You know, I’ll never be accused of being a fan of the cockroach. Indeed, I kind of wish they would keep to themselves and never pop up in my space. That being said, this is some genuinely messed up stuff. This is a DIY controlled cockroach. Use your ‘smart’ phone to control the creatures movements.

It’s the same old tired refrain: every other creature on this planet is nothing more than a product to be sold, a commodity to serve our own stupid, trite, and basically, nihilistic ends.

Here’s a link to the story.

If in our cultural consumerist epoch this is where science is leading us, then abandon all hope, ye who enter here.