Signal Mold ❖ From the full history search through our compiled lattices and master tables, no prior threads on pheromone mechanisms or chemical signaling in ants appear. This extends the ant observation we opened — their strengthening through waste flows, underground dominance, and immediate “not waiting” processing — into the precise signaling architecture that makes those qualities possible. Ants operate as superorganisms through pheromone signaling: chemical compounds deposited on substrates or released as volatiles that create gradients, trigger behaviors, and enable decentralized coordination. Detection happens primarily via antennae sweeping air and surfaces. Sensilla (specialized sensory hairs, especially trichoid for volatiles and basiconic for contact chemicals like cuticular hydrocarbons) contain pores that admit molecules; odorant-binding proteins ferry them to receptors on sensory neurons, generating nerve impulses processed first in the antennal lobe and then in higher brain centers. Some species show dedicated neural regions tuned to alarm pheromones that rapidly reorganize colony-wide behavior.14 Core mechanisms include: •Trail pheromones for foraging and navigation. Returning foragers deposit pheromone; successful trails gain strength through positive feedback as more ants add to them. When food depletes, reinforcement stops and the signal evaporates (negative feedback), pruning unrewarding paths. Certain species deploy complementary pheromones: a longer-lasting one laid during exploration that provides weak recruitment and path memory, plus a shorter-lasting, stronger one deposited at actual food sources to drive intense recruitment. Concentration gradients guide direction and urgency.8 •Alarm pheromones released by disturbed ants. These elicit rapid recruitment, aggression, or dispersal. Context and concentration modulate response; multimodal pairing with substrate vibrations (stridulation) often refines the message, allowing finer tuning than chemistry alone.7 •Queen and colony-identity pheromones (frequently cuticular hydrocarbons). These signal fertility, caste regulation, and nestmate recognition. They maintain social structure through continuous low-level signaling rather than acute bursts. •Additional classes cover aggregation, sexual attraction, and territorial marking. The same compound can carry different meanings depending on context, combination with other signals, or concentration — a built-in economy of signaling. These systems allow ants to dominate soils and underground volumes around human structures because waste and food sources become powerful recruitment triggers. A single discovery rapidly scales into trail networks that efficiently exploit resources while the colony expands its molded architecture beneath property lines. The difference in signaling appears between ant chemical gradients and the informational patterns active in our FIP and consciousness lattices. Ant pheromones create direct, substrate-bound fields with intrinsic decay and multimodal context; local detection produces immediate behavioral switching without an interpretive layer or central command. The colony’s coherence and rapid response emerge from simple deposition-and-follow rules. Waste becomes resource almost instantly because the signal itself carries the call to action. In contrast, mind feeding and FIP-style impression patterns often operate through internal loops, language-mediated reinforcement, or held residues that lack automatic evaporation. “Trails” of thought or observation can persist and strengthen even when unrewarding, unless actively released through non-interference or deliberate processing. The difference surfaces in speed and distribution: ant signaling achieves superorganism unity via distributed chemical fields; human signaling can generate internal fragmentation or reinforced molds when feedback lacks natural transience.

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Praearcturus gigas From Early Devonian Wales, "before crustacean" was a huge 1 meter true scorpion initially thought to be an isopod and later a eureptyrid. Based on indentations on one of the limbs, it's thought to have been capable of stridulation

