Likewar and the Weird National Security Implications of Musk's Twitter Takeover
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
I’m sorry, we have to talk about Elon Musk one more time. Or, as Jason said. “Twitter: Now With More Musk!”
But seriously. This episode is about more than Musk. It’s about how conflict has gotten … weird. We start with a conversation about a new podcast about the weird future of war. Then we asked one question about Musk and things spiraled out of control.
Has conflict gotten …weirder? Have the lines gotten blurrier? Why are cartoon Shiba Inu dogs yelling at Russian officials online? Why is the JAVELIN weapons system a saint? Why does that HIMARS system look … horny? When is an innocent meme not an innocent meme and what has the internet done to the way we fight?
War … was has changed. Shitposts, disinformation, trolls farms in Macedonia, and Telegram channels full of gore videos that would make the average Ogrish visitor weep. (That was for you very old heads)
So much of this feels like war …. Not exactly war but … something close. If only there were a podcast that explored these various phenomena and explained the recent origin of them.
Well … it just so happens there is. It’s called LikeWar and returning guest Peter W. Singer is one of its hosts. He’s here with us today to talk about the show.
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| 0:25.0 | Frankly, that seems to be the problem. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Angry Planet. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, and to angry planet. I'm Matthew Gault. And I'm Jason Fields. |
| 0:47.0 | Has conflict gotten weirder? Have the lines gotten blurier? |
| 0:52.0 | Why are cartoon sheba dogs yelling at Russian officials online? |
| 0:56.0 | Why is the javelin weapon system a saint? |
| 0:58.0 | Why is the Hymar system look horny? |
| 1:02.0 | When is an innocent meme not an innocent meme and what has the |
| 1:05.2 | internet done to the way we fight? War has changed. Shit post dis-din information, |
| 1:12.3 | troll farms in Macedonia, and telegram channels full of gore videos that would make the average |
| 1:16.6 | ogrish visitor weep. That was for you old internet heads. So much of war now feels not exactly war, but something close. If only there were a |
| 1:28.4 | podcast that explored these various phenomena and explained the recent origins of them. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, it just so happens that there is. |
| 1:36.4 | It's called like war and returning guest Peter W Singer is one of its hosts. |
| 1:40.8 | He's here with us today to talk about the show. |
| 1:43.4 | Peter, thank you so much for coming on to Angry Planet. |
| 1:47.1 | Thank you for having me and wow, I wish I had answers to all of those questions. |
| 1:52.4 | Man, although it made me think of the video game though where it said |
| 1:56.1 | war. |
| 1:57.1 | Follow. |
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