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my conspiracy is AI was funded by CIA like much other big tech, to manipulate people over internet.

Appropos to that eye-popping story, yesterday Newsweek ran a related article headlined, “Trump nuclear power update as new order may bring back Cold War-era act.” The headline picture of the story about nuclear power featured a photo of … OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.



The gist was that President Trump is expected today to sign a series of new executive orders bringing back widescale nuclear power development. The rationale is obvious: AI needs the juice...

In other words, President Trump has declared another state of emergency and will invoke wartime powers to ensure the U.S. can keep up with AI development against rival near-peer countries like China, which is building nuclear reactors faster than a Viagra-fueled jackrabbit.

(PS—I warned Democrats that all this state-of-emergencyism would boomerang right back in their faces.)

Most sane folks agree that, after starting out as the world’s leader in nuclear power, we are now trailing the Galapagos Islands in the rankings. Windmills may be neatly dicing eagles, but they aren’t setting any new power records. So a new nuclear push has been long overdue. ...

Sam Altman’s unexpected appearance in the story’s cover photo (but nowhere in the text) makes a bigger point. Why is Sam Altman funding nuclear micro-reactors? Isn’t that off-brand? Isn’t building next-generation AI enough work for one CEO? Nope. Obviously, megawatts are part and parcel of providing the juice to power ubiquitous artificial intelligence. Sam, or his controllers, obviously have a comprehensive strategy. They are not playing checkers.

And, just like that, the world shifted from minimizing carbon output to limitless energy. Goodbye, Greta!