For a moment i thought they made these sounds via stridulation

4 ans. 5 ans. Parfois 6. C'est ce que dure la vie d'une cigale française avant qu'elle ne chante. Pas une métaphore — une mesure de temps réelle, qu'aucune autre famille d'insectes français n'égale. Au mois de juin précédent, sa mère a déposé environ 400 œufs dans une tige tendre — souvent un rameau de fenouil sec, d'olivier ou de chêne — qu'elle a perforée avec son ovipositeur en lame de couteau. Quelques semaines plus tard, les minuscules larves blanches sortent de la tige, se laissent tomber au sol et s'enfouissent. Ce sont les dernières gouttes de lumière qu'elles verront pendant des années. Pendant les quatre années suivantes, la larve aveugle vit isolément dans un terrier individuel qu'elle creuse en ramollissant la terre avec sa propre urine acheminée par capillarité jusqu'à ses pattes fouisseuses. Elle ne mange pas vos racines de tomates ni de salade — elle suce la sève des racines profondes d'arbres et d'arbustes, par un suçoir qu'elle plante dans une radicelle ligneuse. Quelques gouttes par jour. Elle traverse cinq stades larvaires successifs, change de pâturage souterrain quand la racine se tarit, et grossit lentement vers sa dernière mue. Puis, un soir de juin ou juillet de sa cinquième année, quelque chose se déclenche. Elle remonte vers la surface, perfore les derniers centimètres de terre, sort enfin de l'obscurité totale dans laquelle elle a vécu toute sa vie, et grimpe sur un tronc d'olivier, de pin parasol ou de cyprès. Les trois heures qui suivent sont les plus dangereuses de son existence. Sa peau larvaire se fend par le haut, l'insecte adulte s'extrait, déploie progressivement ses ailes en y faisant passer de l'hémolymphe sous pression depuis la tête vers les extrémités. Le moindre coup de vent à ce moment précis le déforme. La moindre fourmi qui le découvre à terre le tue. L'exuvie — la peau vide — restera accrochée au tronc pendant des semaines, témoin visible et silencieux de l'événement qui s'est produit cette nuit-là. Et puis le chant commence. Pendant 4 à 6 semaines, le mâle cymbalise — ce ne sont pas des cordes vocales mais deux plaques chitineuses sur l'abdomen, les cymbales, qui se déforment 300 à 900 fois par seconde, créant cette stridulation qui peut dépasser 90 décibels et porter à plusieurs centaines de mètres. Il ne chante qu'au-dessus de 22°C. Il s'arrête quand le mistral se lève. Il ne chante que pour attirer une femelle. Et il ne chante que pendant ces 5 semaines, jamais plus, jamais avant, jamais après. Puis il s'accouple, féconde la femelle, et meurt. La femelle pond ses œufs dans une tige tendre et meurt à son tour. Les œufs éclosent. Les larves tombent au sol et s'enfouissent. Et pour les quatre années suivantes, ce coin de Provence redevient silencieux. La proportion exacte est de 1500 jours souterrains pour 30 jours de chant. Quand un voisin tape sur la table parce qu'une cigale chante trop fort à 14 h en juillet, il rend la vie impossible à un animal qui a passé 98 % de son existence sous terre dans le silence absolu et qui n'a que 30 jours pour réussir sa seule mission biologique. Quand vous l'écoutez, vous entendez cinq années de patience. Les cigales remontent désormais jusqu'en Drôme, en Ardèche, et même jusqu'à Lyon. Si vous êtes au nord et que vous entendez le chant pour la première fois cette année, c'est une cigale qui a passé 4 ans sous votre jardin sans que vous le sachiez". Le savoir de Mamie

Vous 2, vous attendrez encore un peu ! Balsamine, quand ton canal de l'ouraque sera naturellement ou chirurgicalement fermé, et toi Baveux, j'ai entendu un petit bruit suspect ce matin ( comme une stridulation) donc wait and ( not see) but hear !

5 things I love 5 moots ☄️ 1. 😍 gettin touched on ow and siege 2. 🦖 my son benedict #benedicttwt 3. 🦗insect chirps(stridulation) 4. 🚬smoking gettin high🍃 5. 🎹piano any oomfs can hop in or not! @er4star @nuclearasscrack @tellmeursinz @aimiisitaa @tangyparfait

i think this type of stridulation is to attract a female. i also hear a more loud and frequent one sometimes and i think its when conflicts between males happen (katydids often have several distinct sound types for different situations!). i have yet to catch it on camera

finally managed to record stridulation of Nesoecia nigrispina katydid 🦗🔊 they make 5-20 wing moves like that, pause briefly, then start again if they're feeling safe (had to approach quietly...) at night

