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Chris Kluwe

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Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?

I’m running for California State Assembly!

Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

I had to share a room when we were presenting ToTG at GenCon back when it came out (we were on our own budget)

I was unpleased.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Right?! You get to sprawl out in the bed, you probably don’t have to set your alarm until 10, it’s fantastic

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

*leans seductively by the mini-fridge*

“So, uh, babe,” tugs collar, “how YOU doin’?”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Oh I feel the same, hence why I’m running for office to try and make sure that doesn’t happen

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

You are preaching to the choir, brother

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

My “this will get me cancelled by the political elites” take is that every single US president should have to submit to the judgement of the ICC at the end of their term

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Absofuckinglutely

If we cannot protect the smallest group among us, we’re not willing to protect anything

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

If you think they’re not going to take this all the way no matter what then I have a bridge and some swampland I’d love to sell you

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

It stops when we actually follow the rule of law

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Oh it’s a very begrudging love, don’t get me wrong, it’s the “your STUPID fucking ass FINALLY managed to contribute something useful, and I SWEAR to EVERYTHING I will kick your ass to the MOON if you fuck this up AGAIN” kind of love

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

You’re not wrong

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Oh that’s easy, you just say “we are hereby revoking all pardons issued under the unconstitutional rule of Donald Trump and we’re also getting rid of the presidential pardon altogether because we DON’T HAVE KINGS”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

I just, I cannot fathom the mindset in someone who is supposed to be a GROWN ASS ADULT who thinks “hur hur I’ll just make her stay in *my* room” and not want to punch myself in the dick until I die

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

Well, issuing a statement is more than what he’s done before, and this is a promise to voters to hold people accountable. We’ll see if he backs it up once able to do so

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

I think he’s finally realizing that “oh shit I better do something about this or they’re for sure gonna arrest me too and/or I’m gonna get primaried SO hard”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

Oh yeah, I’m definitely waiting for the action to back up the words, and if it doesn’t happen I’ll be letting them know that’s not acceptable

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

Unfortunately, I live literally on the other side of the country :/

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

We sound legitimately crazy when trying to describe how we got here, but it’s how we got here! It all happened!!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

I would argue he is, in fact, doing it wrong, because he is focused on kicking the football instead of giving the goodest dog some scritches

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

I give shit to Jeffries (and Schumer) when they suck, so it’s also important to recognize when they’re doing it right.

This is doing it right. More of this, indeed. *Everyone* involved in the corruption of this administration MUST face consequences for their actions.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

You owe me $100 for putting that on my timeline

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
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$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

Always have been

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15h

Everything old is new again