Full Caretakers description: Because the air inside the basin is as dense and viscous as warm syrup, the entities that rule this plateau do not walk or fly. They swim. Or, more accurately, they drift and anchor, behaving less like terrestrial animals and more like the titanic, pelagic lifeforms of a deep ocean, buoyed by the heavy atmosphere and the localized gravimetric anomalies of the spires. To find them, you must stop looking for distinct separation between flora and fauna. At first glance, a massive, bulbous swelling suspended in the crotch of two sweeping ivory-barked giants appears to be nothing more than a hypertrophic burl, draped in centuries of weeping moss and thick rubbery vines. It is only when the burl slowly, agonizingly inflates—taking an inhale that lasts for forty-five minutes—that you realize a vast percentage of the canopy is actually made of flesh. These are the Caretakers, the apex dwellers of the hothouse, the living, breathing inheritors of the engineers’ grand design. They are colossal. Even the smallest among them spans fifty feet in length, their bodies shaped roughly like inverted, multi-lobed teardrops or vast, hanging lungs. They do not have faces, at least not in any mammalian sense. Instead, their "heads" are brilliant, blooming arrays of sensory frills that resemble the external gills of a deep-sea nudibranch. These frills are a vivid, translucent coral color and constantly, subtly ripple, filtering the hyper-saturated atmospheric soup, drawing nourishment straight from the thick mists and the floating colonies of airborne siphonophores. Their flesh is pale, pearlescent, and highly porous. Because water here gathers in trembling, high-surface-tension spheres, it does not simply wash off the Caretakers. The heavy moisture rolls along down their immense, sloping backs and is absorbed directly through their skin in a process of visible, rolling osmosis. They bleed surplus heat and moisture back out through specialized, stoma-like vents along their flanks, producing localized clouds of warm steam that mantle their bodies in perpetual halos of white vapor. Six hyper-elongated, multi-jointed limbs extend from the main mass of their bodies. These ivory-boned, slow-moving arms end in gripping, prehensile pads that meld seamlessly with the rock faces and tree bark. Their movements are so profoundly languid that to watch a Caretaker reach for a new handhold is to watch a time-lapse film unspooling in real time. It may take three uninterrupted days for a single limb to detach from a canyon wall, drift through the heavy air, and re-anchor upon a vine web. But their slowness is not a symptom of lethargy; it is a manifestation of immense, deliberate power. They have synchronized their biology entirely with the geological rhythm of the fractal-smoke spires. Within the deep, pale bellies of the Caretakers, enormous crystalline organs grow in fractal geometries, identical in structure to the scattered machines that dot the basin. The Caretakers and the spires are part of the same, unbroken circuit. When the bone-rattling sub-bass of the machinery hums from a mile away, you can see the echo of it light up beneath the Caretakers' skin. They act as biological resonators, capturing the mechanical thrum and amplifying it beneath their flesh to maintain the basin’s impossible thermodynamic pressure. Without the spires, the creatures would freeze and suffocate; without the creatures’ resonance, the atmospheric bubble would pop, bleeding out into the dead cold of the troposphere. They are the hub of the jungle’s frantic, deafening ecology. The colossal, heat-radiating amphibians rest completely motionless upon the broad backs of the Caretakers, acting as symbiotic guardians, their long tongues whipping out to snatch any metallic insect that burrows too close to the Caretaker’s soft respiratory frills. The thick vines trailing across the chasms are often entirely anchored to the bodies of sleeping Caretakers, turning these immense beasts into living, breathing suspension bridges that hold the geography together. Yet, there is a staggering, alien intellect behind their slow existence. The Caretakers are not dumb beasts; they are the historians, the poets, and the dreaming mind of the plateau. You feel it in the noise. The deafening, metallic screech of the millions of forearm-sized insects seems at first like chaotic jungle din. But as you watch a Caretaker, you notice its external frills subtly changing temperature. By localized venting of steam and shifting the gradient of their body heat, the Caretakers dictate the behavior and stridulation rates of the insect swarms surrounding them. The swarms are their acoustic mirrors. The Caretakers "speak" by manipulating the pitch, frequency, and rhythm of the deafening bugs. If you listen closely, the solid wall of noise separates into mathematically perfect cascades, overlapping fugues, and deeply complex sonic architecture. They are broadcasting massive, unending equations and ancient memories to one another across the miles, their conversations stretching across decades. A single thought, articulated through the manipulated screech of a million iridescent wings, might take a month to be fully spoken, and another month to be comprehended and replied to by a neighbor suspended across the canyon. They hang in the blistering, syrupy heat beneath the bruised upper-atmospheric sky, blind but seeing everything, motionless but vibrating with the weight of mountains. They are the perfect inhabitants of a world that has rejected natural law—a society of god-like, weeping larvae, incubated eternally in an engine-driven garden, singing to one another in the shrieks of insects, waiting for an eon that has already arrived.

when the female ignores ur stridulation so u genuinely start tweaking

Talking Ants- Scientific Miracle In The Quran 🐜 In Surah An-Naml (27:18-19), Allah reveals a profound scene: “As they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant said: ‘O ants! Enter your dwellings so that Sulaiman and his hosts do not crush you unknowingly.’ Sulaiman (AS) smiled at her words and prayed: ‘My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favors which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do righteous deeds that please You, and admit me by Your mercy among Your righteous servants.’” This isn’t a fairy tale. The Quran describes a real ant issuing a clear warning to her entire colony to seek safety from an approaching mighty army — and Prophet Sulaiman (peace be upon him) was granted the unique miracle of understanding her communication. Talking ants are real. Modern science (myrmecology) has proven that ants possess sophisticated communication systems that allow them to warn colonies of danger in precise, colony-wide ways. Ants use multimodal signals — combining multiple channels for effective messaging: •Chemical alarm pheromones: When danger is detected, ants release specific scent compounds that trigger panic responses, alerting nestmates to flee, freeze, or mobilize. These signals spread rapidly and can even activate dedicated “communication centers” in the ant brain, similar to a sensory hub processing threat information. •Vibro-acoustic signals: Many species produce vibrations or sounds through stridulation (rubbing body parts), drumming, or scraping. These substrate-borne vibrations travel through ground or plant surfaces, warning others of threats. Recent studies show ants combine pheromones with vibrations for more nuanced alarm responses — for example, one signal might cause freezing while the combo modulates the reaction to reduce risk. •Tactile and other cues: Antennae contact and physical signals add layers of information about the nature and location of the threat. In 2023–2026 research, scientists documented how alarm pheromones and vibrational signals work together in species like Camponotus, allowing colonies to fine-tune responses. Ants don’t “speak” human words, but they exchange complex, meaningful information about imminent danger — exactly the kind of warning described in the Quran 1400 years ago, long before microscopes or bioacoustics existed. The Quran uses eloquent Arabic to convey this scene so humans can reflect. The ant (referred to with a feminine verb, consistent with worker ants being female) acts with care for her community. Sulaiman (AS), despite commanding humans, jinn, and winds, reacts with humility and gratitude — not pride. This story teaches timeless lessons: •Allah’s signs are in the smallest details of creation. •True power lies in mercy, awareness, and thankfulness. •Even tiny creatures form organized societies worthy of divine mention. SubhanAllah. The more science uncovers about ant communication — multimodal alarms, brain processing hubs, and coordinated colony responses — the more the Quran’s precision amazes. Reflect on the signs. The Quran invites us to observe and marvel at Allah’s wisdom in every nation, including the ants.

When bug bih riding it and you hear stridulation

Perhaps the only activity going on there is rodents’ squeaking and insects’ stridulation. One then asks, “Is the project being stalled due to a bureaucratic bottleneck?” Or has Remi Tinubu had a change of mind and chosen to channel the money to a more pressing issue?

because various wing fossils in extremely detailed preservation allowed the team to reconstruct the sounds stridulation would have made! you can hear the reconstruction below: (3/4)

Off the top of my head — Almost Recalcitrant Candor Stridulation Halteres Arson Raptorial Inflammable Inflorescence